Quenya 

lelya-

go, proceed (in any direction), travel

lelya- (1) vb. "go, proceed (in any direction), travel", pa.t. lendë / elendë (WJ:363, VT14:5, PE17:139) At one point Tolkien assigned a more specific meaning to the underlying root LED: "go away from the speaker or the point in mind, depart" (PE17:52), which would make lelya- a near synonym of auta-. The same source denies that the derivatives of _LED _were used simply for "go, move, travel", but elsewhere Tolkien assigns precisely that meaning to lelya-.

lenna-

go

lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.

men-

go

#men- (4) vb. "go" (VT47:11, cf. VT42:30, VT49:23), attested in the aorist (menë) in the sentence imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië "between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon". In the verb nanwen- "return" (or go/come back), -men- is changed to -wen- following nan- "back" (etymological form cited as nan-men-, PE17:166). In examples from VT49:23, 24, Tolkien used men- in the sense of "go as far as": 1st person sg. aorist menin (menin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist menë, present tense ména- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense mennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative (mennen sís "I arrive[d] here"), perfect eménië "has just arrived", future menuva "will arrive". All of these examples were first written with the verb as ten- rather than men-, Tolkien then emending the initial consonant.

vanya-

go, depart, disappear

vanya- (2) vb. "go, depart, disappear", pa.t. vannë (WAN). The verb auta- may have replaced this word in Tolkien's later conception.

Sindarin 

bad

go

#bad- (i vâd, i medir), pa.t. bant. Isolated from trevad- ”traverse”.

bad

go

(i vâd, i medir), pa.t. bant. Isolated from trevad- ”traverse”.

Primitive elvish

led

root. go, proceed, go, proceed, [ᴹ√] fare, travel

This root appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/LED) and in some later writings (PE17/51, 139) with the basic sense “go”. In the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60, Tolkien decided that √LED was a Quenya-only variant of the original root √DEL (WJ/360, 363). Elsewhere, Tolkien said that √LED was “not much used in Sindarin except in compounds with ✶et ‘out’ as edlen(n)” (PE17/51). Its Sindarin derivative S. lembas “way bread” was reassigned to √LEN (PE17/60). See √DEL and √LEN for further discussion.

Derivatives

  • etlendā “exiled” ✧ PE17/051
  • ledmē “leaving, departure” ✧ PE17/051
    • Q. lenwë “leaving, departure” ✧ PE17/051
  • lednē ✧ PE17/051
  • ledya- ✧ WJ/363
    • Q. lelya- “to go, proceed (in any direction), travel”
  • ᴺQ. etelenda “exiled”
  • ᴺQ. etelerro “exile”
  • Q. lenna- “to come, to come; [ᴹQ.] to go, depart” ✧ PE17/139
  • Q. lenda- “to go free”
  • ᴺQ. lendë “journey”
  • S. glenna- “*to travel”
  • ᴺS. lîdh “journey”

Element in

  • le(n)dembassē “bread taken on leaving home (for a long journey)” ✧ PE17/052
  • S. lembas “waybread, journey-bread” ✧ PE17/051

Variations

  • led- ✧ WJ/363
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Middle Primitive Elvish

led

root. go, fare, travel

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. Elda “Elf” ✧ Ety/ELED
  • ᴹQ. lenna- “to go, depart; to come” ✧ Ety/LED
  • ᴹQ. lesta- “to leave” ✧ Ety/ELED
  • N. Eledh “Star-folk, Elf” ✧ Ety/ELED
  • On. led- “to fare” ✧ Ety/LED; EtyAC/LED
    • N. ledh- “to go, to go, *travel, journey”

Element in

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men

root. go, proceed

Changes

  • MENMEN “aim at, intend, purpose; (allative) make for, proceed towards” ✧ PE22/103

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. men “place, spot” ✧ Ety/MEN
  • ᴹQ. men- “to wish, mean, intend” ✧ PE22/103
  • ᴹQ. mena- “to be making for, be on way to”
  • ᴹQ. ména “region” ✧ Ety/MEN
  • N. men “*place”

Element in

  • ᴹQ. formen “north, right hand” ✧ Ety/MEN; Ety/MEN; Ety/PHOR
  • ᴹQ. hyarmen “south, left hand” ✧ Ety/MEN
  • ᴹQ. númen “west” ✧ Ety/MEN; Ety/NDŪ
  • ᴹQ. omentie “meeting”
  • ᴹQ. rómen “east” ✧ Ety/MEN; Ety/RŌ
  • N. forven “north” ✧ Ety/PHOR
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ba(n)

root. go, proceed

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶-bā ✧ PE22/097
    • ᴹQ. -(u)va “future suffix” ✧ PE22/097
  • ᴹQ. vanwa “gone (for good), departed, vanished, lost, past, over, dead” ✧ PE22/097; PE22/106; PE22/112

Variations

  • BĀ/BANA ✧ PE22/097
  • vā- ✧ PE22/106 (vā-)
  • BA ✧ PE22/112
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