Eldamo : Noldorin : salab

N. salab n. “herb” (Category: Plant, Herb)

N. salab, n. “herb” (Category: Plant, Herb): G. caltha “plant, herb”; G. lauth “a plant, herb”

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “herb” derived from ᴹ✶SALÁK-(WĒ) and cognate to ᴹQ. salqe “grass” (Ety/SALÁK). Its Noldorin plural was seleb, but if adapted into Sindarin its plural would be *selaib.

Conceptual Development: A likely precursor is ᴱN. {halo >>} halb “grass, long mowing grass” from Early Noldorin word lists of the 1920s, which had a Quenya cognate ᴱQ. salqe (PE13/147). The variant half “grass” from elsewhere in the same document was likely also related (PE13/147). See also G. salc “green cut grass” from the 1910s.

References ✧ Ety/SALÁK

Glosses

“herb” ✧ Ety/SALÁK

Variations

salab ✧ Ety/SALÁK

Inflections

seleb

plural

✧ Ety/SALÁK

Cognates

Ilk. salch “grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK
ᴹQ. salqe “grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK
ON. salape “herb, green food plant” ✧ Ety/SALÁK

Derivations

< ON. salape “herb, green food plant” ✧ Ety/SALÁK; Ety/SALÁK
- < ᴹ✶salakwē “*grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK (SALÁK-(WĒ))
  - < #ᴹ√SALAK “*grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK (#SALÁK)

Phonetic Developments

ON. salape > salab	[salape] > [salap] > [salab]	✧ Ety/SALÁK
ON. salape > seleb	[salapi] > [selepi] > [seleip] > [seleib] > [seleb]	✧ Ety/SALÁK

ᴱN. halb n. “grass, long mowing grass” (Category: Grass)

See N. salab for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/147

Glosses

“grass” ✧ PE13/147 (half)
“grass, long mowing grass” ✧ PE13/147

Variations

halb ✧ PE13/147
halo ✧ PE13/147
half ✧ PE13/147

halb “grass, long mowing grass” [per editors, may replace] half “grass” ✧ PE13/147

Changes

halo >> halb “grass, long mowing grass” ✧ PE13/147

Cognates

ᴱQ. salqe “grass, long mowing grass” ✧ PE13/147

Derivations

< ᴱ√SḶKḶ¹ “*grass, mow”