Qenya
malta
noun. gold (as metal)
Changes
malta→ malda “gold (as metal)” ✧ Ety/SMALCognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. malta launen “gold abounded to me, I had lots of gold” ✧ PE22/103
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶smaldā > malda [smaldā] > [m̥aldā] > [maldā] > [malda] ✧ Ety/SMAL ᴹ✶smaltā > malta [smaltā] > [m̥altā] > [maltā] > [malta] ✧ EtyAC/SMAL Variations
- malda ✧ Ety/SMAL
malda
noun. gold (as metal)
malina
adjective. yellow
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Malinalda
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶smalinā > malina [malinā] > [m̥alina] > [malina] > [malina] ✧ Ety/SMAL
mál
noun. grit
Variations
- māl ✧ PE21/24
laure
noun. gold
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√GLAW(-R) > laure [glaurē] > [ɣlaurē] > [laurē] > [laure] ✧ Ety/GLAW(-R) ᴹ✶laurē > laure [laurē] > [laure] ✧ Ety/LÁWAR
kulu
noun. gold (metal)
Cognates
- N.
côl“gold (metal)” ✧ Ety/KULDerivations
- ᴹ√KUL “golden-red” ✧ Ety/KUL; Ety/KUL
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KUL > kulu [kulū] > [kulu] ✧ Ety/KUL ᴹ√KULU > kulo [kulu] > [kulo] ✧ Ety/KUL Variations
kulo✧ Ety/KUL (kulo)
A word in Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s glossed “grit” with various forms representing the inflections of nouns with lost ancient vowels: malǝ- (PE21/19, 24). It may be a later iteration of ᴱQ. mar (mard-) “grit, course grain or powder” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a derivative of the root ᴱ√MṚŘṚ [MṚÐṚ] “grind” (QL/63). Later still Tolkien gave the primitive form ✶smalŭ with the gloss “dust, grit” in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure (EVS2) from the early 1950s, though this primitive form had no derivatives.
Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I prefer to use ᴹ✶smalu with its 1930s sense “pollen, yellow powder”, as this form has derivatives in The Etymologies (Ety/SMAL), and its root meaning ᴹ√SMAL “yellow” is a better match to the later root √MAL “yellow, gold”. I think it is possible to retain ᴹQ. mál “grit”, however, by assuming that it is a derivative of ᴹ√MBAL “✱pound”, which is a better match with 1910s ᴱQ. mar < ᴱ√MṚÐṚ “grind”.