Q. Lótessë n. “May, *(lit.) Flower-ness” (Category: Names of the Months)
Name of the fifth month of the year in the Westron calendar (LotR/1110) corresponding to “May” (PM/134). It is apparently based on lótë “flower”, so perhaps meaning “*Flower-ness”.
Conceptual Development: In drafts of The Lord of the Rings appendices, this name was already ᴹQ. Lótesse “May” with an alternate name ᴹQ. Nótuile “*After Spring” = ᴹQ. nó “*after” + ᴹQ. tuile “spring” (PM/134-135). In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien gave various other words for “April”: ᴱQ. Kalainis based on ᴱQ. kalaine “serenity” (QL/44), ᴱQ. Lotession based on Lotesse as a name of Erinti (QL/55-56), as well as ᴱQ. Lunde Kalaina “*Serene Month” [kalain(e)a “serene”] and ᴱQ. Lunde Lótea “*Flowery Month” [lótea “full of blossom”] (QL/56).
References ✧ LotR/1110; UTI/Lótessë, Lothron
Glosses
Elements
| lótë | “flower, single blossom” |
| #-ssë² | “abstract noun” |
Cognates
ᴹQ. Lótesse n. “May, *(lit.) Flower-ness” (Category: Names of the Months)
Reference ✧ PM/134 ✧ Lótessë “May”
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Cognates
ᴱQ. Kalainis (Kalainiss-) n. “May”
A name for the month of May in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/44), an abstract noun formation from kalaine “serenity, serene”.
References ✧ LT1A/Erinti, Galmir; PME/44; QL/44
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| Kalainiss- | stem | ✧ QL/44 |
Elements
| kalaine | “serenity, serene (n.)” | ✧ QL/44 |
Derivations
ᴱQ. Lotession n. “May”
Reference ✧ QL/56 ✧ “May”
Elements
| Lotesse | ✧ QL/55 |
ᴱQ. Lunde Kalaina n. “May”
A name for the month of May in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/56), a combination of lunde “month” and kalain(e)a “serene” similar to another name of this month: Kalainis.
Reference ✧ QL/56 ✧ (Lunde) kalaina “May”
Elements
| lunde | “(lunar) month; (lit.) period” | ✧ QL/56 |
| kalain(e)a | “serene” | ✧ QL/56 (kalaina) |
ᴱQ. Lunde Lótea n. “May”
A name for the month of May in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/56), a combination of lunde “month” and lótea “full of blossom”.
References ✧ QL/56
Glosses
Variations
Elements
| lunde | “(lunar) month; (lit.) period” | ✧ QL/56; QL/56 |
| lótea | “full of blossom” | ✧ QL/56 (lōtea) |