Eldamo : Quenya : palda

Q. palda adj. “wide, broad” (Category: Wide, Broad)

Q. palda, adj. “wide, broad, *expansive” (Category: Wide, Broad)

An adjective glossed “wide, broad” in notes from the late 1960s, derived from ✶palnā and related to adverb Q. palan “far and wide” (VT47/8).

Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had ᴹQ. palla “wide, expansive” under the root ᴹ√PAL “wide (open)” (Ety/PAL), which presumably was derived from *pallā.

Reference ✧ VT47/8 ✧ “wide, broad”

Derivations

< ✶palnā “wide, broad” ✧ VT47/8
- < √PAL “wide, broad, extended” ✧ VT47/8

Phonetic Developments

✶palnā > palda

[palnā] > [paldā] > [palda]

✧ VT47/8

ᴹQ. palla adj. “wide, expansive” (Category: Wide, Broad)

See Q. palda for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/PAL ✧ “wide, expansive”

Derivations

< ᴹ√PAL¹ “wide (open)” ✧ Ety/PAL

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√PAL > palla

[palla]

✧ Ety/PAL