ᴱ√FALA¹ root. “bare, nude”
- ⚠️ᴱ√FALA¹ root. “bare, nude”
- √PAR² “peel, *bare”
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bare, nude” with various derivatives of similar meaning (QL/37). This root appeared in the contemporaneous
Gnomish Lexicon as well, with derivatives such as G. falon “naked” and G. falt “bare” (GL/33). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.
References ✧ GL/33; QL/34, 37
Glosses
Variations
Derivatives
- > ᴱQ. avalta- “to strip, despoil, denude” ✧ QL/34; QL/37
- > ᴱQ. fal(a)toisi “meadow, grassland”
- > ᴱQ. falin “bare, nude, fallow, wild (of land)” ✧ QL/37
- > ᴱQ. falka¹ “naked, bare” ✧ QL/37
- ⇒ ᴱQ. falkasse(a) “bald” ✧ QL/37
- ⇒ G. falon “naked” ✧ GL/33
- ⇒ G. cafalon “bald, *(lit.) head-naked”
- > G. falt “bare” ✧ GL/33
- ⇒ G. faltha- “to strip, despoil, rob, make bare” ✧ GL/33
- > G. flad “sward, grass”
- > G. fôl “empty, bare, leafless (esp. of trees)” ✧ GL/33