Quenya
quilta
noun. belt, girdle
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. KWILIT “belt, girdle”
Element in
- Eq. macilquilta “swordbelt”
- ᴺQ. quiltalannë “apron”
- ᴺQ. quiltassë “(em)broidery”
Primitive elvish
kwilit
root. belt, girdle
Derivatives
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Early Quenya
qilta
noun. belt, girdle
Derivations
- ᴱ√QḶTḶ “*belt, girdle” ✧ QL/078
Element in
- Eq. eksiqilta “swordbelt” ✧ QL/035
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QḶTḶ > qilta [kʷḷtā] > [kʷḷta] > [kʷilta] ✧ QL/078
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qilta “girdle, belt” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QḶTḶ (QL/78). It also appeared with the gloss “belt” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/78).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would retain ᴺQ. quilta “belt” from a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWILIT, but for “girdle” I would use Q. lesta (WJ/369).