qilta

noun. belt, girdle

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qilta “girdle, belt” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QḶTḶ (QL/78). It also appeared with the gloss “belt” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/78).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would retain ᴺQ. quilta “belt” from a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWILIT, but for “girdle” I would use Q. lesta (WJ/369).

qiltasse

noun. (em)broidery

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qiltasse “(em)broidery” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QILI (QL/77). It also appeared with the gloss “broidery” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/77).

Neo-Quenya: The initial element of this word looks suspiciously like quilta “belt”, so I suspect that the meaning of this word might originally have been an abstract noun meaning “belted with decorative elements”, influenced by the sense “embellish” of the verb quilya-. I therefore retain this word but with this slightly different etymology, and then assume it went on to influence the meaning of other words like quilin “adorned, (orig.) bright-coloured” and quilinoitë “[em]broidered”.

qilya-

verb. to adorn, embellish, colour

A word appearing as ᴱQ. qilya- “adorn, embellish, colour” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QILI (QL/77).

Neo-Quenya: I would retain ᴺQ. quilya- in the senses “to colour, embellish” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but for “adorn” I would use the later verb netya- (VT47/33). In the “Neologism of the Day” (NotD) series on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server on 2023-04-30, Luinyelle suggested ᴺQ. quilya- might also be used as the verb for “✱to paint”.