_ pref. _sunshine.
Sindarin
glaw
noun. sunshine, sunshine; [N.] radiance
Derivations
- √LAW “flourish (green), grow, flourish (green), grow, [ᴹ√] abound; warm” ✧ PE17/159
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LAW > glaw- [glaw] > [glau] ✧ PE17/159 Variations
- glaw- ✧ PE17/159
glaw-
prefix. sunshine
aglar
noun. radiance
_n. _radiance, glory. Q. alkar. >> aglareb
galad
radiance
glaw
radiance
(i ’law), pl. gloe (in gloe)
galad
radiance
1) galad (i ngalad = i ñalad) (bright light, sunlight, brilliance, glittering reflection), pl. gelaid (in gelaid = i ñgelaid), 2) glaw (i **law), pl. gloe (in gloe), 3) thîl; no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. ?thiliath**.
galad
radiance
(i ngalad = i ñalad) (bright light, sunlight, brilliance, glittering reflection), pl. gelaid (in gelaid = i ñgelaid)
thîl
radiance
; no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. ?thiliath.
A word (or word element) appearing in linguistic notes from the late 1950s as glaw- “sunshine”, a derivative of the root √LAW (PE17/159). A similar word N. glaw “radiance” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s, but this word was derived from primitive ᴹ✶g’lā based on the root ᴹ√GAL, a Noldorin-only variant of the root ᴹ√KAL “shine” (Ety/KAL).
Conceptual Development: Possible earlier precursors to this word include ᴱN. glarw “ray, radiance” from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/144) and G. glaros “glare, blaze, splendour” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/39), the latter probably related to the early root ᴱ√KALA “shine golden” (QL/44); see that entry for discussion.