Q. calca n. “glass” (Category: Glass)
A word for “glass” appearing in notes from around 1968 as a derivative of √KALAK (VT47/35).
Conceptual Development: There was a similar form ᴱQ. talqe (talqi-) “glass” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (PME/88; QL/88). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon with a Gnomish cognate G. celc, both words being based on variant early roots ᴱ√kail(i)k and ᴱ√tail(i)k (GL/25).
In The Etymologies of the 1930s, the word for “glass” was ᴹQ. hyelle from the root ᴹ√KHYEL(ES) “glass” with Noldorin cognate N. hele (Ety/KHYEL(ES)). In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien instead said that “there was no common Eldarin word for glass”, and that the Sindarin word for “glass” was borrowed from Khuzdul while the Quenya word was cilin (PE17/37). Tolkien’s last published word for “glass” was calca as noted above (VT47/35), which seems to be a restoration of the early root ᴱ√kail(i)k.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use calca as the main Quenya for “[clear] glass”, but would retain cilin as another word for transluscent or reflective glass.
References ✧ VT47/35
Glosses
Element In
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| √KALAK > calca | [kalka] | ✧ VT47/35 |
Q. cilin n. “glass” (Category: Glass)
Reference ✧ PE17/37 ✧ “glass”
Element In
ᴹQ. hyelle n. “glass” (Category: Glass)
Reference ✧ Ety/KHYEL(ES) ✧ “glass”
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| ᴹ√KHYEL(ES) > hyelle | [kʰjelle] > [xjelle] > [j̊elle] | ✧ Ety/KHYEL(ES) |
ᴱQ. talqe (talqi-) n. “glass” (Category: Glass)
References ✧ GL/25; PME/88; QL/88
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Inflections
| Talqi- | stem | ✧ QL/88 |
| talqĭ- | stem | ✧ PME/88 |
Element In
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| ᴱ✶taı̯lkwē > talqe | [tailkʷē] > [tailkʷe] > [talkʷe] | ✧ GL/25 |