Qenya
lor-
verb. to sleep, to sleep, [ᴱQ.] slumber
Derivations
- ᴹ√
(O)LOR“sleep; dream”Element in
- ᴹQ. Eldar ando kakainen loralyar Koivienenissen “the Elves were long lying asleep at Koivienéni” ✧ VT27/07
lóre
noun. slumber
Cognates
- N.
lhûr“slumber” ✧ Ety/LOSDerivations
- ᴹ√(O)LOS “sleep; dream” ✧ Ety/LOS
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√LOS > lóre [lōse] > [lōze] > [lōre] ✧ Ety/LOS
The verb ᴱQ. lor- “slumber” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LORO “doze, slumber” (QL/56). The verb reappeared in a present participle form loralyar “asleep” in Koivienéni sentence which was probably composed in the late 1930s (VT27/7).
Neo-Quenya: I’d use lor- as the best available verb for “to sleep, slumber” for purposes of Neo-Quenya; see the entry on √(O)LOR for further discussion.