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Early Quenya

vilna

place name. (lower) air

Innermost layer of air in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/65), given as a derivative of the root ᴱ√VILI in the Qenya Lexicon, along with a variant form Vilya (QL/101). This second form reappeared decades later in The Lord of the Rings as Q. vilya “air, sky” (LotR/1123).

Changes

  • Vilna → Vilya ✧ LT1A/Vilna
  • Vilna → Vilya ✧ QL/101

Cognates

  • G. Gwilfa “lowest air” ✧ LT1A/Vilna

Derivations

  • ᴱ√VILI “*air” ✧ LT1A/Vilna; QL/101

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√VILI > Vilya[βilnā] > [βilna] > [vilna]✧ QL/101

Variations

  • Vilya ✧ LT1A/Vilna; QL/101
  • vilya ✧ MC/215; PE15/68 (vilya)
  • vilna ✧ QL/037
Early Quenya [LT1/085; LT1A/Vilna; LT1I/Vilna; MC/215; PE15/68; PE16/090; PE16/092; QL/037; QL/101; SMI/Vilna] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vilya

noun. (lower) air

ilma

noun. air

A word for “air” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/142), probably based on the early root ᴱ√ILU “ether”. Later ᴹQ. Ilma was used for “Starlight” (Ety/GIL; LR/205).

Elements

WordGloss
ILU“ether, the slender airs among the stars”
Early Quenya [PE16/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by