Sindarin
alw
wholesome
alw
adjective. wholesome
raud
lofty
taer
lofty
adj. lofty. Q. tāra.
taer
adjective. lofty, lofty, *high
Cognates
- Q. tára “lofty, tall, high” ✧ PE17/186; PE17/186
Derivations
Element in
- S. Targon
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tagra > taer [taɣra] > [tagra] > [taɣra] > [taira] > [tair] > [taer] ✧ PE17/186
alu Reconstructed
adjective. wholesome, wholesome, *healthy
An adjective appearing as alw “wholesome” derived from √AL “good” in notes from around 1959, along with a plural form ely (PE17/146).
Neo-Sindarin: This root was sometimes associated with physical health (PE17/149), so I would interpret this word as “wholesome” in the sense “healthy” as well as morally good. The usual Neo-Sindarin rendering of this word would be alu instead of alw.
Conceptual Development: There was a similar word G. {awl >>} alw or alweg in Gnomish Lexicon Slips from the 1910s, but there it was glossed “lofty, of living things: trees, men” and derived from primitive ᴱ√✶alwa (PE13/109), thus probably based from the early root ᴱ√ALA “spread” (QL/29).
Derivations
- √AL(A) “good (physically), blessed, fortunate, prosperous, health(y)” ✧ PE17/146
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √AL > alw [alwa] > [alw] > [alu] ✧ PE17/146 Variations
- alw ✧ PE17/146
orchall
lofty
(superior, eminent), pl. erchail (for archaic örchail)
arth
lofty
1) arth (noble, exalted), pl. erth, 2) brand (high, noble, fine), lenited vrand, pl. braind, 3) orchall (superior, eminent), pl. erchail (for archaic örchail), 4) taur (also tor-, tar- in compounds) (high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, mighty, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.
arth
lofty
(noble, exalted), pl. erth
taur
lofty
(also tor-, tar- in compounds) (high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, mighty, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.
brand
lofty
(high, noble, fine), lenited vrand, pl. braind
pl. ely _ adj. _wholesome.