Corollairë ("Korollairë"), place-name; see Coron Oiolairë.
Quenya
coron oiolairë
place name. Mound Ever-summer
Elements
Word Gloss coron “mound, mound; [ᴹQ] globe, ball” oi(o) “ever, everlastingly; an endless period, ever, everlastingly; an endless period, *aeon” lairë “summer” Variations
- Koron Oiolairë ✧ WJ/401; WJI/Korollairë
Corollairë
korollairë
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
laire
noun. summer
lairë
summer
lairë (1) noun "summer" (Letters:283, VT45:26), in the calendar of Imladris a precisely defined period of 72 days, but also used without any exact definition (Appendix D). Oiolairë "Eversummer", name of a tree (UT:167), see also Coron Oiolairë. Lairelossë noun *"Summer-snow", name of a tree (UT:167), perhaps with white flowers.
lairë
noun. summer
Cognates
- S. laer “summer” ✧ LotR/1107
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Corollairë “Green Mound, *(lit.) Mound of Summer”
- Q. Coron Oiolairë “Mound Ever-summer”
- Q. lairelossë “summer-snow-white, species of tree in Númenor”
- Q. Mettelairë “August, *(lit.) End-summer” ✧ PM/136
- Q. oiolairë “ever-summer (a species of tree)”
- Q. Úlairi “Ring-wraiths, (lit.) ?Un-living, Un-summer”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LAY > laire [laire] ✧ Let/282 √LAY > laire [laire] ✧ PE17/159 Variations
- laire ✧ Let/282; PE17/159; PE22/167
Ellairë
summer
Ellairë alternative name of June (PM:135); evidently incorporating lairë "summer"; the el- part is probably an assimilated form of er-, an element meaning one or first, June being the first summer month.
oio
endless period
oio noun "an endless period" (CO) or adv. "ever" (SA:los). Oiolairë "Ever-summer" (name of a tree, UT:167; also in the name Coron Oiolairë, "Mound of Ever-summer". Oiolossë "Everwhite, Ever-snowwhite", a name of Taniquetil (OY), hence the translation "Mount Everwhite" in Tolkien's rendering of Namárië. See also SA:los. Explicit "mount" in Oron Oiolossë "Mount Everwhite" (WJ:403). Ablativic genitive Oiolossëo "from Mount Everwhite" in Namárië (Nam, RGEO:67, OY)
cumbë
mound, heap
cumbë ("k")noun "mound, heap" (KUB)
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.
A fuller name of Corollairë, a combination of coron “mound”, oi(o) “ever” and lairë “summer” (WJ/401).