Quinzaine refer to a period during which parliament met according to a Writ of Summons by the King. A specific example would be 1257 parliamentum for which the Rolls were latterly destroyed, probably by fire in 19th or 20th centuries. Its significance lay in the Charters used to confirm parliament's right to sit and be summoned at a specific date. "Parliamntum" or "parliamentum generalissimum" could be called every quarter, that coincided with Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas terms, which also happened to be the legal terms for the Inns of Courts in Westminster and London. The quaint term of quindene was
English and Welsh including Welsh loanwords and substrate influence found in English, and conversely English loanwords in Welsh. Comparing the Germanic "i"-mutation and the Celtic affection, Tolkien says: In the final part of the lecture, Tolkien explores the concept of phonaesthetics, citing the phrase "cellar door" as a recognized beautiful-sounding phrase in English, adding that to his own taste, in Welsh ""cellar doors" are extraordinarily frequent". Tolkien describes the working of phonaesthetics inherent in the moment of association of sound and meaning: Tolkien alludes to his view that such tastes are inherited, "an aspect in linguistic terms of our individual natures. And since