Eldamo : Early Quenya : alva

ᴱQ. alva adj. “?lofty” (Category: High)

⚠️ᴱQ. alva, adj. “?lofty” (Category: High): ᴹQ. alwa “well-grown”

A word mentioned in The Qenya Phonology of the 1910s as derived from ᴱ✶alwa (PE12/24). That primitive form also appeared in Gnomish Lexicon Slips from this same period as the basis for G. alw(eg) “lofty” (PE13/109), so perhaps the Qenya word had a similar meaning.

Reference ✧ PE12/24

Cognates

G. alw(eg) “lofty (of living things, trees, men)”

Derivations

< ᴱ✶alwa “*lofty”
- < ᴱ√ALA² “spread‽”