Quenya 

falmar

sea-spirit, nymph

falmar, falmarin (falmarind- or simply falmarin- as in pl. falmarindi [or falmarini]) noun "sea-spirit, nymph" (PHAL/PHÁLAS)

falma

(crested/foaming) wave

falma noun "(crested/foaming) wave" (PHAL/PHÁLAS), "a wave-crest, wave" (VT42:15), "foam wave" (PE17:127), "a breaker" (PE17:62), partitive pl. falmali "many waves" (PE17:73), allative falmalinnar "on the foaming waves" in Namárië(Nam, RGEO:67); the phrase an i falmalī _(PE17:74) seems to be a paraphrase of this with an independent preposition instead of the allative ending -nna (see an #1). Compounded in Falmari, a name of the Teleri, and Mar-nu-Falmar, "Home/Land under Waves", a name of Númenor after the Downfall. (SA:falas) Falmari "wave-folk", a name of the Teleri (PM:386). In earlier "Qenya", falma was glossed "foam" (LT1:253, cf. MC:213). Compare also the early "Qenya" words falmar "wave as it breaks" (LT1:253), pl. falmari "waves" (MC:216)_

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Qenya 

falmar(in)

noun. sea-spirit, nymph, sea-spirit, nymph, [ᴱQ.] sea-fay (male), spirit of the sea foam

Derivations

  • ᴹ√PHAL “foam” ✧ Ety/PHAL

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√PHAL/PHÁLAS > falmarin[pʰalmarin] > [ɸalmarin] > [falmarin]✧ Ety/PHAL

Variations

  • falmar ✧ Ety/PHAL
  • falmarin ✧ Ety/PHAL

Early Quenya

falmar

noun. wave (as it breaks), foamcrest

Cognates

  • G. falm “breaker, wave” ✧ LT1A/Falman

Derivations

  • ᴱ√FALA “*foam, wave” ✧ LT1A/Falman; QL/037

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√FALA > falmar[ɸalmar] > [falmar]✧ QL/037
Early Quenya [LT1A/Falman; MC/216; MC/220; PE16/060; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/077; PE16/100; PE16/104; QL/037] Group: Eldamo. Published by