mel-

verb. to love

Derivations

• ✶melā- “to love”
  • √MEL “love, love, [ᴹ√] love (as friend)”

Element in

• Q. mélamar “(emotional) home”
• Q. melima “loving, very affectionate, [ᴹQ.] loveable, fair; [Q.] loving, very affectionate”
• ᴺQ. melinólë “philosophy”
• Q. melin sé apa lanyë hé “I love him but not him (the other)” ✧ VT49/15
• Q. melinyes apa la hé “I love him but not him (the other)” ✧ VT49/15
• ᴺQ. mellaman “pet, (lit.) love-animal”

mel-

love (as friend)

mel- vb. "love (as friend)" (MEL). Melinyes or melin sé "I love him" (VT49:21). LR:70 has melánë"I love", a doubtful form in Tolkien's later Quenya (melin occurs in later material).

se

he, she, it

se (1) pron. "he, she, it" also object "him, her, it", 3rd person sg. Used "of living things including plants" (VT49:37; the corresponding inaimate pronoun is sa). The pronoun comes directly from se as the original stem-form (VT49:50). Stressed form sé, VT49:51, attested in object position in melin sé "I love him" (VT49:21). Ósë "with him/her", VT43:29; see ó-. Long dative/allative sena "[to/for] him" or "at him", VT49:14, allative senna "to him/her" (VT49:45, 46). Compare the reflexive pronoun insë *"himself, herself".

-ro

he

-ro pronominal ending "he", in antaváro, q.v. In Tolkiens later Quenya, the ending -s covers both "he", "she" and "it".

essë

he

essë (2) pron? "he" (and also "she, it"?), possible emphatic 3rd sg. emphatic pronoun, attested in the sentence essë úpa nas "he is dumb" (PE17:126)

mel-

verb. to love

Derivations

• √MEL “love, love, [ᴹ√] love (as friend)”

Element in

• S. Meldis “?Beloved Bride”
• ᴺS. mellavan “pet, (lit.) love-animal”
• S. melui “lovely, sweet”
• ᴺS. orvel- “to favour, *(lit.) love above”
• S. úvelui “not amiable, unloveable” ✧ PE17/145

e

pronoun. he

The meaning "he" is deduced from the apparent function of this word in the so-called "King's Letter", but it also seems possible to interpret it as "indeed" (as in Q. e, LR/63, VT/45:11), used here in a way of formal address expressing the wishes or the will of the King

e

pronoun. he

Cognates

• ᴹQ. e “he, she, it”

Element in

• S. ar e aníra ennas suilannad mhellyn în phain “and he desires to greet there all his friends” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129
• S. edregol e aníra tírad i Cherdir Perhael (i sennui Panthael estathar aen) Condir i Drann “in especial he desires to see Master Samwise (who should be called Fullwise) Mayor of the Shire” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129

e

he

1) e (SD:128-31), 2) ho, hon, hono. (The distinctions between these forms are unclear. Possibly ho is the nominative ”he”, whereas hon is the accusative ”him”. Hono could be an emphatic form. It may be that all of these pronouns, except e, are ”Noldorin” and were not maintained in Sindarin proper.)

e

he

(SD:128-31)

ho

he

hon, hono. *(The distinctions between these forms are unclear. Possibly ho is the nominative ”he”, whereas hon is the accusative ”him”. Hono could be an emphatic form. It may be that all of these pronouns, except e, are ”Noldorin” and were not maintained in Sindarin proper.)*

u

pronoun. he

A well-attested pronominal prefix, the masculine singular pronoun “he” (SD/433). See the entry on pronominal-prefixes for more discussion. Tolkien said that it had another variant hu- (SD/433), but this variant was only appears in the early and rejected hunekkū, which was changed to unekkū (see nakh-). Tolkien further indicated that the form u- primitively had an initial consonant [ɣ] or [ʔ] that was lost (SD/433).

Derivations

• √Ad. ƷU “he”

Variations

• u-/hu- ✧ SD/433

melā-

verb. to love

Derivations

• √MEL “love, love, [ᴹ√] love (as friend)”

Derivatives

• Q. mel- “to love”

Variations

• melā ✧ PE22/130; PE22/134; PE22/134

mela-

verb. to love

Derivations

• ᴹ√MEL “love (as friend)” ✧ EtyAC/MEL

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√MEL > melo	[mel-]	✧ EtyAC/MEL

ho

pronoun. he

ho

pronoun. he

Derivations

• ᴹ✶sū̆/sō̆ “masc., he” ✧ Ety/S
  • ᴹ√S “demonstrative stem” ✧ Ety/S

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶sū̆/sō̆ > ho	[so] > [ho]	✧ Ety/S

Variations

• hon ✧ Ety/S
• hono ✧ Ety/S

hon

pronoun. he

hon(o)

pronoun. he

hono

pronoun. he