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Q. lav- v. (basic-verb) “to lick” (Category: to Lick)

Q. lav-, v. (basic-verb) “to lick” (Category: to Lick)

A verb for “to lick” based on the root √LAB of similar meaning (PE17/72; PE22/151-152; RGEO/59).

Conceptual Development: This verb dates all the way back to ᴱQ. lava- “lick” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s where it was derived from the early root ᴱ√LAVA (QL/52). It retained this form in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/134), and in The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared as ᴹQ. lavin “I lick” under the root ᴹ√LAB “lick” (Ety/LAB). The verb and root continued to appear regularly in Tolkien’s later writings.

References ✧ PE17/72; PE22/151-152; RGEO/59

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

lauva future   ✧ PE22/152
lavuva future   ✧ PE22/152
lava imperative   ✧ PE22/152
**lambe past   ✧ PE22/151: [from a possibly transient rejection of nasal-infixed past tenses]
lamne past   ✧ PE22/151
láve past   ✧ PE22/151
lāve past   ✧ PE17/72
lāve past “licked” ✧ RGEO/59

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

LABA > lamne [labne] > [lamne] ✧ PE22/151
labā́ > lava [labā] > [laβā] > [laβa] > [lava] ✧ PE22/152
laƀuvā > †lavuva [labuvā] > [laβuvā] > [laβuva] > [lavuva] ✧ PE22/152

ᴹQ. lav-¹ v. (basic-verb) “to lick” (Category: to Lick)

See Q. lav- for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/LAB; PE22/102, 104-105

Inflections

lave aorist “lick” ✧ PE22/102
lavin aorist 1st-sg “I lick” ✧ Ety/LAB
aláviéva future-perfect; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE22/105
láviéva future-perfect; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE22/105
láve past   ✧ PE22/102; PE22/104
láven past with-1st-sg-object   ✧ PE22/104
alávie perfect   ✧ PE22/102
lávielle perfect ?   ✧ PE22/104

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√LAB > lavin [labin] > [laβin] > [lavin] ✧ Ety/LAB
ᴹ√LAB > lave [labi] > [labe] > [laβe] > [lave] ✧ PE22/102

ᴱQ. lava- v. “to lick” (Category: to Lick)

See Q. lav- for discussion.

References ✧ PE16/134; QL/52

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

lāve past ✧ QL/52

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√LAVA > lava- [laβ-] > [lav-] ✧ QL/52