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Qenya 

wilwa

noun. lower air

wilma

noun. inner or lower air

Changes

  • vilwa → wilma “air, lower air” ✧ Ety/WIL
  • Wilwa → Vista ✧ SM/240
  • Wilwa → Vista ✧ SMI/Wilwa

Cognates

  • N. gwelw “air (as a substance)” ✧ Ety/WIL
  • Ilk. gwelo “air, lower air” ✧ Ety/WIL

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶wilwā “air, lower air” ✧ Ety/WIL; Ety/WIL; EtyAC/WIL
    • ᴹ√WIL “fly, float in air” ✧ Ety/WIL

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶wilwā > vilwa[gwilwā] > [ɣwilwā] > [wilwā] > [wilwa] > [vilwa]✧ Ety/WIL
ᴹ✶wilmā > wilma[gwilmā] > [ɣwilmā] > [wilmā] > [wilma] > [vilma]✧ Ety/WIL
ᴹ✶wilnā > vilda[gwilnā] > [ɣwilnā] > [ɣwildā] > [wildā] > [wilda] > [vilda]✧ EtyAC/WIL

Variations

  • vilwa ✧ Ety/WIL (vilwa); EtyAC/WIL
  • vilda ✧ EtyAC/WIL (vilda)
  • Wilwa ✧ LR/012; LRI/Wilwa; SM/240 (Wilwa); SMI/Wilwa
Qenya [Ety/WIL; EtyAC/WIL; LR/012; LRI/Wilwa; SM/240; SMI/Wilwa] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vista

place name. Air

Name for the region of Air in Silmarillion notes from the 1930s (SM/236). It is simply vista “air as substance” used as a name.

Elements

WordGloss
vista“air as substance”
Qenya [LRI/Vista; SM/236; SM/240; SM/241; SMI/Vista; SMI/Wilwa] Group: Eldamo. Published by