The green mound where the Two Trees of Valinor stood (S/38). This name is a compound of coron “mound” and lairë “summer”, with the n assimilated to the l. It is a translation of Valarin Ezellōχār (WJ/401). The (Vanyarin?) name Ezellohar is a direct adaptation of the Valarin name. The name is generally glossed “Green Mound”, but the literal meaning of the Quenya name is “✱Mound of Summer”.
Quenya
Corollairë
korollairë
corollairë
place name. Green Mound, *(lit.) Mound of Summer
Elements
Word Gloss coron “mound, mound; [ᴹQ] globe, ball” lairë “summer” Variations
- Korolairë ✧ MRI/Korolairë
- Corolairë ✧ MRI/Korolairë
- Korlairë ✧ MRI/Korolairë
- Korollairë ✧ PMI/Korollairë; WJI/Korollairë
- Korollaire ✧ WJ/401
Corlairë
corlairë
Corlairë ("k"), place-name, apparently shortened from Corollairë, Coron Oiolairë (MR:107)
coron
mound
coron (1) noun "mound" (SA); Coron Oiolairë ("Koron"), place-name: the "Mound of Eversummer" where the Two Trees grew. Also contracted Corollairë (WJ:401) and Corlairë (MR:107); both are spelt with an initial k in the sources.
coron
noun. mound, mound; [ᴹQ] globe, ball
A word glossed “mound” in the name Q. Koron Oiolaire “Mound Ever-summer” in the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 (SA/coron; WJ/401). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, however, ᴹQ. koron was glossed “globe, ball” and was derived from the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR). If this was its primary meaning, then perhaps it could also refer to round hills as hemispheres. In The Etymologies, its stem form was korn- as indicated by its (Middle Quenya) genitive kornen, likely the result of the Quenya syncope; the same reduction in inflected forms may have applied to the later version of the word as well.
Derivations
- √KOR “round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll”
Element in
- Q. Corollairë “Green Mound, *(lit.) Mound of Summer” ✧ SA/coron
- Q. Coron Oiolairë “Mound Ever-summer” ✧ SA/coron
Ezellohar
the green mound
Ezellohar noun "the Green Mound" where the Two Trees grew; adopted and adapted from Valarin; also translated as Coron Oiolairë, Corollairë (WJ:401). The name must have become *Erellohar in Exilic (Noldorin) Quenya.
cumbë
mound, heap
cumbë ("k")noun "mound, heap" (KUB)
Corollairë ("Korollairë"), place-name; see Coron Oiolairë.