A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s gloss “cover in” meaning “close with a roof, lid, canopy, etc.”, based on the early root ᴱ√tel- “cover in; close; finish” (GL/70).
Gnomish
-drin
suffix. suffix in the name of languages
-glin
suffix. suffix in the name of languages
-grin
suffix. suffix in the name of languages
ba
preposition. in
bi
preposition. in
abod
adverb. again; in return, in exchange; back
in(n)amreg
place name. In(n)amreg
santhi
noun. knowledge, experience (in) or skill (in)
teltha-
verb. cover in
A preposition for “in” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/21). With the article it has the form bi- and without the article b’- or ba, presumably pre-vocalic and pre-consonantal. It was equivalent to ᴱQ. ve “as, like”, which in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon was derived from the early root ᴱ√VĪ “as” (QL/101). On other pages of the Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien previously had G. avin “into”, G. bi “in”, G. bin “into”, and G. bir “in, within, inside”, all deleted but more in keeping with the Qenya Lexicon root (GL/20, 22).