lalaith

noun. laughter

lalaith

feminine name. Laughter

Name of Túrin’s deceased sister, translated “Laughter” (S/198). It is apparently the noun lalaith used as a name.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion revisions from the late 1950s, her name was changed to Lalaeth (MR/374), but that was not the name Christopher Tolkien used in the published Silmarillion.

Elements

Word	Gloss
lalaith	“laughter”

Variations

• Lalaeth ✧ MRI/Lalaeth; WJI/Urwen

lalaith

noun. laughter

Element in

• S. Lalaith “Laughter” ✧ S/198
• S. Nen Lalaith “*Water of Laughter”

Elements

Word	Gloss
lala-	“to laugh”
-th	“abstract noun”

Variations

• Lalaith ✧ S/198

lalaith

laughter

lalaith; no distinct pl. form..

lalaith

laughter

; no distinct pl. form..

lalaith

Lalaith

Lalaith comes from the Sindarin word lalaith, meaning "laughter". Her birth name, Urwen, means "Fire Maiden" (from ûr = "fire, hot" and gwenn = "maiden").