Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : orsa

ᴺQ. !orsa [þ] adj. “upper, above” (Category: Up, Above, Over)

ᴺQ. !orsa [þ], adj. “upper, above” [created by Luinyelle, Arael] (Category: Up, Above, Over)

See ᴱQ. orta for discussion.

Cognates

ᴺS. ^orth

Derivations

< √RŌ/ORO “up(wards); rise (up), go high, mount”

ᴱQ. orta prep. “above” (Category: Up, Above, Over)

The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. orta “above” under the early root ᴱ√ORO¹ (QL/70). The English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s had orta “above” as an adverb, plus atta/orta as prepositions, but these were all deleted.

Neo-Quenya: Luinyelle and Arael coined a neologism ᴺQ. orsa [þ] “upper, above” as an adjective, posted to the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) on 2022-05-23 and inspired by G. ortha and ᴺS. orth “upper”. As pointed out by Parmandil in 2024, this cannot be derived from *ortha since otherwise rth > rt, so it must be from or(o)thā; compare ursa [þ] “rage” < *ur(u)tha.

References ✧ PE15/67; QL/70

Glosses

“above” ✧ QL/70; PE15/67 (orta); PE15/67 (atta); PE15/67 (orta)

Variations

orta ✧ QL/70; PE15/67 (orta); PE15/67 (orta)
atta ✧ PE15/67

Inflections

ortande

allative

“above (of motion upwards)”

✧ PE15/67

Element In

ᴱQ. (or)tande “above (of motion upwards)” ✧ PE15/67 (ortande)

Cognates

G. ortha “upper”

Derivations

< ᴱ√ORO¹ “steepness, rising” ✧ QL/70

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√ORO¹ > orta

[ortā] > [orta]

✧ QL/70