tyalië

noun. mirth, mirth, [ᴹQ.] play, game, sport

Cognates

• ᴺS. telias “play, game, sport, mirth”

Element in

• Q. Mar Tyaliéva “House of Mirth” ✧ PE21/80
• Q. Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva “House of Past (or Departed) Mirth” ✧ PE17/064; PE21/80
• Q. Tyalie Mar “House of Mirth” ✧ PE21/80

Variations

• Tyalie ✧ PE21/80
• tyaliē ✧ PE21/82

larma

lucky event

[larma (3) noun "lucky event"; additional glosses in Tolkien's manuscript are tentatively read as "pleasure, mirth" by Hostetter and Wynne (VT45:26)]

tyal-

verb. play

play

tyal-

play

tyal- vb. "play" (1st pers. aorist tyalin "I play") (TYAL)

lalasta

noun. laughter

Derivations

• √LAL “laugh”

lalaith

noun. laughter

lalaith

feminine name. Laughter

Name of Túrin’s deceased sister, translated “Laughter” (S/198). It is apparently the noun lalaith used as a name.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion revisions from the late 1950s, her name was changed to Lalaeth (MR/374), but that was not the name Christopher Tolkien used in the published Silmarillion.

Elements

Word	Gloss
lalaith	“laughter”

Variations

• Lalaeth ✧ MRI/Lalaeth; WJI/Urwen

lalaith

noun. laughter

Element in

• S. Lalaith “Laughter” ✧ S/198
• S. Nen Lalaith “*Water of Laughter”

Elements

Word	Gloss
lala-	“to laugh”
-th	“abstract noun”

Variations

• Lalaith ✧ S/198

gelir

noun. merry, happy, gay person

gelir

masculine name. Merry

Sindarin translation of the name of Sam’s son Merry, appearing in Tolkien’s unpublished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings and in the King’s Letter (SD/126, 129). Most likely this name is an elaboration of [N.] gell “joy”.

Conceptual Development: In drafts of the epilogue, this name was initially (rejected) Riben (SD/117).

Element in

• S. ar Iorhael, Gelir, Cordof, ar Baravorn, ionnath dîn “and Frodo, Merry, Pippin and Hamfast his sons” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129

gelir

adjective. merry

Sindarin translation of the name of Sam’s son Merry, appearing in Tolkien’s unpublished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings and in the King’s Letter from the early 1950s (SD/126, 129). This word is apparently an adjective, most likely an elaboration of [N.] gell “joy”. In Didier Willis’s Sindarin Dictionary, it is suggested this word might instead be a noun, an agental formation meaning “✱merry person” (HSD/gelir).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, the word for “merry” was G. dairog (GL/29), likely derived from ᴱ√TYALA “play”. This was revised to G. dairion in the “Gnomish Lexicon Slips” (PE13/112) and again to ᴱN. gair in Early Noldorin word lists from the 1920s (PE13/141, 143). This last change probably also reflects a new root, though exactly what this root might be is unclear. There isn’t a clear connection between these early forms and later gelir beyond a superficial resemblance of form.

Element in

• S. Gelir “Merry” ✧ SD/129

Elements

Word	Gloss
gell	“joy, triumph, (?victory), joy, triumph”

Variations

• Gelir ✧ SD/129

lalaith

laughter

lalaith; no distinct pl. form..

lalaith

laughter

; no distinct pl. form..

gelir

merry

(attested as the S equivalent of the name Merry) gelir (lenited elir; no distinct pl. form).

gelir

merry

(lenited ’elir; no distinct pl. form).

telias

noun. play, game, sport, mirth

Cognates

• Q. tyalië “mirth, mirth, [ᴹQ.] play, game, sport”

Elements

Word	Gloss
telia-	“to play”

teilia

play

(verb) teilia- (i deilia, i theiliar), also telia- (i delia, i theliar)

teilia

play

(i deilia, i theiliar), also telia- (i delia, i theliar)

teilien

play

(noun) teilien (i deilien) (sport), pl. teilin (i theilin). The word also occurs in a form that has e rather than ei (telien).

teilien

play

(i deilien) (sport), pl. teilin (i theilin). The word also occurs in a form that has e rather than ei (telien).

riben

masculine name. Merry

Changes

• Riben → Gelir “Merry” ✧ SD/117
• Riben → Gelir “Merry” ✧ SDI1/Gelir
• Riben → Gelir “Merry” ✧ SDI1/Riben

ganna-

verb. to play a harp

gannada-

verb. to play a harp

telia-

verb. to play

teilia-

verb. to play