laiqua

green

laiqua ("q")adj. "green" (LÁYAK, LT1:267, MC:214), "Qenya" pl. laiquali ("q")(MC:216). Occurs in the phrase laiqua'ondoisen ("q") "green-rocks-upon" (MC:221; this is "Qenya"), Laiqualassë ("q") masc. name "Legolas" (Greenleaf) (LT1:267). Used as noun in the phrase mi laiqua of somebody clad "in green" (PE17:71). In later material, the word for "green" appears as laica, and the cognate of Legolas is said to be Laicolassë, q.v. (PE17:56)

laiqua

adjective. green

laiquaninwa

green-blue

laiquaninwa ("q")adj. *"green-blue"? (cf. ninwa) (Narqelion)

laiquassë

greenness

laiquassë ("q")noun "greenness" (LT1:267)

laica

green

laica (1) adj. "green" (in older sources laiqua) (Letters:282, PE17:159). Laicolassë (laica + #olassë) "green-foliage" (PE17:46), Quenya cognate of Sindarin Laegolas (dialectal form Legolas); compare olassië. Adj. laicalassë "green as leaves", literally "green-leaf" (PE17:56).

laica

adjective. green

laiquaril

noun. emerald

laimaril

noun. emerald

A neologism for “emerald” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), a combination of laica “green” and [ᴹQ.] maril “crystal”. I prefer this over Tamas Ferencz’s neologism laiquaril which uses the older form laiqua for “green”.

ezel

green

ezel, ezella adj. "green" (in Vanyarin Quenya only). Adopted and adapted from Valarin. (WJ:399)

ezel(la)

adjective. green

wenya

green, yellow-green, fresh

wenya adj. "green, yellow-green, fresh" (GWEN), apparently "fair, beautiful" ("probably originally "fresh, fair, unblemished especially of beauty of youth") in a later deleted note (PE17:191).

wén

greenness, youth, freshness

wén noun "greenness, youth, freshness" (GWEN), blended with wendë "maid"