*mab*-[or maba-?] (i vâb, i mebir**) (seize). Only the ”Old Noldorin” form map- is cited in the source (LR:371 s.v. MAP)
Quenya
mapa-
grasp, seize
Sindarin
mab
grasp
mab
grasp
[or ✱maba-?] (i vâb, i mebir) (seize). Only the ”Old Noldorin” form map- is cited in the source (LR:371 s.v. MAP)****
Noldorin
mab
noun. grasp
Cognates
- Ilk. mâb “hand” ✧ EtyAC/MAP
Derivations
- ᴹ√MAP “lay hold of with hand, seize” ✧ EtyAC/MAP
Element in
- N.
Mablothren“*Empty-handed”Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MAPA > mab [mapa] > [map] > [mab] ✧ EtyAC/MAP
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Gnomish
clam(p)
noun. grasp, claw
Element in
- G. clamfa- “to grab, claw at” ✧ GL/26
Early Primitive Elvish
maha
root. grasp
Derivatives
- Eq. má “hand” ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed; QL/057
- Eq. makte “hold, grip, power, possession” ✧ QL/057
- Eq. maqa “handy, skilled (with hands)” ✧ QL/057
- Eq. makte “hand” ✧ QL/057
- Eq. mantl “glove” ✧ QL/057
- Eq. mára “mighty, power[ful], doughty; good, excellent, useful (of things)” ✧ QL/057
- En. maur “good”
- G. mora “good”
- G. maith “rule, power, permission”
- G. maitha- “to rule, govern, wield control, hold”
- G. manc “grip, grasp, hold” ✧ GL/55
- G. mô “hand” ✧ GL/55
- G. ma “with instrument or by agent” ✧ GL/55
Variations
- maχā ✧ GL/55
mapa- vb. "grasp, seize" (MAP; according to LT2:339 this word was struck out in the "Gnomish Lexicon" [where it was quoted as the cognate of certain Gnomish words], but it reappears in the Etymologies.) Earlier material gives map- "take" (PE16:133) or map- "seize, take" with pa.t. nampë (QL:59); it is unclear if the pa.t. of map(a)- is still nampë in LotR-style Quenya.