Early Quenya
laiwa
adjective. pale
Cognates
- En. lhui “pale” ✧ PE13/149
Derivations
- ᴱ✶sleiwa “pale” ✧ PE13/149
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶sleiwa > laiwa [sleiwā] > [sleiwa] > [leiwa] > [laiwa] ✧ PE13/149
níva
adjective. pale
Element in
- Eq. níve qímari ringa ambar “the pale phantoms in her cold bosom” ✧ MC/213
qámea
adjective. sick
Cognates
- G. cômathol “diseased, ill”
Variations
- qāmea ✧ QL/076
A word appearing as qāmea “sick” in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjective form of ᴱQ. qáme “sickness, nausea” (QL/76).
Neo-Quenya: Since ᴹQ. qáme “sickness” appears in Tolkien’s later writings (Ety/KWAM), I would retain ᴺQ. quámëa for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but given the meaning of its noun form I would assume its primary meaning is “✱nauseous”, as opposed to generally sick which would be [ᴺQ.] hlaiwa.