Eldamo : Quenya : Onnalúmë

Q. Onnalúmë pn. “Time of the Children”

Q. Onnalúmë, pn. “Time of the Children”

A term for the period in which an Elvish married couple set out to have their children in documents from 1959 (NM/22, 25-26, 31, 85), a combination Q. onna “child” and Q. lúmë¹ “time”.

Conceptual Development: In one of these 1959 documents the term was Q. Onnarië instead (NM/16). Parmandil suggested this early form might be an abstraction based on onna plus ré “day” (= child-days).

References ✧ NM/22, 25-26, 31, 85

Glosses

“Time of Children” ✧ NM/31
“Time of the Children” ✧ NM/22; NM/25; NM/26; NM/85

Variations

onnalúmë ✧ NM/22; NM/25; NM/26; NM/31; NM/85
ontalúmë ✧ NM/25; NM/26

Elements

onna	“child”
lúmë¹	“time, period of time, hour”

Q. Onnarië pn. “Time of Children”

See Q. Onnalúmë for discussion.

Reference ✧ NM/16 ✧ “Time of Children”

Elements

onna	“child”
ré	“day (period from sunset to sunset)”
-ië¹	“abstract noun, adverb”