Select Elvish Words 1.71-1.72: Air, Ether, Wind
1.71 Air, Ether
- ᴱQ. vilina adj. “airy, breezy; light [weight?]”
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The adjective ᴱQ. {vilna >>} vilina “airy, breezy, light” appeared the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√VILI (QL/101). The forms vílyava or vílina “airy” appeared in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s, but this entry was deleted (PE15/68).
Select Elvish Words 1.61: Light
1.61 Light
- ᴹQ. alka n. “ray of light, ⚠️[ᴱQ.] light of day; shining”
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A word for “ray of light” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√AKLA-R (Ety/AKLA-R).
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Select Elvish Words 1.56: Noise, Thunder
1.56 Noise, Thunder
- ᴱQ. fundu- vb. “?to thunder”
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An unglossed verb form ᴱQ. fundu- or funduna- appearing drafts of the Oilima Markirya from around 1930, appearing only in inflected forms like funduváre (future) or fundunár (PE16/57, 60). Gilson, Welden and Hostetter suggest that it might have been an onomatopoeic verb meaning “pound” or “thunder”.
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