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lepe

root. *finger

Variations

  • lepe ✧ PE13/148

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶lept- ✧ PE13/148
    • En. lhê “finger” ✧ PE13/148
  • Eq. lempe “crook, hook” ✧ QL/053
  • Eq. lep- “to take”
  • Eq. let “finger” ✧ QL/053
  • Eq. lepsile “tendril” ✧ QL/053
  • Eq. lepta “hooked (as a tendril)” ✧ QL/053
  • G. leb- “to pick, pluck, take or feel or touch with fingers, cull”
  • G. leptha “finger”
  • G. lemp “crooked finger; little finger”
  • G. lempa- “to beckon, crook the finger”
Early Primitive Elvish [PE13/148; QL/053] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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