Qenya
lára
adjective. flat
Cognates
- N. dalw “flat” ✧ Ety/DAL
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺQ. lára- “to flatten, level”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶lāda > lára [lāda] > [lāða] > [lāra] ✧ Ety/DAL ᴹ√LAD > lāra [lāda] > [lāða] > [lāra] ✧ Ety/LAD Variations
- lára ✧ Ety/DAL
- lāra ✧ EtyAC/LAD (
lāra)
lára
noun. grave
Derivations
- ᴹ√
DAG“dig” ✧ EtyAC/DAGPhonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DAG > lára [dagra] > [lagra] > [laɣra] > [lāra] ✧ EtyAC/DAG Variations
lára✧ EtyAC/DAG (lára)
almárea
adjective. blessed
mána
adjective. blessed
Derivations
- ᴹ√MAN “holy spirit” ✧ EtyAC/MAN
Element in
- ᴹQ. talantie “they are holy, blessed, and beloved — save the dark one: he is fallen” ✧ LR/072
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MAN > manna [manna] ✧ EtyAC/MAN Variations
- manna ✧ EtyAC/MAN (
manna)
A rejected noun for “grave” in a deleted entry in The Etymologies written around 1937 for the root ᴹ√DAG “dig” (EtyAC/DAG).
Conceptual Development: There was a word ᴱQ. kaune “grave” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s based on the early root ᴱ√KAVA which also meant “dig” (QL/45; PME/45). In the first version of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem and its drafts written around 1930, Tolkien used ᴱQ. sapsa or sapta for “grave” (MC/221; PE16/75), a word that is clearly based on another root meaning “dig”: ᴱ√SAPA.
Neo-Quenya: Since √SAP appeared in Tolkien’s later writings with the same or similar meaning (PE19/86), I’d adapted ᴺQ. sapta for “grave”, along with the meaning “(delved) hole, pit”; see that entry for discussion.