Primitive elvish
mir
root. precious; esteem, value
Changes
MIR→ MIR “precious” ✧ PE17/037Derivatives
- ✶mīrĭ “precious, precious thing” ✧ PE17/165
- Q. mimírima “very beautiful” ✧ PE17/165
- Q. mírë “jewel, gem, precious thing, treasure; precious” ✧ PE17/037; PE17/165
- Q. mírima “very valuable, very precious, very lovely” ✧ PE17/037
- ᴺQ. mirma “value, *price”
- Q. mirwa “precious, valuable” ✧ PE17/037
- Q. mirya “beautiful, lovely (of works of art only)” ✧ PE17/165; PE17/165
- ᴺS. meru “valuable, worthy”
Element in
- ✶
miru̯(a)-wōrĭ“precious juice” ✧ PE17/037 (miru̯(a)-wōrĭ)- ᴺQ. mirmairë “jewelry, (lit.) jewel-art”
- ᴺQ. mirta- “to value, esteem, treasure, cherish”
- Q. miruvórë “mead, nectar, special wine or cordial, drink of the Elves, (lit.) precious juice, mead, nectar, special wine or cordial, drink of the Elves, (lit.) precious juice, [ᴱQ.] sweet drink” ✧ PE17/037
- S. mirith “jewelry”
- ᴺS. mirtha- “to value, esteem, treasure, cherish”
Variations
- MĬR ✧ PE17/150; PE17/165
min
cardinal. one
Derivations
- √MIN “one, first of a series, one, first of a series; [ᴹ√] stand alone, stick out”
Derivatives
- Q. min “one, one, [ᴱQ.] one (in a series), the first”
Element in
Variations
- Min ✧ NM/060
imin
masculine name. One
Element in
- Q. Imillië “Company of Imin”
The first appearance of this root was as ᴱ√MIRI “smile”, along with variant ᴱ√MṚT͡YṚ and derivatives like ᴱQ. mire “smile” and ᴱQ. mirmile “ripple of laughter” (QL/61). However, in The Etymologies of the 1930s unglossed ᴹ√MIR had derivatives like ᴹQ. míre/N. mîr “jewel, precious thing, treasure” (Ety/MIR), senses these words retained thereafter. The root √MIR appeared several times in Tolkien’s later writings with glosses like “esteem, value” (PE17/37) or “precious” (PE17/165).