ezel

green

ezel, ezella adj. "green" (in Vanyarin Quenya only). Adopted and adapted from Valarin. (WJ:399)

ezel(la)

adjective. green

laica

green

laica (1) adj. "green" (in older sources laiqua) (Letters:282, PE17:159). Laicolassë (laica + #olassë) "green-foliage" (PE17:46), Quenya cognate of Sindarin Laegolas (dialectal form Legolas); compare olassië. Adj. laicalassë "green as leaves", literally "green-leaf" (PE17:56).

laica

adjective. green

Cognates

• S. laeg “fresh and green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), fresh” ✧ Let/282; PE17/084; PE17/159
• Nan. lego “green” ✧ Let/282

Derivations

• ✶laikā “green” ✧ Let/282
  • √LAY “*be alive, flourish, [ᴱ√] be alive, flourish” ✧ Let/282
• √LAY “*be alive, flourish, [ᴱ√] be alive, flourish” ✧ PE17/159

Element in

• Q. laicalassë “green-leaf, green as leaves”
• ᴺQ. laicelumir “malachite (lit.) green-flowing-jewel”
• Q. Laicolassë “Green-foliage” ✧ PE17/056
• ᴺQ. laimaril “emerald”
• Q. Laiquendi “Green-elves”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶laikā > laica	[laikā] > [laika]	✧ Let/282
√LAY > laika	[laikā] > [laika]	✧ PE17/159

Variations

• laikā ✧ PE17/084
• laika ✧ PE17/159

laiqua

green

laiqua ("q")adj. "green" (LÁYAK, LT1:267, MC:214), "Qenya" pl. laiquali ("q")(MC:216). Occurs in the phrase laiqua'ondoisen ("q") "green-rocks-upon" (MC:221; this is "Qenya"), Laiqualassë ("q") masc. name "Legolas" (Greenleaf) (LT1:267). Used as noun in the phrase mi laiqua of somebody clad "in green" (PE17:71). In later material, the word for "green" appears as laica, and the cognate of Legolas is said to be Laicolassë, q.v. (PE17:56)

laiqua

adjective. green

Changes

• laiqua → laikā “green” ✧ PE17/084

Cognates

• S. laeg “fresh and green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), fresh” ✧ PE17/153
• Nan. lego “green” ✧ PE17/153

Derivations

• ✶laikwā ✧ PE17/153

Element in

• ᴺQ. laiquaril “emerald”
• Q. sanomë tarnë Olórin, Aracorno, Eomer, Imrahil, mi mísë, mi telepta yo morna, mi laiqua yo ninquë, mi luinë, ta Gimli mi lossëa “There stood Gandalf, Aragorn, Eomer and Imrahil in grey, in silver and black, in green and white, and in blue, and also Gimli in white” ✧ PE17/071

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶laiquā > laiqua	[laikwā] > [laikwa]	✧ PE17/153

wenya

green, yellow-green, fresh

wenya adj. "green, yellow-green, fresh" (GWEN), apparently "fair, beautiful" ("probably originally "fresh, fair, unblemished especially of beauty of youth") in a later deleted note (PE17:191).

Pinnath Gelin

noun. green ridges

pinnath (collective plural of ? [His.]), celin (pl. of calen- “green”)

Pinnath Gelin

'Green Slopes'

topon. 'Green Slopes', 'Green Crest/ridges'. Dialectal of late Gondorian Sindarin for the pl. pennath blended with other plural forms pinn, pind. >> pind, pinn

Pinnath Gelin

'Green-crests'

topon. 'Green-crests'. >> pind, pinn

pinnath gelin

place name. Green Ridges

A fiefdom in Gondor, glossed “Green Hills” in The Lord of the Rings (LotR/771) and elsewhere translated “Green Ridges”, “Green Downs” (RC/525), “Green Slopes” or “Green Crests/Ridges” (PE17/24). This name appears to be a combination of the class-plural of pind “crest, ridge” and the lenited plural form of calen “green”.

Conceptual Development: When it first appeared in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name was already N. Pinnath Gelin (WR/280).

Elements

Word	Gloss
pind	“crest, ridge”
calen	“green; fresh, vigorous; †bright, green; †bright, [N.] bright-coloured; [S.] fresh, vigorous”

calen

adjective. green

calen

green

(galen) _ adj. _green (fresh, vigorous). galen after a sg. noun. Q. kălina (lit. illumined) sunny, light.

laeb

adjective. green

_ adj. _green. A theoretical equivalent to Q. laiqua but that did not exist in Sindarin.

laeg

green

_ adj. _green. >> Legolas

laeg

adjective. green

_ adj. _green (of leaves, herbage). Q. laika.

Pinnath Gelin

Pinnath Gelin

Usually translated as Green Hills, and sometimes as Green Downs, the meaning of the name Pinnath Gelin would be actually closer to Green Ridges, Green Slopes or Green Crests. The first word was the dialectical Sindarin or Gondor Sindarin pinnath. The second was the plural of the word calen, "green".

calen

green

1) (etymologically "bright") calen (lenited galen), pl. celin (attested in lenited form in the name Pinnath **Gelin, "Green Ridges"). 2) laeg (fresh), no distinct pl. form. (Note: a homophone means ”keen, sharp, acute”.) In the Woodland dialect lêg, whence leg- in the name Legolas** ”Greenleaf” (Lettters:282, 386).

calen

green

(lenited galen), pl. celin (attested in lenited form in the name Pinnath Gelin, "Green Ridges").

laeg

green

(fresh), no distinct pl. form. (Note: a homophone means ”keen, sharp, acute”.) In the Woodland dialect lêg, whence leg- in the name Legolas ”Greenleaf” (Lettters:282, 386). 

lasgalen

leaf-green

(pl. lesgelin).

ezel(la)

adjective. green

Element in

• Van. Ezellohar “Green Mound” ✧ WJ/399

Variations

• ezel/ezella ✧ WJ/399

lego

adjective. green

Cognates

• Q. laica “green” ✧ Let/282
• Q. laiqua “green” ✧ PE17/153

Derivations

• ✶laikā “green” ✧ Let/282
  • √LAY “*be alive, flourish, [ᴱ√] be alive, flourish” ✧ Let/282
• ✶laikwā ✧ PE17/153

Element in

• Nan. Legolas “Greenleaf” ✧ Let/282; PE17/153

Variations

• leg ✧ Let/282
• lēgo ✧ PE17/153
• lĕgo ✧ PE17/153

laikā

adjective. green

Derivations

• √LAY “*be alive, flourish, [ᴱ√] be alive, flourish” ✧ Let/282

Derivatives

• Nan. lego “green” ✧ Let/282
• Q. laica “green” ✧ Let/282
• S. laeg “fresh and green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), fresh” ✧ Let/282

pinnath gelin

place name. Green Hills

calen

adjective. green