Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : alas

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] alas (alast-) n. “marble” (Category: Rock, Stone)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] alas (alast-), n. “marble” (Category: Rock, Stone)

See ᴺQ. alas for discussion.

Element In

ᴺQ. alasta “of marble, marble”

Cognates

ᴺS. glast “marble”

Derivations

< ^ᴺ✶galast- “marble, (orig.) thing pleasant to touch”
- < ᴹ√GALAS “joy, be glad”
  - < ᴹ√GAL² “grow, thrive” ✧ Ety/GALA (GALA)

ᴱQ. alas (alast-) n. “marble” (Category: Rock, Stone)

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. alas (alast-) “marble” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from primitive ᴱ✶ʒalast- (QL/30).

Neo-Quenya: I think this word may be salvageable in Neo-Quenya as ᴺQ. alas, reconceived as a derivative of ᴹ√GALAS “joy, be glad”, perhaps from ᴺ✶galast- originally with the sense “thing pleasant to touch”.

References ✧ PME/30; QL/30

Glosses

“marble” ✧ QL/30

Variations

alas ✧ QL/30

Inflections

alast-	stem	“marble”	✧ PME/30
alast-	stem		✧ QL/30

Element In

ᴱQ. alasta “of marble, marble” ✧ QL/30
ᴱQ. alaswa “like marble” ✧ QL/30

Cognates

G. glast “marble”

Derivations

< ‽ᴱ✶ʒalast- “*marble” ✧ QL/30 (‽ʒalast-)

Phonetic Developments

‽ᴱ✶ʒalast- > alas

[ɣalastǝ] > [ɣalast] > [ɣalas] > [alas]

✧ QL/30