lauca

warm

lauca ("k")adj. "warm" (LAW)

lauca

adjective. *warm, [ᴹQ.] warm

Derivations

• √LAW “flourish (green), grow, flourish (green), grow, [ᴹ√] abound; warm”

Element in

• ᴺQ. hwestalauca “vapour”
• ᴺQ. laucata- “to heat up, warm”
• ᴺQ. laucehtelë “hot spring”
• ᴺQ. pellauca “lukewarm”

Variations

• lauca- ✧ PE18/093

usta-

burn

usta- vb. "burn" (transitive) (LT1:271, QL:98). This form reflects the stem USU listed in early material; however, since Tolkien seems to have changed it to UR later, we should perhaps read *urta- for usta-.

lauya

verb. flourish (green), grow

lauta-

verb. to warm

@@@ used in NQNT

Derivations

• ᴹ√LAW “warm; abound”

laucata-

verb. to heat up, warm

Elements

Word	Gloss
lauca	“*warm, [ᴹQ.] warm”

laug

adjective. warm

laug

warm

laug (pl. loeg)

laug

adjective. warm

laug

warm

(pl. loeg)

dosta

burn

dosta- (i dhosta, i nostar) (VT45:10-11; the source is obscure)

dosta

burn

(i dhosta, i nostar) (VT45:10-11; the source is obscure)

ora-

verb. to heat up

Derivations

• √UR “heat, be hot”

law

root. flourish (green), grow, flourish (green), grow, [ᴹ√] abound; warm

This root was variously connected to life and warmth throughout Tolkien’s life. The earliest iteration of the root was ᴱ√LAWA from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s whose meaning was described as “much same as KOẎO [have life], but used of a vegetable”; it had derivatives like ᴱQ. laule “life, mode of life”, ᴱQ. laute “living thing, (esp.) vegetable”, and ᴱQ. lauke “vegetable, plant (species)” (QL/52). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. lauth “a plant, herb” and G. laug “(of plants) alive, having sap, green, vigorous” (GL/53).

In The Etymologies of the 1930s it was glossed “warm” with derivatives ᴹQ. lauka and N. lhaug of the same meaning (Ety/LAW). In the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s it was glossed “abound” with a Quenya verb ᴹQ. lauta- of the same meaning (PE22/103).

The root √LAW appeared in notes from the late 1950s serving as the basis for Q. loa “sun-year”, originally with the sense ✶lawā “growing, blooming”; it was also explicitly connected to its extended form √LAWAR with the sense “golden colour” (PE17/159). Its final appearance in currently published materials was in some Late Notes on Verbs from 1969, where it was given as √LAW “flourish (green), grow” with derivative Q. lauya- of the same meaning (PE22/156).

Despite all these minor variations, the general meaning of the root was fairly stable, having mainly to do with life and flourishing (especially of plants), and also connected to warmth and sunlight, probably by association with its extended form √(G)LAWAR “golden colour or light”, which applied to sunshine among other things.

Derivatives

• ✶lawā “growing, blooming” ✧ PE17/159
  • Q. löa “(seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming” ✧ PE17/159; VT42/10
• Q. lauca “*warm, [ᴹQ.] warm”
• ᴺQ. laulë “mode of life, *lifestyle”
• Q. lauya- “to flourish (green), grow” ✧ PE22/156
• S. glaw “sunshine, sunshine; [N.] radiance” ✧ PE17/159

Element in

• √(G)LAWAR “golden light” ✧ PE17/159
• ᴺS. lóran “seasonal year, (lit.) growth-cycle”

lhaug

adjective. warm

lhaug

adjective. warm

An adjective appearing as N. lhaug “warm” in The Etymologies of the 1930s from primitive ᴹ✶lauka under the root ᴹ√LAW of the same meaning (Ety/LAW).

Conceptual Development: G. laug appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “(of plants) alive, having sap, green, vigorous” (GL/53), likely based on the early root ᴱ√LAWA having to do with the life of plants (QL/52).

Neo-Sindarin: This word is usually adapted as ᴺS. laug “warm” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, as suggested in HSD (HSD), since the unvoicing of initial l is not a feature of later Sindarin.

Cognates

• ᴹQ. lauka “warm” ✧ Ety/LAW

Derivations

• ᴹ✶lauka “warm” ✧ Ety/LAW
  • ᴹ√LAW “warm; abound” ✧ Ety/LAW

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶lauka > lhaug	[lauka] > [lǭka] > [louka] > [lauka] > [lauk] > [l̥auk] > [l̥aug]	✧ Ety/LAW