Qenya
laime
noun. shadow (cast by an object or form), shade
Cognates
- N. dae “shadow (cast by an object or form), shade” ✧ EtyAC/DAY
Derivations
- ᴹ√DAY “shadow” ✧ Ety/DAY; EtyAC/DAY
Element in
- ᴺQ. nólaimë “foreshadowing”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DAY > laime [daime] > [laime] ✧ Ety/DAY ᴹ√DAY > laime [daime] > [laime] ✧ Ety/DAY ᴹ√DAY > laime [daime] > [laime] ✧ EtyAC/DAY
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s variously glossed “shade”, “shadow (cast by an object or form)”, and “shadow cast by a thing” under different iterations of the root ᴹ√DAY “shadow” (Ety/DAY; EtyAC/DAY). This root was primarily used for N. dae “shadow” in N. Dor-Daedeloth “Land of the Shadow of Dread”; in later writings the Dae- element in that name seems to have become dae(r) “great” (WJ/183), so I suspect ᴹ√DAY “shadow” and its derivatives were abandoned.