Early Quenya
pat
noun. small leaf
Derivations
- ᴱ√PAPA “*tremble” ✧ QL/072
Element in
- Eq. palapapte “*sycamore” ✧ QL/071
- Eq. paptaqelasta “fall, *leaf dying” ✧ QL/072
- Eq. tálin paptalasselindeën “with feet like the music of falling leaves” ✧ MC/216; PE16/090; PE16/092
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√PAPA > pat [papt] > [pat] ✧ QL/072 Variations
- papta ✧ MC/216; PE16/090; PE16/092
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “small leaf” under the early root ᴱ√PAPA whose derivatives mostly had to do with trembling, so perhaps referring to the trembling of small leaves in the wind (QL/72). It also appeared as an element in the phrase ᴱQ. tálin paptalasselindeën “with feet like the music of falling leaves” from the version of the Nieninqe poem from around 1930 (MC/216). In the version of the poem from the 1950s this phrase became táli lantalasselingië with papta >> lassë, so it seems this Early Qenya “leaf” word was abandoned.