Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : liltë

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] ^liltë n. “dance” (Category: to Dance)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] ^liltë, n. “dance” (Category: to Dance): ᴱQ. tantarë “dance”

See ᴱQ. lilt for discussion.

Cognates

ᴺS. ^lilt “dance”

Derivations

< ᴹ√LILT “dance”

ᴱQ. lilt n. “dance” (Category: to Dance)

A noun appearing in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s as ᴱQ. lilt “a dance” based on the early root ᴱ√LḶTḶ (QL/55), where short syllabic [ḷ] became [il] (PE12/11). In the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s, the noun form was lalta, probably with long syllabic [ḹ] becoming [al] (PE15/71).

Neo-Quenya: I would adapt this noun as ᴺQ. liltë “dance”, based on the later root ᴹ√LILT “dance” (Ety/LILT).

References ✧ PE15/71; PME/55; QL/55; VT40/8

Glosses

“a dance” ✧ QL/55
“dance” ✧ PE15/71 (lalta); PME/55

Variations

lilt ✧ PME/55; QL/55
lalta ✧ PE15/71
Lilta ✧ VT40/8

Element In

ᴱQ. lilta lie noldorinwa “*the dancing gnome-folk” ✧ VT40/8

Cognates

G. lalt “dance”

Derivations

< ᴱ√LḶTḶ “dance” ✧ QL/55

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√LḶTḶ > lilt

[lḷtǝ] > [lḷt] > [lilt]

✧ QL/55