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Middle Primitive Elvish

daram

root. beat, hew, beat, hew; [ᴱ√] batter, thud

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the glosses “beat, hew” (Ety/DARÁM). It is probably a later iteration on the early root ᴱ√TARA(MA) “batter, thud, beat” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/89). Its Gnomish forms DAR/D(A)RAM/DAM make clear the actual early root was ᴱ√DARA(MA), since initial d- > t- in Early Qenya. The last Gnomish form hints that the root in the 1930s might also have been related to ᴹ√(N)DAM “hammer, beat”.

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. narambo “bang, buffet”
  • ᴺQ. rambil(lë) “(small) drum”
  • N. dram “heavy stroke, heavy blow” ✧ Ety/DARÁM
  • N. drava- “to hew” ✧ Ety/DARÁM
  • N. drafn “hewn log” ✧ Ety/DARÁM

Variations

  • DARÁM ✧ Ety/DARÁM
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/DARÁM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pal

root. beat

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. palka- “to beat flat”
  • ᴹQ. palpa- “to beat, batter” ✧ EtyAC/PAL²

Variations

  • PAL ✧ PE18/033
Middle Primitive Elvish [EtyAC/PAL²; PE18/033] Group: Eldamo. Published by