LAW
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LAW (also appearing in the extended form LAWAR) is a Primitive Quendian root signifying the golden colour.[1]
Derivatives
- Common Eldarin: lawā ("growing, blooming...used for a sun-year")
- Quenya: löa ("growing, blooming...used for a sun-year")
- Sindarin: glaw- ("sunshine")
- Quenya: löar, lávar ("(golden) blossom"); laure ("golden colour of sunshine or golden flowers")
- Sindarin: glawar, glaur-
Other versions
In the Qenya Lexicon appear the roots LAURE ("gold") and LAWA ("have life...but used of a vegetable").[2]
In the Etymologies appears the roots LÁWAR- (Noldorin alteration: GLÁWAR-), from which derives Primitive Quendian *laurē ("(light of the golden Tree Laurelin) gold [the colour, cf. SMAL]".[3][4]
See also
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 159 (roots appearing as "√LAW-" and "LAWAR-")
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", pp. 358, 368
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 26
