Eldamo : Early Quenya : paptaqelasta

ᴱQ. paptaqelasta n. “fall, *leaf dying” (Category: Autumn)

⚠️ᴱQ. paptaquelasta, n. “fall, *leaf dying” (Category: Autumn): Q. lasselanta “(late) autumn, (lit.) leaf-fall; ⚠️[ᴹQ.] October”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s equivalent to ᴱQ. lasselanta “the fall”, a combination of ᴱQ. pat (papt-) “leaf” and a noun form of ᴱQ. qele- “perish, fade”, so more literally “*leaf dying” (QL/72). This word also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/72).

References ✧ PME/72; QL/72

Paptaqelasta = Lasselanta ✧ PME/72
paptaqelasta = lasselanta ✧ QL/72
Paptaqelasta = Narqelion ✧ PME/72

Elements

pat	“small leaf”	stem	✧ QL/72 (papt-)
qele-	“to perish; to fade”		✧ QL/72 (#qel-)
-sta	“verbal noun, infinitive, gerund”		✧ QL/72 (#-sta)