Middle Primitive Elvish
galad
root. tree
Derivations
- ᴹ√GAL “grow, thrive” ✧ Ety/GALA
Derivatives
Element in
- Ilk. galbreth “beech” ✧ Ety/BERÉTH; Ety/NEL
Variations
- GÁLAD ✧ Ety/GALAD; Ety/GALAD
galadā
noun. tree
Derivations
Derivatives
galā-
verb. to grow
Changes
galā→ golā ✧ PE22/113Derivations
- ᴹ√GAL “grow, thrive” ✧ PE22/098
Derivatives
Variations
- galā ✧ PE22/098; PE22/113 (
galā)- galā́ ✧ PE22/106 (
galā́)
gālæ
noun. light
Derivations
- ᴹ√KAL “shine” ✧ Ety/KAL
Derivatives
- Ilk.
gôl“light” ✧ Ety/KAL
glā
noun. radiance
Derivations
- ᴹ√GAL “shine” ✧ Ety/KAL
Derivatives
- N. glaw “radiance” ✧ Ety/KAL
Variations
- g’lā́ ✧ Ety/KAL
- g’lā ✧ EtyAC/KAL
golā-
verb. to grow
Derivations
- ᴹ√OL “grow”
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. ola- “to grow [up], to grow, grow up, reach its prime, become” ✧ PE22/113
Variations
- golā ✧ PE22/113
kalat
noun. light
Variations
- kalat- ✧ PE21/56
k’lā
noun. light
Derivations
- ᴹ√KAL “shine” ✧ Ety/KAL; PE18/038
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. kala “light” ✧ Ety/KAL
Element in
- ᴹQ. Kalion “Son of Light, Valinorian Elda” ✧ PE21/37 (
kalion)Variations
- k’lā́ ✧ Ety/KAL
- klā́ ✧ PE18/038
- kalĭ ✧ PE21/37 (
kalĭ)
The basis for Elvish “tree” words, this root first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as an extension of ᴹ√GALA “thrive” (Ety/GALAD). This replaced the earliest derivation of “tree” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, where the Qenya word for “tree” ᴱQ. alda was derived from ᴱ√ALA “spread” (QL/29). In The Etymologies, the Quenya form of this word remained the same, but the 1910s Gnomish words G. âl “wood” and †alwen “tree” (GL/19) became the 1930s Noldorin word N. galadh “tree” (Ety/GALA). Quenya and Sindarin retained these words for “tree” thereafter, and while Tolkien did not mention the root √GALAD again, his continued use of primitive ✶galadā “tree” (Let/426; PE17/153; PE21/74; UT/266) made it clear this root remained valid.