Quenya 

ría

wreath

ría noun "wreath" (PM:347)

ría

noun. wreath, garland

The word ría “wreath, garland” appeared in the 1968 Shibboleth of Fëanor as a derivative of the root √RIG in a discussion of the etymology of the name Galadriel (PM/347). The same word ría “a wreath, garland” appeared in another 1968 discussion of her name, but there it was based on √RIƷ “wind about, wreathe” (NM/353).

Conceptual Development: In notes from 1959 Tolkien instead had Q. rië “garland” from √RIG “twine” (PE17/182). This in turn was a later iteration of ᴹQ. ríe “crown” from The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶rīgē under the root ᴹ√RIG having to do with crowns (Ety/RIG; EtyAC/RIG). As published in The Lost Road, this word was given rie (LR/383), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to ríe in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/11).

The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. serin (serind-) “wreath, crown” under the early root ᴱ√SERE “twine, tie, bind” (QL/83). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was Serin(do) “crown” (PME/83).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d use the 1968 word ría for “wreathe, garland”, but I’d also retain 1959 rië for its 1930s sense “crown”.

Cognates

  • T. ría “wreath, garland” ✧ PM/347
  • S. “wreath, garland, wreath, garland; [N.] crown” ✧ PM/347

Derivations

  • rīgā “wreath, garland” ✧ NM/353; PM/347
    • RIG “wreathe, twine, wind about; wreath, garland, crown” ✧ NM/353; PM/347

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
riʒ > ría[rīɣa] > [rīa]✧ NM/353
rīgā > ría[rīgā] > [rīɣā] > [rīā] > [rīa]✧ PM/347
Quenya [NM/353; PM/347] Group: Eldamo. Published by

rië

garland

rië noun "garland", also apparently riendë (PE17:182).

rië

noun. garland, [ᴹQ.] crown, [Q.] garland

Derivations

  • RIG “wreathe, twine, wind about; wreath, garland, crown” ✧ PE17/182

Element in

  • Q. Culúrien “*Golden Garland”
  • Q. riel(lë) “garlanded maiden, maiden crowned with a festive garland”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
RIG > rië[rige] > [riɣe] > [rie]✧ PE17/182

Variations

  • rië ✧ PE17/182
  • riende ✧ PE17/182

riendë

noun. garland

fen

reed

fen (feng-) noun "reed" (QL:38, stem feng- also in GL:34).

liscë

reed, sedge

liscë _("k")_noun "reed, sedge" (LT2:335)