timpë noun "fine rain" (LT1:268, Narqelion)
Quenya
mistë
fine rain
timpë
fine rain
rossë
fine rain, dew
rossë noun "fine rain, dew" (ROS1, PM:371)
Nandorin
meord
noun. fine rain
Primitive form given as mizdê, derived from a stem MIZD (LR:373) that is not defined, but Christopher Tolkien is undoubtedly right in observing that the stems MISK (yielding words for "wet") and MITH (yielding words for "wet mist" and "grey") are probably meant to be related to MIZD. The ending -ê seen in mizdê seems in this case to denote a substance. While final -ê sometimes becomes -a in Green-elven, it has here been lost; see beorn for some thoughts about this. This word alone shows eo from i, but cf. eo from e in beorn.
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Qenya
miste
noun. fine rain
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mizdē > miste [mizdē] > [mistē] > [miste] ✧ Ety/MIZD
Ossriandric
meord
noun. fine rain
A noun glossed “fine rain” that developed from primitive ᴹ✶mizdē (Ety/MIZD). It is clear than the [[dan|[z] became [r]]] and then the [[dan|[i] broke into the diphthong [eo] before the liquid [r]]], though it probably first became [iu] before being lowered to [eo].
Cognates
- ᴹQ. miste “fine rain” ✧ Ety/MIZD
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mizdē > meord [mizdē] > [mirdē] > [meordē] > [meord] ✧ Ety/MIZD
Early Quenya
timpe
noun. fine rain
A noun for “fine rain” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s from the early root ᴱ√TIPI (QL/92), also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/92).
Derivations
- ᴱ√TIPI “*spray” ✧ LT1A/Timpinen; QL/092
Element in
- Eq. súlimarya sildai, hiswa timpe “*slender columns of pearl, a dim rain” ✧ VT40/08
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√TIPI > timpe [timpē] > [timpe] ✧ QL/092 Variations
- timpë ✧ LT1A/Timpinen
mistë noun "fine rain" (MIZD, VT45:35)