ᴹQ. landa² n. “plain” (Category: Plain, Field)
A noun for “a plain” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) of the 1940s derived from ᴹ√LAD “lie flat, be flat” with variants landa and lanna (PE22/126), the latter probably derived from *ladna with the voiced stop d becoming a nasal before nasal n. It might simply be the noun form of adjective ᴹQ. landa¹ “wide” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LAD).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d stick to the form landa, which appears in an inflected form landannar “to the plains” early in QVS (PE22/125).
References ✧ PE22/125-126
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| landannar | allative plural | “to the plains” | ✧ PE22/125 |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√LAD > lanna | [ladna] > [lanna] | ✧ PE22/126 |
| ᴹ√LAD > landa | [landa] | ✧ PE22/126 |