Q. laurëa adj. “golden (of hue)” (Category: Gold)
An adjectival form of laurë “gold (light or colour)” (RGEO/62; PE17/61) appearing in its plural form laurië in the Namárië poem from The Lord of the Rings (LotR/377).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, the adjectival form of ᴱQ. laure was ᴱQ. laurina “golden” (QL/51), but ᴱQ. laurea “golden” appeared in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s (PE15/73), and Tolkien seems to have used that form thereafter.
References ✧ LotR/377; PE16/96; PE17/58, 61-62; RGEO/58, 62
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
laurie | plural | ✧ PE16/96 | |
laurië | plural | “like gold” | ✧ LotR/377 |
laurië | plural | “golden (pl.)” | ✧ RGEO/58 |
laurië | plural | “golden” | ✧ RGEO/62 |
láurië | plural | “like gold” | ✧ RGEO/58 |
Elements
laurë | “gold (light or colour)” | ✧ PE17/61; RGEO/62 |
#-a | “adjectival suffix” |
Element In
ᴹQ. laurea adj. “*golden” (Category: Gold)
Reference ✧ SD/47
Element In
ᴱQ. laurea adj. “golden” (Category: Gold)
Reference ✧ PE15/73 ✧ “golden”
Elements
laure | “(mystic name of) gold” | ✧ PE15/72 (†laure) |
#-a | “adjectival suffix” | ✧ PE15/73 (#-a) |
ᴱQ. laurina adj. “golden” (Category: Gold)
References ✧ LT1A/Laurelin; QL/51
Glosses
Elements
laure | “(mystic name of) gold” | ✧ LT1A/Laurelin; QL/51 |
#-ina | “adjectival suffix” | ✧ QL/51 (#-ina) |
Cognates