12.73 Straight ᴹQ. téra adj. “straight, right, *correct” The Etymologies of the 1930s has ᴹQ. téra “straight, right” as a cognate to N. {tîr >>} taer, derived from {ᴹ✶tēra >>} ᴹ✶teñrā based on {ᴹ√TEƷ >>} ᴹ√TEÑ “line, direction” (Ety/TEƷ, TEÑ). Versions of the Lament of Atalante from the 1930s had
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Studies on selected elvish words to sort out their semantics.
Select Elvish Words: 12.72 Hollow, Concave
12.72 Hollow, Concave Q. náva adj. “hollow” A word for “hollow” derived from primitive ✶nābā implied by the name Návarot “Hollowbold” (WJ/389, 414). ᴱQ. rotse adj. “pipe, tube” The Qenya Lexicon had ᴱQ. rotse “pipe (tube)” and ᴱQ. rōta “tube, hollow cylinder”, both under the early root ᴱ√ROTO “hollow” (QL/80).
Select Elvish Words: 12.71 Flat
12.71 Flat ᴹQ. lára adj. “flat” An adjective for “flat” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from either ᴹ✶lāda or ᴹ✶dāla based on the root ᴹ√LAD or its variant ᴹ√DAL (Ety/DAL, LAD). Derivation from ᴹ✶dāla would require some kind of D/L variation, but that seems to be common in
Select Elvish Words: 12.67 Deep
12.67 Deep ᴹQ. núra adj. “deep” An adjective for “deep” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶nūrā under the root ᴹ√NUR of the same meaning (Ety/NUR). Q. orda adj. “profound” An adjective for “profound” in notes from 1968 based on the root √GOR “deep, profound” (NM/176). Q. tumbalë
Select Elvish Words: 12.65-12.66 Thin
12.65 Thin (in Dimension) Q. fimbë adj. “slim, slender” A word for “slim, slender” derived from the root √PHIM and cognate to S. fim of the same meaning (PE17/23). ᴹQ. ninde adj. “slender, *thin” A word for “slender” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√NIN-DI “fragile, thin”
Select Elvish Words: 12.64 Thick (in Density)
12.64 Thick (in Density) ⚠️Q. hyarna adj. “compact, [ᴹQ.] compressed” A word for “compact, compressed” appearing in both the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) from the 1940s and the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the early 1950s, a modern replacement of older hyanna which was the proper derivative of ancient
Select Elvish Words: 12.63 Thick (in Dimension)
12.63 Thick (in Dimension) ᴱQ. pulu- v. “to swell (intr.)” The verb ᴱQ. pulu- “swell (intr.)” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√PULU of the same meaning (QL/75). Neo-Quenya: I retain ᴺ√PUL “swell” as a root for purposes of Neo-Eldarin, so I would retain
Select Elvish Words: 12.62 Narrow
12.62 Narrow ᴹQ. arka adj. “narrow” An adjective for “narrow” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶akrā under the root ᴹ√AK “narrow, confined” (Ety/AK). Q. náha adj. “narrow, *thin” An adjective for “narrow” in 1964 notes on Dalath Dirnen (DD) derived from √NAKH “narrow, thin” (PE17/166). Neo-Quenya: For
Select Elvish Words: 12.61 Wide, Broad
12.61 Wide, Broad Q. landa adj. “wide, [ᴱQ.] broad” A word for “wide” appearing as an element in the compound landanóre “wide country” in the 1958 poem Löa Yucainen. ᴹQ. landa “wide” also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√LAD (Ety/LAD). Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. landa “wide,
Select Elvish Words: 12.59 Short
12.59 Short Q. nauca adj. “stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)” An adjective for “stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)” derived from the root √NUK of similar meaning, that was “especially applied to things that though in themselves full-grown were smaller or shorter than their kind, and were hard, twisted or ill-shapen” (PE17/45; VT39/7; WJ/413). It