Early Quenya
laire
noun. meadow
Cognates
- G. glair “meadow” ✧ GL/39; LT1A/Tári-Laisi
Derivations
- ᴱ√LAẎA “be alive, flourish” ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi; PME/052; QL/052
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√laẏa > laire [laðʲrē] > [laðʲre] > [lajre] > [laire] ✧ PME/052 ᴱ√LAẎA > laire [laðʲrē] > [laðʲre] > [lajre] > [laire] ✧ QL/052 Variations
- lairë ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi
avesta
noun. summer
Cognates
- En. awest “summer” ✧ PE13/137; PE13/160
Derivations
- ᴱ✶awestá ✧ PE13/137; PE13/160
Element in
- Eq. Andonavestan “Gates of Summer”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶awestá > avesta [awéstā] > [awésta] > [auésta] > [awésta] > [avésta] ✧ PE13/137 ᴱ✶awestá > avesta [awéstā] > [awésta] > [auésta] > [awésta] > [avésta] ✧ PE13/160 Variations
- avesta ✧ PE13/137; PE13/160
saiwali
noun. summer
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow” and derived from the root ᴱ√LAẎA (QL/50). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the same gloss (PME/50), and in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as a cognate of G. glair “meadow” (GL/39).