mairëa adj. "beautiful" (of things made by art) (PE17:163). An alternative (and peculiar) form "mairia" is also implied in the source.
Quenya
calwa
beautiful
mairëa
beautiful
vanima
beautiful, fair
vanima adj. "beautiful, fair" (BAN, VT39:14) (glossed "proper, right, fair" in early "Qenya", LT1:272, though a later source says the word is used "only of living things, especially Elves and Men", PE17:150); nominal pl. vanimar "beautiful ones", partitive pl. genitive vanimálion, translated "of beautiful children", but literally meaning *"of [some] beautiful ones") (LotR3:VI ch. 6, translated in Letters:308). Arwen vanimalda "Beautiful Arwen", literally "Arwen your beauty" (see -lda for reference; changed to Arwen vanimelda in the second edition of LotR; see vanimelda).
vanima
adjective. beautiful
mírya
beautiful
mírya adj. "beautiful" (of work of art only) (PE17:165)
calwa
adjective. lurid
Derivations
- √KAL “light; shine, be bright, light; shine, be bright, [ᴱ√] shine golden”
calwa ("k") adj. "beautiful" (LT1:254)