Primitive elvish

gwā-ƀandina

adjective. met

Derivatives

  • S. govan- “to meet, come to same place” ✧ PE17/017
Primitive elvish [PE17/017] Group: Eldamo. Published by

met

root. end, finality

This root first appeared as ᴹ√MET “end” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/MET). It may have had a conceptual precursor in ᴱQ. met “mark, aim, object”, but that word was derived from ᴱ√MEKE and had a stem form mekt- (QL/60). In any case, met- appeared quite frequently for “end” words from the 1930s forward, and the root itself was mentioned in a list from the late 1950s or early 1960s where Tolkien clarified that it had to do with “finality” only, as opposed to √TEN which meant “end” in the sense “point aimed at” (VT49/24).

Derivatives

  • Q. metta “ending, end”
  • Q. mette “*end”
  • S. medui “end, final, last”
  • S. meth “last, last; [N.] end”

Element in

  • Q. métima “last, ultimate, final”
  • Q. Oromet “?Hill at the End”

Variations

  • met ✧ VT49/24
Primitive elvish [VT49/24] Group: Eldamo. Published by