Eldamo : Quenya : coirëa

Q. coirëa adj. “living” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

Q. coirëa, adj. “living, ⚠️[ᴱQ.] lively, alive” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

An adjective for “living” appearing in notes from the 1950s as part of the phrase Q. coirëa quenya “living speech” (PM/399).

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. koirea “alive, lively” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√KOẎO “have life” (QL/48).

Reference ✧ PM/399 ✧ “living”

Element In

Q. coirëa quenya “living speech” ✧ PM/399

Derivations

< √KOY “*live, have life”

ᴱQ. koirea adj. “alive, lively” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

See Q. coirëa for discussion.

References ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni; QL/48

Glosses

“alive” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni
“alive, lively” ✧ QL/48

Elements

koire	“life”	✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni; QL/48
#-a	“adjectival suffix”	✧ QL/48 (#-a)