-a

suffix. adjectival suffix

This suffix is frequently used to create the adjective form of a noun, especially in the form -ëa for nouns ending in -ë. This function dates back to CE. ✶-ā.

Derivations

• ✶-ā “adjectival”

Element in

• Q. airëa “holy (applied to persons)” ✧ PE17/149
• ᴺQ. aitalëa “reverent, worshipful, religious”
• Q. Aldëa “*Tuesday, Tree-day (Númenórean)”
• Q. amaurëa “dawn, early day, morning” ✧ MC/223
• Q. andúna “western”
• ᴺQ. aurëa “sunny, sunlit; *daytime”
• Q. endëa “middle”
• Q. eressëa “lonely” ✧ LotR/1116
• Q. fínëa “dexterous”
• Q. ilaurëa “*daily”
• Q. ilyarëa “*daily”
• Q. ilucara “omnificent” ✧ VT39/20
• Q. laurëa “golden (of hue)”
• Q. lillassëa “having many leaves”
• Q. lilótëa “having many flowers”
• Q. lómëa “shadowed, gloomy, shadowed, gloomy, *dusk-like”
• Q. mírëa “jewelled, jewelled, *gemmed”
• Q. nieninquëa “like a snowdrop” ✧ PE16/096
• Q. nöa “former; yesterday; tomorrow, yesterday; former, *previous; tomorrow”
• ᴺQ. nornolassëa “having oak-leaves”
• Q. núla “dark, occult, mysterious”
• Q. oialëa “eternal”
• Q. rávëa “roaring”
• Q. taurëa “forested”
• Q. túrëa “mighty, masterful, mighty, masterful, *having political power” ✧ PE17/115
• Q. úfanwëa “not veiled, unveiled”
• Q. úpahtëa “speechless”
• Q. vëa “seeming, apparent, seeming, apparent; [ᴱQ.] similar, like”
• Q. yaimëa “wailing”