Eldamo : Quenya : quelië

Q. #quelië n. “*fading” (Category: to Fade)

Q. #quelië, n. “*fading” (Category: to Fade): ᴱQ. narquelë “fading, withering”

A noun for “fading” indicated by the month name Narquelië “Sun-fading” in The Lord of the Rings appendices and its drafts (LotR/1110; PM/134). It was likely the gerund (verbal noun) of the verb quel- “to fade”.

Conceptual Development: The Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s had ᴹQ. qelesta “dying, fading” (PE21/8).

Reference ✧ LotR/1110

Elements

#quel-	“to fade”	✧ LotR/1110 (#quel-)
-ië¹	“abstract noun, adverb”	✧ LotR/1110 (#-ië)

Element In

Q. Narquelië “October, Sun-fading” ✧ LotR/1110

ᴹQ. #qelie n. “*fading” (Category: to Die; Dead; Death)

See Q. #quelië for discussion.

Reference ✧ PM/134 ✧ #quelië

Elements

#qel-	“†to fail”
-ie¹	“abstract noun”

Element In

ᴹQ. Narqelie “October” ✧ PM/134 (Narquelië)

ᴹQ. qelesta n. “dying, fading” (Category: to Fade)

See Q. #quelië for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE21/8 ✧ “dying, fading”

Derivations

< ᴹ√KWEL “fade (away), die away, grow faint; wither”
- < ᴹ√KEL “flow, flow away (downhill), run (of water or rivers), run away especially downwards or at end” ✧ Ety/KEL