Quenya 

coirëa

adjective. living, living, [ᴱQ.] lively, alive

An adjective for “living” appearing in notes from the 1950s as part of the phrase Q. coirëa quenya “living speech” (PM/399).

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. koirea “alive, lively” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√KOẎO “have life” (QL/48).

Derivations

  • √KOY “*live, have life, [ᴹ√] live, have life”

Element in

coirëa

living

coirëa adj. "living" (glossed "alive" in LT1:257); coirëa quenya "living speech" (PM:399, VT49:42)

coirë

stirring

coirë noun "stirring", in the calendar of Imladris a precisely defined period of 54 days (Appendix D), but translated "the first day of Spring" in the Silmarillion Appendix (SA:cuivië). Early "Qenya" has coirë ("k")"life" (LT1:257; in Tolkien's later Quenya, the word for "life" is cuilë or coivië; however, cf. the adj. coirëa from a late source).