Primitive elvish
mat-
verb. to eat
Derivations
- √MAT “eat”
Derivatives
Element in
Variations
- mata ✧ VT39/09
mat
root. eat
Derivatives
- ✶ammat- “to devour, eat up” ✧ PE18/085; PE18/088
- ✶
amtā✧ PE18/085; PE18/087
- Q. anta “jaw” ✧ PE18/085
- ✶mammata- “to gobble up, devour” ✧ PE22/136
- Q. mammata- “to gobble up; to go on eating, gorge oneself, to gorge (oneself), gobble up, [ᴹQ.] devour; [Q.] (lit.) to go on eating”
- ✶masta- “to feed up, fatten” ✧ PE18/095
- ᴺS. masta- “to [put to] feed, graze”
- ✶mat- “to eat”
- ✶matwā
- S. maud “[unglossed]” ✧ PE17/148
- ✶matyā- “to feed”
- ✶maita- “to feed” ✧ PE18/095
- Q. anto “mouth, mouth [as a thing for eating]; [ᴱQ.] jaw”
- Q. maita “hungry” ✧ VT39/11
- Q. mat- “to eat” ✧ VT39/07
- ᴺS. mâd “meal”
- ᴺS. mast “fodder, feed, food, nourishment”
- ᴺS. math “food”
Element in
- ᴺ✶. womātē “*community, (lit.) eating-together”
Variations
- mata ✧ VT39/05
- MATA ✧ VT39/07
matˢtimā
adjective. edible
Derivatives
- Q. mastima “edible” ✧ PE22/137
Elements
Word Gloss mat- “to eat” -imā “possibility”
bani
adjective. fair
Element in
Variations
- vanĭ ✧ PE17/057
wanyā
adjective. fair
Derivations
- √(G)WAN “pale, fair” ✧ WJ/383
Derivatives
Variations
- wanjā ✧ WJ/380; WJ/383
This was the root for eating words for all of Tolkien’s life, appearing very regularly. It was ᴱ√MATA “eat” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/59), ᴹ√MAT “eat” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/MAT), and √MAT “eat” in etymological notes from the late 1960s (VT48/26), among its many other appearances. This puts it among the most conceptually stable of Elvish roots.