Early Quenya
sóla
noun. tide
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
sóla
noun. tide
A word appearing as sōla “tide” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, based on the early root ᴱ√SOLO (QL/85; PME/85).
Neo-Quenya: Since the root ᴹ√SOL continued to be associated with the surf in Tolkien’s later writings (Ety/SOL), I would retain ᴺQ. sóla as the general word for “tide”, as opposed to more specific luimë “high/flood tide” and nanwë “low/ebb tide”.