Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : quilya-

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quilya- v. “to adorn, embellish, colour” (Category: Color)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quilya-, v. “to colour, color, embellish, *paint, ⚠️adorn” (Category: Color)

See ᴱQ. qilya- for discussion.

Derivations

< ᴺ√KWIL “colour”

ᴱQ. qilya- v. “to adorn, embellish, colour” (Category: Color)

A word appearing as ᴱQ. qilya- “adorn, embellish, colour” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QILI¹ (QL/77).

Neo-Quenya: I would retain ᴺQ. quilya- in the senses “to colour, embellish” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but for “adorn” I would use the later verb netya- (VT47/33). In the “Neologism of the Day” (NotD) series on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server on 2023-04-30, Luinyelle suggested ᴺQ. quilya- might also be used as the verb for “*to paint”.

References ✧ QL/77

Glosses

“adorn, embellish, colour” ✧ QL/77

Variations

qilya- ✧ QL/77
qilta- ✧ QL/77

Changes

qilta- >> qilya- “adorn, embellish, colour” ✧ QL/77
qiltane >> qīlline ✧ QL/77

Inflections

qiltane	past	✧ QL/77
qīle	past	✧ QL/77
qīlline	past	✧ QL/77

Derivations

< ᴱ√QILI¹ “*colour” ✧ QL/77

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√QILI¹ > qilya-

[kʷilja-]

✧ QL/77