Quettaparma Quenyallo

lala- (1) vb. "laugh" (PM:359), possibly with pa.t. *landë because the stem is given as g-lada-.

lala- (2) vb. "to deny" (LA)

lala (3) negation "no indeed not, on the contrary" ("also used for asking incredulous questions") (LA)

lalantila ??? (Narqelion)

lalmë noun "elm-tree" (ÁLAM). Cf. alvë in a post-LotR source.

Lalwendë (also short Lalwen) noun "Laughing Maiden", fem. name (PM:343)

láma noun "ringing sound, echo" (LAM)

laman (lamn- or simply laman-, as in pl. lamni or lamani) noun "animal" (usually applied to four-footed beasts, and never to reptiles and birds; a more general word may be #celva) (WJ:416)

lamárë noun “flock” (QL:50)

lámatyávë (pl. lámatyáver attested) noun "sound-taste" (láma + tyávë), individual pleasure in the sounds and forms of words (MR:215, 471)

lamba (1) noun "tongue" (physical tongue, while lambë = "language") (WJ:394, LAB; according to VT45:25, Tolkien first wrote lambe, but as noted, this alternative form is rather used for "tongue" in the sense of "language")

lamba (2) noun ?"hammer" (possibly an alternative form of namba, q.v., but the source is obscure and namba is to be preferred) (VT45:37)

lambë noun "tongue, language" (the usual word for 'language' in non-technical use) (WJ:368, 394, ÑGAL/ÑGALAM), "the language or dialect of a particular country or people...never used for 'language' in general, but only for particular forms of speech" (VT39:15); also name of tengwa #27 (Appendix E). (In early "Qenya", lambë was defined as "tongue" of body, but also of land, or even = "speech" [LT2:339]. In LotR-style Quenya lambë only means "tongue = speech", whereas the word for a physical tongue is lamba.) Lambë Valarinwa "Valarin tongue" (WJ:397), lambë Quendion "the language of the Elves" (PM:395), Lambengolmor pl. noun "Loremasters of Tongues", a school founded by Fëanor (WJ:396); sg. #Lambengolmo. Spelt Lambeñgolmor in VT48:6.

lambelë noun "Language" (especially with reference to phonology), *"phonetics" (VT39:15)

#lambetengwë noun "consonant" (as a tengwë or phoneme), literally "tongue-signs". Only pl. lambetengwi ("ñ") is attested (VT39:16)

lambina adj. “of tongue, spoken with tongue” (PE17:46). Cf. lambë.