Eldamo : Quenya : löa

Q. löa n. “(seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming” (Category: Year)

Q. löa, n. “(seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming” (Category: Year): ᴱQ. ‽latta “year”; ᴱQ. lúmen “year, period”

References ✧ CPT/1296, 1298; LotR/1107, 1112; MR/426, 471; NM/6, 10, 84; PE17/120, 159; PE22/168; PM/126; UT/327; UTI/loa, tuilë, yestarë; VT42/10

Glosses

Variations

coranar “(solar) year, (lit.) sun-round” versus löa “(seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming”
yén “Elvish long year (144 solar years)” versus löa “(seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming”

Inflections

Element In

ᴺQ. !illöa(va) “annual, yearly, per annum (year as item)”
ᴺQ. !löacasta “season, (lit.) year-quarter”
ᴺQ. !löasta “season, (lit.) year-part”
ᴺQ. !qualöa(va) “annual, yearly, perennial (year as whole)”
Q. ai! löar yassen palantírienyë andavanwë yárier “ah years in which looking far away I saw ages long-passed” ✧ CPT/1296; CPT/1297; CPT/1298
Q. löa yucainen avar Anduinë sí valútier “twenty years have flowed away down the Long River” ✧ CPT/1297; CPT/1298
Q. loëndë “mid-year (Númenórean calendar), *(lit.) year-middle”
Q. i aluvar coivienyo ëarello nantulë “that never in my life will return from the Sea” ✧ CPT/1296
Q. umbë nin i hríve nauva urra (si loa) “I have a feeling that winter will be bad (this year)” ✧ PE22/168

Cognates

Derivations

< ✶lawā “growing, blooming” ✧ PE17/159; VT42/10 (lawa)
- < √LAW “flourish (green), grow” ✧ PE17/159

Phonetic Developments

✶lawā > löa	[lawā] > [loa]	✧ PE17/159
✶lawa > loa	[lawa] > [loa]	✧ VT42/10

ᴱQ. loa n. “life” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

A noun for “life” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LAWA, apparently an alternate name of ᴱQ. Vána (QL/52).

Reference ✧ QL/52 ✧ Loa “life”

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√LAW̯A > Loa

[lawā] > [lawa] > [laua] > [loa]

✧ QL/52