ᴹQ. kulu n. “gold (metal)” (Category: Gold)
The Etymologies of the 1930s had a pair of words kulu “gold (metal)” and kulo “gold (substance)” derived from the root ᴹ√KUL of similar meaning (Ety/KUL). However Tolkien revised the meaning of this root to “golden-red” and the derivatives of the root became color words: ᴹQ. †kullo “red gold” and ᴹQ. kulda or ᴹQ. kulina “flame-coloured, golden-red”.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. kulu “gold” under the early root ᴱ√KULU of the same meaning (QL/49). The word ᴱQ. kulu “gold” reappeared in the Early Qenya Grammar and English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s (PE14/46, 71; PE15/72) before being abandoned in The Etymologies of the 1930s, as noted above. In later writings, “gold (metal)” was Q. malta.
References ✧ Ety/KUL
Glosses
Variations
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√KUL > kulu | [kulū] > [kulu] | ✧ Ety/KUL |
| ᴹ√KULU > kulo | [kulu] > [kulo] | ✧ Ety/KUL |
ᴱQ. kulu n. “gold” (Category: Gold)
References ✧ LT1/100; LT1A/Laurelin; LT2A/Glingol, Parma Kuluinen; MC/220; PE14/46, 50, 71, 83-84, 110; PE15/22, 72-73; PE16/57, 60, 62, 72, 74, 77; PME/49; QL/49, 51
Glosses
Variations
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Inflections
| kulu(v)a | accusative | ✧ PE14/71 | |
| kulūva | adjectival | ✧ PE14/71 | |
| kulu(v)e | dative | ✧ PE14/71 | |
| Kuluinen | partitive | “Golden” | ✧ LT2A/Parma Kuluinen |
| kuluinen | partitive | “of gold” | ✧ PE14/46 |
| kuluinen | partitive | “pieces of gold” | ✧ PE14/50 |
| kuluinen | partitive | “(pieces) of gold” | ✧ PE14/83 |
| kuluinen | partitive | “golden” | ✧ PE14/110 |
| kuluinen | partitive | “golden, made of gold” | ✧ PE15/73 |
| kulu(i)ndon | similative | “like gold” | ✧ PE14/46 |
| kulundon | similative | “like gold” | ✧ PE14/46 |
| kulu- | stem | ✧ PE15/73 | |
| kuluva- | stem | ✧ PE15/73 |
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√KULU > kulu | [kulū] > [kulu] | ✧ QL/49 |