ᴺS. !alvar n. “(good) luck, fortune” (Category: Good Fortune)

ᴺS. !alvar, n. “(good) luck, fortune” (Category: Good Fortune)

N. galw “?increase, growth”

G. gwalthi “fortune, happiness”

G. gwalweth “fortune, happiness”

Cognates

• ᴹQ. almare “blessedness, blessings, good fortune, bliss”

Derivations

• < √AL(A) “good (physically), blessed, fortunate, prosperous, health(y)”

G. gwalt n. “good luck, any providential occurrence or thought” (Category: Good Fortune)

References ✧ GL/44; LT1A/Valar

Glosses

• “good luck, any providential occurrence or thought” ✧ GL/44; LT1A/Valar

Variations

• gwalt ✧ GL/44; LT1A/Valar
• †gwalod ✧ GL/44

Inflections

walt

soft-mutation; gw-mutation

“luck”

✧ GL/44

Element In

• G. i·walt na Vanion “the luck of the Valar” ✧ GL/44

Cognates

• ᴱQ. valto “the luck of the Valar” ✧ GL/44

Derivations

• < *ᴱ√WALA “fortune, happiness; *power” ✧ GL/44 (gwal); LT1A/Valar (GWAL)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√gwal > gwalt

[walto] > [gʷalto] > [gʷalt] > [gʷalθ] > [gʷalt]

✧ GL/44