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Early Quenya

lama

noun. animal, beast; head of cattle or sheep

Changes

  • lāmalăma ✧ QL/050

Cognates

  • En. lafn “*animal” ✧ PE14/070

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶labna ✧ PE14/070; PE14/070
    • ᴱ√LAMA “*animal”
  • ᴱ√LAMA “*animal” ✧ QL/050

Element in

  • Eq. lamandar “herdsman, shepherd” ✧ QL/050
  • Eq. laminya “animal-like, beastly, stupid” ✧ QL/050
  • Eq. lama raustea “beast of prey” ✧ QL/050
  • Eq. lamáre “flock” ✧ QL/050

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶labna > lamna > lamn > lama[labna] > [lamna] > [lamnǝ] > [lamn] > [lama]✧ PE14/070
ᴱ✶labnai > lamnī > lamni[labnai] > [lamnai] > [lamnī] > [lamni]✧ PE14/070
ᴱ√LAMA > lăma[lamā] > [lama]✧ QL/050

Variations

  • lăma ✧ QL/050
  • lāma ✧ QL/050 (lāma)
Early Quenya [PE14/042; PE14/044; PE14/070; PE14/071; PE14/074; PE15/69; PE16/132; QL/050] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lamáre

noun. flock

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “flock” with variants lāmáre and lamárin, based on ᴱQ. lama “head of cattle or sheep” (QL/50). It was first written as lāma, then amended to lāmáre, -in with lámarin written after it. The editors (Gilson, Hostetter, Wynne and Smith) suggested that this likely indicated two forms: lamáre and lámarin.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. lamnarë “flock, ✱herd”, based on the later word Q. laman (lamn-) “[tame] animal”, with the same suffix -re. This suggestion came from Röandil in a Discord chat from 2022-03-18.

Changes

  • lāmalāmáre “flock” ✧ QL/050

Variations

  • lāmáre ✧ QL/050
  • lámarin ✧ QL/050
  • lāma ✧ QL/050 (lāma)
Early Quenya [QL/050] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lámarin

noun. flock