Early Primitive Elvish
hiþi Speculative
root. *listen
Derivatives
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hiþi Speculative
root. *listen
Derivatives
A hypothetical early root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. hist “listening, attention” and hitha- “listen, hearken, listen to” (GL/49). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.