lelya- (1) vb. "go, proceed (in any direction), travel", pa.t. lendë / elendë (WJ:363, VT14:5, PE17:139) At one point Tolkien assigned a more specific meaning to the underlying root LED: "go away from the speaker or the point in mind, depart" (PE17:52), which would make lelya- a near synonym of auta-. The same source denies that the derivatives of _LED _were used simply for "go, move, travel", but elsewhere Tolkien assigns precisely that meaning to lelya-.
Quenya
lelya
delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely
lelya
adjective. delicate, beautiful and fine, slender, lovely
Cognates
- S. dail “beautiful, fine, delicate, lovely” ✧ PE17/139; PE17/151; PE17/151
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶delya > lelya [delja] > [lelja] ✧ PE17/151 ✶delya > lelya [delja] > [lelja] ✧ PE17/151
lelya-
go, proceed (in any direction), travel
lelya-
verb. to appear (of beautiful things); to attract, enchant (with dative)
Derivations
- √DEL “*fair” ✧ PE17/151
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √DEL > lelya [delja-] > [lelja-] ✧ PE17/151 Variations
- lelya ✧ PE17/151
lelya-
verb. to will with conscious purpose, immediate or remote
Derivations
- √DEL “will” ✧ NM/231
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √DEL > lelya [delja] > [lelja] ✧ NM/231 Variations
- lelya ✧ NM/231
nelya-
verb. to thicken, congeal
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶delta/delya > lelya [delja-] > [lelja-] ✧ PE17/017 ✶delta/delya > nelya [ndelja-] > [nelja-] ✧ PE17/017 Variations
lelya✧ PE17/017 (lelya)nelya✧ PE17/017 (nelya)
lenna-
go
lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.
vanya-
go, depart, disappear
vanya- (2) vb. "go, depart, disappear", pa.t. vannë (WAN). The verb auta- may have replaced this word in Tolkien's later conception.
men-
go
#men- (4) vb. "go" (VT47:11, cf. VT42:30, VT49:23), attested in the aorist (menë) in the sentence imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië "between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon". In the verb nanwen- "return" (or go/come back), -men- is changed to -wen- following nan- "back" (etymological form cited as nan-men-, PE17:166). In examples from VT49:23, 24, Tolkien used men- in the sense of "go as far as": 1st person sg. aorist menin (menin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist menë, present tense ména- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense mennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative (mennen sís "I arrive[d] here"), perfect eménië "has just arrived", future menuva "will arrive". All of these examples were first written with the verb as ten- rather than men-, Tolkien then emending the initial consonant.
nelya-
verb. to thicken, congeal
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. NDEL “thick, dense”
lelya (2) adj. "delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely" (PE17:139, 151)