Eldamo : Early Quenya : yelma

ᴱQ. yelma n. “(a bout of) frost; a cold; chill” (Category: Ice, Frost)

⚠️ᴱQ. yelma, n. “(a bout of) frost; a cold; chill” (Category: Ice, Frost): Q. nixë “frost; ⚠️ice-flake or snow-flake”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ’yelma “a cold — a chill — a bout of frost” under the early root ᴱ√DẎELE “ring, sound hollow” (QL/106). The word yelma “frost” was also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/106).

References ✧ PME/106; QL/106

Glosses

“a cold; chill; a bout of frost” ✧ QL/106 (’yelma)
“frost” ✧ PME/106

Variations

yelma ✧ PME/106
’yelma ✧ QL/106

Derivations

< ᴱ√DYELE “*cold” ✧ QL/106 (DẎELE)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√DẎELE > ’yelma

[dʲelmā] > [dʲelma] > [jelma]

✧ QL/106