ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quiltassë n. “(em)broidery” (Category: Adornment (personal))
Elements
quilta | “belt, ⚠️girdle” |
ᴱQ. qiltasse n. “(em)broidery” (Category: Adornment (personal))
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qiltasse “(em)broidery” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QILI¹ (QL/77). It also appeared with the gloss “broidery” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/77).
Neo-Quenya: The initial element of this word looks suspiciously like quilta “belt”, so I suspect that the meaning of this word might originally have been an abstract noun meaning “belted with decorative elements”, influenced by the sense “embellish” of the verb quilya-. I therefore retain this word but with this slightly different etymology, and then assume it went on to influence the meaning of other words like quilin “adorned, (orig.) bright-coloured” and quilinoitë “[em]broidered”.
References ✧ PME/77; QL/77
Glosses
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
ᴱ√QILI¹ > qiltasse | [kʷiltassē] > [kʷiltasse] | ✧ QL/77 |