Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : QILI¹

ᴱ√QILI¹ root. “*colour”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives having to do with colour and adornments like ᴱQ. qile “hue, colour” and ᴱQ. qilya- “adorn, embellish, colour” (QL/77). It had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as well such as G. cwil “hue, tint” (GL/28). As there are no better options for a generic words for “colour” in Tolkien’s later writing, I recommend positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KWIL “colour” to preserve these Early Qenya words.

References ✧ GL/22; QL/77

Variations

QILI¹ ✧ QL/77
qil- ✧ GL/22

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. qile “hue, colour” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qilea “coloured, -hued” ✧ QL/77
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. aurqila “golden, sunlit” ✧ QL/33
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. morqilea “of the hue of night” ✧ QL/62
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. -qil(e)a “-hued” ✧ QL/77
    - ⇒ ᴱQ. helinqila “mauve” ✧ QL/39
    - ⇒ ᴱQ. saqila “fire-red, scarlet” ✧ QL/81
> ᴱQ. qilin “adorned, bright-coloured, embroidered” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qilinoite “broidered” ✧ QL/77
> ᴱQ. qille¹ “blue-bell” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qillinin “blue-bell” ✧ QL/77
> ᴱQ. -qilna “-pied” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. lóteqilna “broidered with flowers” ✧ QL/56
> ᴱQ. qiltasse “(em)broidery” ✧ QL/77
> ᴱQ. qilya- “to adorn, embellish, colour” ✧ QL/77
> G. cwil “hue, tint”
- ⇒ G. cwiliog “bright-hued” ✧ GL/28