Quenya 

fanta-

to veil, cloak, mantle

fanta- vb. "to veil, cloak, mantle" (VT43:22), mainly used of veils cast over things that shone, or that were brighter and more vivid (PE17:174); according to Tolkien usually the strong past tense fánë and perfect afánië were used, but later also fantanë in the past tense (and then perhaps *afantië in the perfect?) (PE17:179-180) Cf halya- (q.v.), the stem of which Tolkien contrasted with the stem of this verb (PE17:184).

fanta-

verb. to veil, cloak, mantle

Cognates

  • S. fanna- “to veil, cloak” ✧ PE17/174

Derivations

  • phantā- “to veil, cloak” ✧ PE17/174
    • PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ PE17/173
    • PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237
  • PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ VT43/22
    • PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
phantā- > fanta-[pʰanta-] > [ɸanta-] > [fanta-]✧ PE17/174
phan- > fanta-[pʰanta-] > [ɸanta-] > [fanta-]✧ VT43/22
Quenya [PE17/174; PE17/175; PE17/176; PE17/179; PE17/180; VT43/22] Group: Eldamo. Published by

fanwa

veil, screen

fanwa noun "veil, screen" (PE17:176, 180)

úfantima

not concealable

úfantima adj. "not concealable" (PE17:176), also úfantuma (PE17:180), cf. fanta-, q.v.

úfantima

adjective. not concealable

Elements

WordGloss
ú-“no, not, un-, in-; hard, difficult, bad, uneasy; hardly, with difficulty, ‘badly’”
fanta-“to veil, cloak, mantle”
-ima“-able, possibility, -able, [ᴹQ.] -ible, able to be done, [ᴱQ.] possible”

Variations

  • úfantuma ✧ PE17/180
Quenya [PE17/176; PE17/180] Group: Eldamo. Published by

úfantuma

adjective. not concealable

halya-

veil, conceal, screen from light

halya- vb. "veil, conceal, screen from light" (SKAL1, VT46:13) Tolkien noted that "√SKAL applied to more opaque things that cut off light and cast shadows over other things" (PE17:184), contrasting it with √SPAN, the rejected stem of fanta-, q.v.

vasarya-

to veil

vasarya- (þ) vb. "to veil" (VT42:10)

vasarya-

verb. to veil

Derivations

  • WATHAR “*shadow, veil” ✧ VT42/10

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
waþar > vasarya-[watʰarja-] > [waθarja-] > [βaθarja-] > [vaθarja-] > [vasarja-]✧ VT42/10

vasar

noun. veil

Cognates

  • S. gwath “shadow, dim light, shadow, dim light, [N.] shade” ✧ VT42/09

Derivations

  • WATHAR “*shadow, veil” ✧ VT42/09; VT42/10

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
Wathar > waþar > vasar[watʰar] > [waθar] > [βaθar] > [vaθar] > [vasar]✧ VT42/09
waþar > vasar[watʰar] > [waθar] > [βaθar] > [vaθar] > [vasar]✧ VT42/10
Quenya [VT42/09; VT42/10] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vasar

veil

vasar (þ) noun "veil" (VT42:10, the word was "not in daily use", VT42:9). Older form waþar.

loru-

verb. to fall asleep

A neologism coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo to replace the “fall asleep” senses of the Early Qenya verb ᴱQ. fanta- (QL/37).

Derivations

  • (O)LOR “dream, vision, [ᴹ√] sleep, [ᴱ√] doze, slumber; [√] dream, vision”
Quenya Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by