Qenya
ornelie
collective name. Tree-folk
Cognates
- N. Galadrim “Tree-folk” ✧ TI/239
Elements
Word Gloss orne “(high isolated) tree” lie “people, folk” Variations
- Ornelië ✧ TI/239; TII/Galadrim
alda
noun. tree
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Aldalemnar “Week of the Trees” ✧ Ety/GALAD
- ᴹQ. aldar olar sana nóresse “trees grow in that land” ✧ PE22/116; PE22/116 (
aldar {alar >>} olar i·nóresse)- ᴹQ. Aldaron “Lord of Forests” ✧ Ety/GALAD
- ᴹQ. aldarwa “having trees, tree-grown”
- ᴹQ. i·aldar hinna ólar “the tree is still growing” ✧ PE22/116; PE22/116 (
i·aldar hinna {alarye >>} olarye)- ᴹQ. lavaralda “tree with long green leaves with golden undersides and pale flowers with a yellow flush”
- ᴹQ. lilótime alda amaliondo aranyallesse túno “*[the] many-flowered tree of Amalion in the kingdom of Túna” ✧ TMME/182
- ᴹQ. Malinalda
- ᴹQ. malka aldar ólar “*how much do trees grow” ✧ PE22/124
- ᴹQ. malkar i·aldar i·ólar nóressella “how great are the trees that grow in your land?” ✧ PE22/124
- ᴹQ. masse akime aldar “where are the trees (to be found)” ✧ PE22/125
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√GÁLAD > alda [galadā] > [galdā] > [ɣaldā] > [aldā] > [alda] ✧ Ety/GALAD ᴹ√GÁLAD > alda [galadā] > [galdā] > [ɣaldā] > [aldā] > [alda] ✧ Ety/GALAD ᴹ✶galadā > Alda [galadā] > [galdā] > [ɣaldā] > [aldā] > [alda] ✧ SD/302 Variations
- Alda ✧ LR/041; SD/302
- ’alda ✧ PE22/047; PE22/051
Quenya equivalent of Galadrim in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/239), a compound of orne “tree” and lie “folk”.