loar noun "(golden) blossom" (not to be confused with the pl. form of loa). Also lávar. (PE17:159)
Quenya
loa
growth
löa
noun. (seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming
Cognates
- ᴺS. lóran “seasonal year, (lit.) growth-cycle”
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺQ. illöa(va) “annual, yearly, per annum (year as item)”
- ᴺQ. löasta “season, (lit.) year-part”
- ᴺQ. löacasta “season, (lit.) year-quarter”
- Q. loëndë “mid-year (Númenórean calendar), *(lit.) year-middle”
- ᴺQ. qualöa(va) “annual, yearly, perennial (year as whole)”
- Q. umbë nin i hríve nauva urra (si loa) “I have a feeling that winter will be bad (this year)” ✧ PE22/168
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶lawā > löa [lawā] > [loa] ✧ PE17/159 ✶lawa > loa [lawa] > [loa] ✧ VT42/10 Variations
- loa ✧ LotR/1107; LotR/1112; PE17/120; PE22/168; PM/126; UT/327; UTI/loa; UTI/tuilë; UTI/yestarë; VT42/10
löar
noun. (golden) blossom
loar
(golden) blossom
lávar
(golden) blossom
lávar noun "(golden) blossom". Also loa. (PE17:159)
yestarë
beginning-day
yestarë noun *"beginning-day", the first day of the year (loa), immediately before the season of tuilë (Appendix D, PE17:120)
yén
long year
yén noun, Elvish "long year" of 144 solar years, 52,596 days (Nam, Appendix D, E; RGEO:66. Tolkien earlier defined yén_ as 100 solar years; see PM:126. In the Etymologies, stem YEN, it seems to mean simply "year", but in the LotR Appendices the word for "year" instead appears as _loa or coranar, q.v.) Yénonótië "reckoning of years" (MR:51). Pl. yéni in Nam and Etym, entry YEN though the plural form is misread as "yen-" in the printed version of the Etymologies, cf. VT46:23. Yéni pa yéni "years upon years" (VT44:36). Pl. genitive yénion in yénion yéni "ages of ages" (VT44:36)
lávar
noun. (golden) blossom
A word in notes from the 1960s for a “(golden) blossom” with variants löar and lávar, both based on the √LAWAR having to with the colour “gold” (PE17/159). The element ᴹQ. lavar also appeared as an element in the name for a Númenorean tree ᴹQ. lavaralda in stories from the 1930s which Tolkien described as having “long green leaves [that] were golden on the undersides” and whose “flowers were pale with a yellow flush” (LR/57-68). For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use lávar for “(golden) blossom”, since that form is more distinctive.
Derivations
- √(G)LAWAR “golden light” ✧ PE17/159
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LAWAR > löar [lawar] > [loar] ✧ PE17/159 √LAWAR > lávar [lāwar] > [lāβar] > [lāvar] ✧ PE17/159 Variations
- löar ✧ PE17/159
coi
life
coi ("k")"life" (LT1:257; in Tolkien's later Quenya cuilë)
coivië
life
coivië _("k")_noun "life" (coivierya, *"his/her life", VT49:41, 42). In early material, the word is glossed "awakening" instead (LT1:257; in LotR-style Quenya cuivië, as in Cuiviénen)
coivië
noun. life, life, [ᴱQ.] liveliness; awakening
The usual word for “life” in Tolkien’s later writings based on the root √KOY (NM/84, 119; VT49/42), in one place appearing with the variant koive (PE17/68). In another place Tolkien instead used kuivie for “life” in the phrase kuivie-lankasse “on the brink of life”, reflecting Tolkien’s ongoing vacillation between √KOY and √KUY as the root for life.
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. koivie was “awakening” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/48) as reflected in the name ᴱQ. Koivie-néni “Waters of Awakening” from this period (QL/48), but the word was glossed “liveliness” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/29). The noun for “life, being alive” was ᴹQ. kuile in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY), but was usually coivie in Tolkien’s writings from the 1950s and 60s, as noted above.
Neo-Quenya: I prefer √KOY as the root for “life” for purposes of Neo-Eldarin, so I’d use coivie as the noun “life, liveliness”, and use cuivië for “awakening” as seen in the later form of the name Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” (S/48).
Derivations
- √KOY “*live, have life, [ᴹ√] live, have life”
Element in
- ᴺQ. coivenqua “lively, vibrant, vivacious, (lit.) full of life”
- Q. cuivië-lancassë “on the brink of life” ✧ VT42/08
- Q. nai amanya onnalya ter coivierya “*may your (sg.) child be blessed throughout his/her life” ✧ VT49/42
- Q. nai calambar onnalda ter coivierya “*may your (pl.) child be light-fated throughout his/her life” ✧ VT49/42
Variations
- koive ✧ PE17/068
- koivie ✧ PE17/068
- kuivie ✧ VT42/08
coivë
noun. life
cuilë
life, being alive
cuilë ("k")noun "life, being alive" (KUY)
cuivië
noun. life
lavaralda
(golden) blossom
lavaralda (changed by Tolkien from lavarin) noun some kind of tree (alda) (LR:57). The initial element lavar- seems to connect with the root LAWAR having to do with golden colour; cf. lávar "(golden) blossom" (PE17:159).
olmië
noun. growth
Derivations
- √OL “grow, [ᴹ√] grow [into]; become”
olasta
noun. growth
Elements
Word Gloss ola- “to grow [up], to grow, grow up, reach its prime, become” -sta “verbal noun suffix”
loa, noun literally "growth", used of a solar year (= coranar) when seasonal changes are considered (Appendix D; in PM:126 loa is translated "time of growth". Pl. loar, or "löar", in MR:426) The form loa is also mentioned as the hypothetical Quenya cognate of Sindarin lô ("swampy"), but precisely because it clashed with loa "year", this Quenya cognate was not in use (VT42:10)