1.78 Weather
- ᴱQ. kalle n. “fair weather, clear sky, blue sky”
- ᴱQ. kalle “fair weather, clear sky, blue sky” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as a derivative of the root ᴱ√KALA “shine golden” (QL/44). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with gloss “fair weather” (PME/44).
Neo-Quenya: I think this word might be salvaged as ᴺQ. callë, since the later root √KAL was still associated with light, and this description of fair weather seems to boil down to “lightness”, as in the absense of obscuring clouds.
- ᴱQ. kalleva adj. “fair (weather or complexion)”
- ᴱQ. kalleva “fair (weather or complexion)” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon along with a variant ᴱQ. kallevoite, both adjectival forms of ᴱQ. kalle “fair weather” under the early root ᴱ√KALA “shine golden” (QL/44).
Neo-Quenya: I think this word might be salvaged as ᴺQ. calleva, since the later root √KAL was still associated with light, and this description of fair weather seems to boil down to “lightness”, as in the absense of obscuring clouds, and similarly for “fair complexion”.
- ᴱQ. lúre n. “dark weather, bad weather”
- This word appeared as ᴱQ. lūre “dark weather” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√LUVU; it had a stem form of {lūri- >>} lūre- (QL/57). It also appeared as lūre in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/57).
Neo-Quenya: A similar root √LUB “shadow, darkness” appeared in Tolkien’s later writings, so I think this word can be salvaged as ᴺQ. lúrë from primitive *lubrĭ. If so, it would be a rare example of the ancient br not undergoing metathesis to rb, but instead vocalizing before the following voiced consonant: *lubrĭ > luβre > lūre.
- ᴱQ. lúrea n. “overcast, dark [of weather]”
- ᴱQ. lūrea “dark, overcast” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as adjectival forms of ᴱQ. lūre “dark weather” (QL/57); the same form was mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “overcast, dark” (PME/57).
Neo-Quenya: I think this word might be salvaged as ᴺQ. lúrëa; see the entry on ᴺQ. lúrë for a possible revised etymology.
- G. glaim adj. “serene, clear, fair (espec. of weather)”
- An adjective in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as G. glaim “serene, clear, fair, espec. of weather” (GL/39), a cognate of ᴱQ. kalaina of similar meaning and hence based on the early root ᴱ√KALA¹ [*ᴱ√GALA] “shine golden” (QL/44).
Neo-Sindarin: I think G. glaim can be salvaged as ᴺS. glaen, since √GAL was still associated with light in Tolkien’s later writings, but I would derive it instead from the root ᴹ√GALAN “bright”, perhaps from *g(a)laina.
- G. glaimri n. “serenity, fair weather”
- A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as G. glaimri “serenity, fair weather”, an abstract noun form of G. glaim “serene, clear, fair (espec. of weather)” (GL/39).
Neo-Sindarin: If adapting this word to Neo-Sindarin, I would make it an abstract noun form based on Neo-Sindarin ᴺS. glaen “serene, fair (weather)”, hence: ᴺS. glaenas “serenity, fair weather”.
- G. lumbri n. “foul weather”
- A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as G. lumbri “foul weather”, an abstract elaboration of G. lum “[dark] cloud” (GL/55), based on the early root ᴱ√LUVU or ᴱ√LUB (LT1A/Luvier; QL/57; PME/57).
Neo-Sindarin: If adapting this word to Neo-Sindarin, I would revise it ᴺS. lummor, based on (hypothetical) primitive *lu(m)brĭ > lummṛ(e) > lummor, where *lu(m)brĭ is a strengthened variant of (hypothetical) primitive *lubrĭ that is my proposed basis for ᴺQ. lúrë “bad weather”. I think these derivations could remain valid since the root √LUB “shadow, darkness” survives in Tolkien’s later writings (PE17/168).