Q. ría n. “wreath, garland” (Category: Hat, Cap)
The word ría “wreath, garland” appeared in the 1968 Shibboleth of Fëanor as a derivative of the root √RIG in a discussion of the etymology of the name Galadriel (PM/347). The same word ría “a wreath, garland” appeared in another 1968 discussion of her name, but there it was based on √RIƷ “wind about, wreathe” (NM/353).
Conceptual Development: In notes from 1959 Tolkien instead had Q. rië “garland” from √RIG “twine” (PE17/182). This in turn was a later iteration of ᴹQ. ríe “crown” from The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶rīgē under the root ᴹ√RIG having to do with crowns (Ety/RIG; EtyAC/RIG). As published in The Lost Road, this word was given rie (LR/383), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to ríe in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/11).
The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. serin (serind-) “wreath, crown” under the early root ᴱ√SERE “twine, tie, bind” (QL/83). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was Serin(do) “crown” (PME/83).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d use the 1968 word ría for “wreathe, garland”, but I’d also retain 1959 rië for its 1930s sense “crown”.
References ✧ NM/353; PM/347
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Element In
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| ✶riʒ > ría | [rīɣa] > [rīa] | ✧ NM/353 |
| ✶rīgā > ría | [rīgā] > [rīɣā] > [rīā] > [rīa] | ✧ PM/347 |
Q. rië¹ n. “garland” (Category: Hat, Cap)
References ✧ PE17/182
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Element In
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| √RIG > rië | [rige] > [riɣe] > [rie] | ✧ PE17/182 |
ᴹQ. ríe n. “crown” (Category: Hat, Cap)
References ✧ Ety/RIG; EtyAC/RIG
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| ᴹ✶rīgē > ríe | [rīgē] > [rīɣē] > [rīē] > [rīe] | ✧ Ety/RIG |