Early Quenya
ulma
noun. flagon
Cognates
- G. ulm “jar, flagon” ✧ QL/097
Derivations
- ᴱ✶ḷma ✧ QL/097
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶ḷma > ulma [ḷmā] > [ḷma] > [ulma] ✧ QL/097
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A word appearing as ᴱQ. ulma “flagon” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from ᴱ✶ḷma (QL/97). Tolkien said it was not related to the early root ᴱ√ULU “pour” because Gnomish derivatives of that root showed gul- (indicating a true root form ✱ᴱ√GULU), whereas the Gnomish cognate of this word was G. ulm (GL/74).
Neo-Quenya: Tolkien soon changed his mind and decided the root for “pour” was in fact ᴱ√ULU. I would therefore retain ᴺQ. ulma for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but would assume it was derived from ✱ul-mā “a thing for pouring”. As such, I would assume its use also included pitchers with handles as well as flagons; this is how Helge Fauskanger used ulma in his NQNT (NQNT).