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Middle Primitive Elvish

dar

root. stay, wait, stop, remain

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “stay, wait, stop, remain” with derivatives N. dar- “stop, halt” and N. dartha- “wait, stay, remain, last, endure” (Ety/DAR). Given the appearances of the command S. daro in The Lord of the Rings, unglossed but clearly meaning “stop!” or “halt!”, this root almost certainly survived in Tolkien’s later conceptions (LotR/342). It was probably also the basis of the words Q. lár/S. daur “league”, which Tolkien said originally meant “stop, pause” (UT/279).

Derivatives

  • Q. lár “league; †stop, pause”
  • ᴺQ. larta- “to wait, stay, remain, last, endure”
  • S. dar- “*to stop, halt, [N.] to stop, halt”
  • N. dar- “to stop, halt” ✧ Ety/DAR
  • N. dartha- “to wait, stay, remain, last, endure” ✧ Ety/DAR
  • S. daur “league; †stop, pause”

Element in

  • ᴺQ. mendar “station, (lit.) way-stop”
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/DAR] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tap

root. stop

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “stop” with derivatives like ᴹQ. tampa “stopper” and ᴹQ. tape “he stops, blocks” (Ety/TAP; EtyAC/TAP). The word Q. tapta “impeded” from notes associated with the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 was probably related (VT39/17), indicating the root’s ongoing validity.

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. tampa “stopper” ✧ Ety/TAP
  • ᴹQ. tap- “to stop, block” ✧ Ety/TAP
  • Q. tapta “impeded”
  • ᴺS. tab- “to stop, block, close”
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/TAP] Group: Eldamo. Published by