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Early Noldorin

crib-

verb. to bend

A verb in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s glossed “to bend” with a transitive variant ᴱN. crimtha-, both based on primitive ᴱ✶krikw- (PE13/141). The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. crictha- “to bend” (GL/27), perhaps based on the early root ᴱ√KṚKṚ though its Qenya derivatives mostly had to do with fangs and tusks (QL/48).

Early Noldorin [PE13/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by