lir

root. sing, trill

Changes

• LIR¹ → GLIR “sing, trill” ✧ EtyAC/LIR¹

Derivatives

• ᴹ✶laire “long lay” ✧ Ety/LIR¹
  • N. glaer “long lay, narrative poem” ✧ EtyAC/LIR¹
• ᴹQ. liri “finch”
• ᴹQ. laire “poem” ✧ Ety/GLIR
• ᴹQ. lir- “to sing, chant” ✧ Ety/LIR¹
• ᴹQ. liru- “to sing (gaily)”
• N. glaer “long lay, narrative poem” ✧ Ety/GLIR
• N. glir- “to sing, recite poem” ✧ Ety/GLIR; Ety/LIR¹
• N. glîr “song, poem, lay” ✧ Ety/GLIR; Ety/LIR¹

Variations

• GLIR ✧ Ety/GLIR; EtyAC/LIR¹
• g-lir ✧ Ety/LIR¹

lir

root. *row

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s server as the basis for N. lhîr “row” in N. oeglir “range of mountain peaks” (Ety/LIR²). Tolkien’s continued use of aeglir in his later writings (in Hithaeglir “Misty Mountains; Line of Misty Peaks”) indicates its ongoing validity (Let/180; RC/11).

Derivatives

• S. lîr “line, line, [N.] row”
• On. līre “row, range” ✧ Ety/LIR²
  • N. lhîr “row” ✧ Ety/LIR²

glir

root. sing, trill

lin

root. sing

Changes

• GLIN → LIN² “sing” ✧ Ety/GLIN
• GLIN → LIN² ✧ Ety/LIN²

Derivatives

• Ilk. lind “tuneful, sweet; *singing” ✧ Ety/TIN
• ᴹ✶lindā “sweet sounding” ✧ EtyAC/LIND
  • Ilk. lind “tuneful, sweet; *singing” ✧ Ety/LIND
  • ᴹQ. linda “fair, beautiful (of sound)” ✧ Ety/LIND
  • N. lhend “tuneful, sweet” ✧ Ety/LIND
• ᴹ✶lindē “*singing”
  • ᴹQ. linde “air, tune”
  • N. lhinn “air, tune”
• ᴹ✶lindō “singer” ✧ Ety/TUY
  • ᴹQ. lindo “singer, singing bird”
• ᴹQ. lindale “music” ✧ Ety/LIN²
• ᴹQ. linde “air, tune” ✧ Ety/GLIN; Ety/LIN²; Ety/TIN
• ᴹQ. lindo “singer, singing bird” ✧ Ety/LIN²
• ᴹQ. linwe “short lay”
• ᴹQ. lin- “to sing” ✧ Ety/GLIN
• N. glin- “to sing” ✧ Ety/GLIN
• N. glinn “song, poem, lay” ✧ Ety/GLIN
• N. lhinn “air, tune” ✧ Ety/LIN²; Ety/TIN

Element in

• ᴹ✶Lindān-d “musical land” ✧ Ety/LIN²
• ᴹQ. Laurelin “Song of Gold” ✧ Ety/GLIN (Laurelin); Ety/LIN²
• N. tuilinn “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer” ✧ Ety/LIN²

Variations

• GLIN ✧ Ety/GLIN (GLIN); Ety/LIN² (GLIN); EtyAC/GLIR