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Gnomish

limp(elis)

noun. drink of the fairies

Changes

  • limp → limfa “the drink of the fairies” ✧ GL/54
  • limpelis → limfelis ✧ GL/54

Cognates

  • Eq. limpe “drink of the fairies, fairy-drink, elfwine” ✧ GL/54; LT1A/limpë

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LIPI “*drip, drop” ✧ LT1A/limpë

Variations

  • limp ✧ GL/54; LT1A/limpë
  • limpelis ✧ GL/54; LT1A/limpë
Gnomish [GL/54; LT1A/limpë] Group: Eldamo. Published by

limfelis

noun. drink of the fairies

limfa

noun. drink of the fairies

A noun appearing as G. limp and longer limpelis in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “the drink of the fairies” (GL/54). Tolkien tentatively revised these in pencil to limfa and limfelis, and these two forms appeared in a name list from this same period (PE15/7). These forms did not appear again, but its Quenya cognate ᴹQ. limpe “wine” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LIP).

Cognates

  • Eq. limpe “drink of the fairies, fairy-drink, elfwine” ✧ PE15/07; PE15/07

Variations

  • limfelis ✧ GL/54; PE15/07
Gnomish [GL/54; PE15/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by