Early Quenya
qiltasse
noun. (em)broidery
Derivations
- ᴱ√QILI “*colour” ✧ QL/077
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QILI¹ > qiltasse [kʷiltassē] > [kʷiltasse] ✧ QL/077
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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”.