poldavë

adverb. strongly

A neologism coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo, an adverb form of the adjective Q. polda “strong”. Tamas Ferencz instead suggested ᴺQ. pollie could be an adverb meaning “hard, strongly” based on empollie which seems to mean “✱harder” in á rike empollie as an alternative to the phrase á rike amríkie “try harder; (lit.) try with more trying” (PE17/94, 167), but this use of pollie seems pretty tenuous to me, so I’d stick with the more straightforward poldave.

Derivations

• Q. polda “big, big; [ᴹQ.] strong, burly; [ᴱQ.] mighty, powerful”
  • √POL “can, have physical power and ability; large, big (strong); pound up, break up small, reduce to powder, can, have physical power and ability; large, big (strong); [ᴹ√] physically strong, [ᴱ√] have stength; [√] pound up, break up small, reduce to powder” ✧ PE17/115