Eldamo : Sindarin : calen

S. calen adj. “green; fresh, vigorous; †bright” (Category: Green)

S. calen, adj. “green; †bright, [N.] bright-coloured; ⚠️[S.] fresh, vigorous” (Category: Green): G. cwiliog “bright-hued”; ᴱN. lhaiw “green”; G. laib “green”; G. laibrin “green, fresh, youthful”; G. laug “(of plants) alive, having sap, green, vigorous”

References ✧ Let/282; PE17/77, 120, 153; RC/349; SA/calen, kal; UT/281; VT42/19

Glosses

Variations

calen “green, fresh, vigorous” sense due to interchange with √GAL “grow, flourish, be vigorous, bloom” ✧ PE17/153
laeg “green” is archaic for calen “green” ✧ Let/282

Inflections

Galen	soft-mutation; c-mutation		✧ SA/calen
Galen	soft-mutation; c-mutation	“green”	✧ UT/281
galen	soft-mutation; c-mutation		✧ PE17/77; PE17/153: after a singular noun
galen	soft-mutation; c-mutation		✧ SA/calen; SA/kal
Gelin	soft-mutation plural; c-mutation	“green”	✧ SA/calen

Element In

Cognates

Q. calima “bright, luminous” ✧ PE17/153
Q. calina “light, bright, sunny, (lit.) illumined” ✧ PE17/153 (kălina); VT42/19 (kalina)

Derivations

< √KAL “light; shine, be bright” ✧ PE17/153; PE17/153; SA/calen; SA/calen; SA/kal

Phonetic Developments

N. calen adj. “green, (orig.) bright-coloured” (Category: Green)

References ✧ Ety/KAL; LR/305

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

galen

soft-mutation; c-mutation

“green”

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√KAL > calen

[kalinā] > [kalina] > [kalena] > [kalen]