Eldamo : Early Quenya : vaile

ᴱQ. vaile n. “covering, *sheath” (Category: to Cover)

⚠️ᴱQ. vailë, n. “covering, *sheath” (Category: to Cover): Q. vailë “[strong] wind, *gale”; ᴹQ. telmë “hood, covering”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “covering” under the early root ᴱ√VAẎA “enfold, wind about” (QL/100). In an untranslated sentence from the 1920s it seems to be used for the sheath of a sword: ᴱQ. unlunke naiqe yu vaile·na ar elle ha men ambostuva, probably meaning something like “*he pulled his sword from the sheath and drove it into the breast” as suggested by the editors (PE16/146).

References ✧ PE16/146; QL/100

Glosses

“covering” ✧ QL/100

Element In

ᴱQ. unlunke naiqe yu vaile·na ar elle ha men ambostuva “*he pulled his sword from the sheath and drove it into the breast” ✧ PE16/146

Cognates

G. bail “sheath, case, cover; pod”

Derivations

< ᴱ√VAẎA “enfold, wind about” ✧ QL/100

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√VAẎA > vaile

[βaðʲlē] > [βaðʲle] > [vaðʲle] > [vajle] > [vaile]

✧ QL/100