Q. Víressë n. “April, *Freshness” (Category: Names of the Months)
Name of the fourth month of the year in the Westron calendar corresponding to “April” (LotR/1110, 1112). It is apparently based on the root ᴹ√WIR “fresh, young”, so perhaps meaning “*Freshness”.
Conceptual Development: In drafts of The Lord of the Rings appendices, this name was already ᴹQ. Víresse with an alternate name ᴹQ. Ertuile “First Spring” = ᴹQ. er “one” + ᴹQ. tuile “spring” (PM/134-135). In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien gave various other words for “April”: ᴱQ. Lunde Timpínea meaning “*Month of Showers” [timpínea “full of fine showers”] (QL/56) and ᴱQ. Tuiléris based on ᴱQ. Tuilére “Spring” (QL/96).
References ✧ LotR/1110, 1112; UTI
Glosses
Elements
| ᴹ√WIR | “new, fresh, young” |
| #-ssë² | “abstract noun” |
Cognates
ᴹQ. Ertuile n. “April, *First-spring” (Category: Names of the Months)
Reference ✧ PM/135 ✧ Ertuilë “April”
Related
Elements
| er | “one, alone” |
| tuile | “spring, spring-time” |
ᴹQ. Víresse n. “April, *Freshness” (Category: Names of the Months)
Reference ✧ PM/134 ✧ Víressë “April”
Related
Elements
| virya | “fresh” |
| #-sse² | “abstract noun” |
Cognates
ᴱQ. Lunde Timpínea n. “April”
A name for the month of April in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/56), a combination of lunde “month” and timpínea “showery” (i.e. “April showers”).
Reference ✧ QL/56 ✧ (Lunde) timpīnea “April”
Elements
| lunde | “(lunar) month; (lit.) period” | ✧ QL/56 |
| timpínea | “made of spray, full of fine showers, showery (of weather)” | ✧ QL/56 (timpīnea) |