alaquenta

well (happily) said

alaquenta adj. "well (happily) said" (PE17:146)

alaquenta

adjective. well (happily) said

Elements

Word	Gloss
al(a)-	“well, happily”
quet-	“to say, speak, tell, to say, speak, tell, [ᴱQ.] talk”

ala-

good

ala- (3), also al-, a prefix expressing "good" or "well" (PE17:146), as in alaquenta (q.v.) Whether Tolkien imagined this ending to coexist with the negative prefix of the same form (#2 above) is unclear and perhaps dubious.

mára

adjective. good

Amarië

good

Amarië fem. name; perhaps derived from mára "good" with prefixing of the stem-vowel and the feminine ending -ië (Silm)