Hogwarts motto, anyone? Behold the linnod of the day!
Cíniel faulug lorel, avo echuiad vertho!
[Having seen a sleeping dragon, don't dare to wake him!]
faulug 'fire-breathing drake' < faw + lûg (Q. foa-lókë) [could also be fólug, I don't wish to obscure the meaning]
lor- 'sleep, slumber' (intrans.) (cf. Q. lor- < (O)L-OR)
Jenna Carpenter Apr 25, 2015 (20:31)
Ekin Gören Apr 26, 2015 (02:07)
Александр Запрягаев Apr 26, 2015 (09:52)
+Ekin Gören As +Fiona Jallings rightly pointed to me, olla(oltha)- is an impersonal verb, something like 'it sleeps to me'; in my headcanon, I'd expect some constructions like Balannor olthol/elthiel enni 'Valinor which I see/saw dreams about', and past participle olhannen (olhasten?!) is totally meaningless due to the verb's intransitivity.
But the meaning 'sleeping, slumbering' (state as opposed to 'having dreams') should be somehow rendered in the language; in Quenya there is lor- verb exactly for that; and knowing that the stem is OLOR, not OLOS, in 'mature', PE17-styled language, making a cognate is trivial. Hence, lorel is the simplest and safest method of yielding 'sleeping' in S.; so I employ it.
Jenna Carpenter Apr 26, 2015 (11:45)
Ekin Gören Apr 26, 2015 (12:02)
Александр Запрягаев Apr 26, 2015 (12:09)
Update: I found an actual Q. losta- 'to bloom' (PE17:26)!
Ekin Gören Apr 26, 2015 (12:42)
Jenna Carpenter Apr 26, 2015 (17:42)
Ekin Gören Apr 26, 2015 (18:03)
lor- for "to sleep" (still thinking though)
edlothia- for "to bloom/blossom"
losta- for, nothing at all.
Fiona Jallings Apr 26, 2015 (19:34)
Александр Запрягаев May 01, 2015 (17:35)
Fiona Jallings May 02, 2015 (00:46)