Early Quenya
walien
place name. land of the brown men, tropics
Derivations
- ᴱ√GWALA “*brown” ✧ QL/103
Element in
- Eq. waliemba “tropical” ✧ QL/103
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√GWALA¹ > ’Walien [gʷaliemb] > [waliemb] > [walien] ✧ QL/103 Variations
- ’Walien ✧ QL/103
Name for the tropics appearing only in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/103), where it was derived from the root ᴱ√GWALA.