Noldorin 

megli

noun. bear

Noldorin [Ety/369, Ety/371, X/DL] mad-+glî "honey-eater". Group: SINDICT. Published by

megli

noun. bear, (lit.) honey-eater

A noun appearing as N. {magli >>} megli “bear” in The Etymologies, a combination of N. mad- “eat” and N. glî “honey”, hence more literally “honey-eater” (Ety/LIS, MAT; EtyAC/LIS, MAT), where dl > gl as was usual in Noldorin. This word also appeared in the phrase i vegli vorn “the black bear” in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s (PE22/33).

Conceptual Development: ᴱN. magli “a bear, honey-eater” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s.

Neo-Sindarin: The sound change dl > gl was not a feature of Sindarin, so most Neo-Sindarin writers adapt this word as ᴺS. medli “bear”, as suggested in HSD (HSD).

Changes

  • maglimegli “bear” ✧ Ety/LIS

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶madlī “honey-eater” ✧ Ety/LIS

Element in

  • N. i vegli vorn “the black bear” ✧ PE22/033
  • N. meglin “*bear-like” ✧ Ety/LIS
  • N. meglivorn “blackbear” ✧ Ety/LIS; EtyAC/LIS (magli) (mormagli); EtyAC/MAT (Mormagli); EtyAC/MAT (Meglivorn)

Elements

WordGloss
mad-“to eat”
glî“honey”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶mad-lī > megli[madlī] > [madli] > [medli] > [megli]✧ Ety/LIS

Variations

  • magli ✧ EtyAC/LIS (magli); EtyAC/MAT (magli)
Noldorin [Ety/LIS; Ety/MAT; EtyAC/LIS; EtyAC/MAT; PE22/033] Group: Eldamo. Published by

brôg

noun. bear

Noldorin [Ety/374] Group: SINDICT. Published by

brôg

noun. bear

A noun for “bear” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶morókō under the root ᴹ√MOROK (Ety/MORÓK), where the initial syllable reduced to m’rokō and then the initial mr became br.

Conceptual Development: A likely precursor to this word is ᴱN. gorch “bear” (also “fierce fighter”) from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/145, 149).

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. morko “bear” ✧ Ety/MORÓK

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MOROK “*bear” ✧ Ety/LIS
  • ᴹ✶morókō “bear” ✧ Ety/MORÓK
    • ᴹ√MOROK “*bear” ✧ Ety/MORÓK

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶morókō > brôg[morókō] > [mrokō] > [brokō] > [broko] > [brok] > [brog] > [brōg]✧ Ety/MORÓK

Variations

  • brog ✧ EtyAC/LIS
Noldorin [Ety/LIS; Ety/MORÓK; EtyAC/LIS] Group: Eldamo. Published by