Eldamo : Sindarin : laew

S. laew adj. “fresh” (Category: New)

S. laew, adj. “fresh” (Category: New): G. brag “fresh”; N. lhoeb “fresh”; G. laibrin “green, fresh, youthful”

A word for “fresh” in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957 based on the root √LAY having to do with green and livings things (PE17/159).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. laus meaning either “juice, sap” or “energy, vitality” as well as functioning as an adjective for “fresh” (GL/53). It was likely based on the early root ᴱ√LAWA having to do with living plants from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/52).

Reference ✧ PE17/159 ✧ “fresh”

laew “fresh” may replace N. lhoeb “fresh”
ᴺS. ^laew “frequent, many” vs. laew “fresh”

Element In

ᴺS. !laeweth “freshness”

Derivations

< √LAY “*be alive, flourish” ✧ PE17/159

Phonetic Developments

√LAY > laew

[laiwa] > [laiw] > [laew]

✧ PE17/159

G. laus n. and adj. “juice, sap; energy, vitality; (aj.) fresh” (Category: Juice)

See S. laew for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/53 ✧ “juice, sap; energy, vitality; (aj.) fresh”

Derivations

< ᴱ√LAWA “*life (esp. plants)”