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Middle Primitive Elvish

liw

root. *fish

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s whose derivatives had to do with fish, such as ᴹQ. lingwe and N. lhim “fish” (Ety/LIW). Q. lingwi “fish” appeared in some 1965 notes (NM/336), indicating the ongoing validity of √LIW. √LIW is probably a later iteration of ᴱ√IWI from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s that likewise was the basis for fish-words from this period, such as ᴱQ. ingwe and G. ing (QL/43; GL/51). The root ᴹ√IW also appeared in The Etymologies (EtyAC/IW), but was unglossed and had no derivatives, so it isn’t clear what Tolkien intended this root to mean in the 1930s, and it may well have been abandoned.

Changes

  • LINGWILIW ✧ Ety/LIW

Derivatives

  • Ilk. líw “fish” ✧ EtyAC/LIW
  • ᴹ✶liñwi “fish” ✧ Ety/LIW
    • Ilk. líw “fish” ✧ Ety/LIW
    • ᴹQ. lingwe “fish” ✧ Ety/LIW
    • N. lhim “fish” ✧ Ety/LIW
  • Q. lingwë “fish”

Element in

  • ᴹQ. lingwilóke “fish-dragon, sea-serpent” ✧ Ety/LOK

Variations

  • LINGWI ✧ EtyAC/LIW (LINGWI)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/LIW; Ety/LOK; EtyAC/LIW] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sliw

root. sickly

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “sickly”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. laiwa/N. flaew “sickly, sick, ill” and ᴹQ. líve/N. fliw “sickness” (Ety/SLIW). The root was first written as ᴹ√LIW (EtyAC/LIW). It is probably a later iteration of the unglossed root ᴱ√LEẆE from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. leuke “sick, ill; pallid, wan” and ᴱQ. leume “sickness” (QL/53).

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶slaiwā “sickly, sick, ill” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • ᴹQ. laiwa “sickly, sick, ill” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • On. thlaiwa “sickly, sick, ill” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • N. flaew “sickly, sick, ill” ✧ Ety/SLIW
  • ᴹ✶slīwē “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • ᴹQ. líve “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • On. thlīwe “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • N. fliw “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW
  • ᴹQ. laiwa “sickly, sick, ill” ✧ EtyAC/LIW
  • ᴹQ. líve “sickness” ✧ EtyAC/LIW
  • N. flaew “sickly, sick, ill” ✧ EtyAC/LIW
  • N. fliw “sickness” ✧ EtyAC/LIW
  • ᴺS. lhýda- “to make sick, sicken”

Variations

  • LIW ✧ EtyAC/LIW (LIW)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/SLIW; EtyAC/LIW] Group: Eldamo. Published by