S. lavan n. “animal” (Category: Animal)
A word for an “animal” in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60, where Tolkien said it “usually only applied to four-footed beasts, and never to reptiles or birds” (WJ/416). It was derived from the root √LAM in the sense “inarticulate voiced sound”.
Conceptual Development: ᴱN. lafn was mentioned as a cognate to ᴱQ. lama “animal” in the Early Qenya Phonology from the 1920s, derived from primitive ᴱ✶labna (PE14/70).
References ✧ WJ/388, 416
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| Levain | plural | ✧ WJ/388 |
| levain | plural | ✧ WJ/416 |
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| ✶laman(a)/lamān > lavan | [lamana] > [laman] > [lavan] | ✧ WJ/416 |
| ✶laman(a)/lamān > levain | [lamani] > [lemeni] > [lemein] > [lemain] > [levain] | ✧ WJ/416 |
ᴱN. lafn n. “*animal” (Category: Animal)
References ✧ PE14/70
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| leifn | plural | ✧ PE14/70 |
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G. cuid n. “animal, living creature” (Category: Animal)
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “living creature, animal” (GL/27), probably the cognate of a ᴱQ. koite “living thing, being, animal” from the early root ᴱ√KOẎO “have life” (QL/48). Cuid “animal” was also mentioned in the Gnomish Grammar (GG/9).
References ✧ GG/9; GL/27
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