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Early Quenya

ektele

noun. fountain

Cognates

  • G. ecthel(uin) “fountain, fount” ✧ GL/31; LT2A/Ecthelion; PE15/23; PME/046
  • G. aithl “spring”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KELE “flow, run; ooze, trickle”

Element in

Variations

  • ektelë ✧ LT1A/Kelusindi; LT2A/Ecthelion
  • Ektele ✧ PE15/23
Early Quenya [GL/31; LT1A/Kelusindi; LT2A/Ecthelion; PE15/23; PME/046; QL/035] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kektele

noun. fountain

Cognates

  • G. caithl “source, fount, origin”

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶kekt(ǝ)lē
    • ᴱ√KEKE “to bubble up”
  • ᴱ√KELE “flow, run; ooze, trickle” ✧ LT1A/Kelusindi

Variations

  • kektelë ✧ LT1A/Kelusindi; LT2A/Ecthelion
Early Quenya [LT1A/Kelusindi; LT2A/Ecthelion; PME/046; QL/035; QL/046] Group: Eldamo. Published by

welme

noun. spring

welwe

noun. spring

Cognates

  • G. gwelwi “spring of water”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWELE “*boil, bubble” ✧ QL/103

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√GWELE > ’welwe[gʷelwē] > [gʷelwe] > [welwe]✧ QL/103

Variations

  • ’welwe ✧ QL/103
  • ’welme ✧ QL/103
Early Quenya [QL/103] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vaskelu

noun. fountain

A word for “fountain” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed, a combination of the roots ᴱ√VASA and ᴱ√KELU (QL/93).

Elements

WordGloss
VASA“*wing”
KELE“flow, run; ooze, trickle”
Early Quenya [QL/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tuilére

noun. Spring

Cognates

  • G. tuilir “spring(time)” ✧ QL/096

Element in

Variations

  • Tuilérë ✧ LT1A/Tuilérë; LT1I/Tuilérë
  • Tui(lēre) ✧ PME/096
  • Tuilēre ✧ QL/096
  • Tui ✧ QL/096 (Tui)
  • tuilē-re ✧ QL/096
Early Quenya [LT1A/Tuilérë; LT1I/Tuilérë; PME/096; QL/040; QL/096] Group: Eldamo. Published by