(water vessel) calph (i galph, o chalph), pl. celph (i chelph). By another suggestion, if the word goes like alph "swan", the pl. forms could be ceilph (i cheilph).
Quenya
calpa
water-vessel
Sindarin
calph
noun. water-vessel
ylf
noun. drinking-vessel
calph
vessel
calph
vessel
(i galph, o chalph), pl. celph (i chelph). By another suggestion, if the word goes like alph "swan", the pl. forms could be ceilph (i cheilph).
calph
water vessel
calph (i galph, o chalph), pl. celph (i chelph). By another suggestion, if the word goes like alph "swan", the pl. forms could be ceilph (i cheilph).
calph
water vessel
(i galph, o chalph), pl. celph (i chelph). By another suggestion, if the word goes like alph "swan", the pl. forms could be ceilph (i cheilph).
calph
noun. water-vessel, [G.] bucket
Derivations
- ᴹ√KALPA “water-vessel”
rant
water-channel
(watercourse, stream; lode, vein), pl. raint (idh raint), coll. pl. rannath
Noldorin
calf
noun. water-vessel
A noun appearing as N. calf “water-vessel” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√KALPA of the same meaning (Ety/KALPA). The same word appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, but had the form and gloss G. calph “bucket” (GL/25).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would use the spelling ᴺS. calph to make the pronunciation clear, as suggested in HSD (HSD), since final f is generally pronounced [v] in Sindarin. Given its generic gloss “water-vessel”, I would use this word for any larger vessel for holding or carrying water.
Cognates
- ᴹQ. kalpa “water-vessel, bucket” ✧ Ety/KALPA
Derivations
- ᴹ√KALPA “water-vessel” ✧ Ety/KALPA
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KALPA > calf [kalpa] > [kalpʰa] > [kalɸa] > [kalfa] > [kalf] ✧ Ety/KALPA
calf
noun. water-vessel
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Middle Primitive Elvish
kalpa
root. water-vessel
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “water-vessel”, with derivatives ᴹQ. kalpa/N. calf “water-vessel, bucket”, as well as ᴹQ. kalpa- “draw water, scoop out, bale out” (Ety/KALPA). It is a later iteration of ᴱ√KḶPḶ from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “hold, contains (esp. of liquids)”, with functionally identical noun forms ᴱQ. kalpa/G. calph “bucket, vessel”, but a different verb form ᴱQ. kulp- due to variations in how syllabic ḷ developed in Early Qenya (QL/47; GL/25). It illustrates how early roots with syllabic consonants from the 1910s were sometimes transformed later into KALTA-stem roots.
Derivatives
Gnomish
calph
noun. bucket
Cognates
- Eq. kalpa “bucket, vessel”
Derivations
- ᴱ√KḶPḶ “hold, contains (esp. of liquids)”
calpa ("k") (1) noun "water-vessel" (KALPA), "bucket, vessel" (QL:47)