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Middle Primitive Elvish

mis

root. go free, stray, wander

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “go free, stray, wander”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. mista-/N. mista- “stray (about)”, ᴹQ. mirima “free” and N. mist “error, wandering” (Ety/MIS). It was originally just glossed “free” (EtyAC/MIS).

Changes

  • MISMIS “free” ✧ Ety/MIS

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. mirima “free” ✧ Ety/MIS
  • ᴹQ. mista- “to stray about” ✧ Ety/MIS
  • N. mist “error, wandering” ✧ Ety/MIS
  • N. mista- “to stray about” ✧ Ety/MIS

Variations

  • MIS ✧ Ety/MIS; EtyAC/MIS (MIS)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/MIS; EtyAC/MIS] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mis

root. *wet

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no derivatives of its own but two extended roots ᴹ√MISIK and ᴹ√MISID; probably the sense of the base root was “✱wet” (EtyAC/MIZD). It was also Tolkien’s intent that this ᴹ√MIS² be the basis for ᴹ√MITH “✱grey, mist” by way of blending with ᴹ√KHITH “mist, fog” (EtyAC/MITH). Extended ᴹ√MISIK or ᴹ√MISK had derivatives ᴹQ. miksa/N. mesg “wet” (Ety/MISK) and extended ᴹ√MISID or ᴹ√MIZD had various different meanings in derived languages: ᴹQ. miste “fine rain” vs. N. mîdh “dew” vs. Dor. mîd “moisture” (Ety/MIZD). The root ᴹ√MIZDI also appeared in both the first and second versions of Tengwesta Qenderinwa from the 1930s (TQ1: PE18/43) and around 1950 (TQ2: PE18/93).

Note that in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s there was a root ᴱ√MISI “mingere [Latin = urinate]” with a derivative ᴱQ. mis “urine” (QL/62); this might have been a precursor to 1930s ᴹ√MIS² “✱wet”.

Changes

  • MIS²MIZD ✧ Ety/MIZD

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. mis “urine”

Element in

  • ᴹ√MISIK “*wet” ✧ EtyAC/MIZD
  • ᴹ√MIZDI “*fine rain, dew” ✧ EtyAC/MIZD
Middle Primitive Elvish [EtyAC/MITH; EtyAC/MIZD] Group: Eldamo. Published by

misik

root. *wet

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. miksa “wet, wet, *damp” ✧ Ety/MISK
  • N. mesg “wet” ✧ Ety/MISK

Variations

  • MISK ✧ Ety/MISK; Ety/MIZD; EtyAC/MIZD
  • MISÍK ✧ EtyAC/MISK; EtyAC/MIZD
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/MISK; Ety/MIZD; EtyAC/MISK; EtyAC/MIZD] Group: Eldamo. Published by

linkwi

root. *wet

Derivations

  • ᴹ√LIN “pool” ✧ Ety/LIN¹

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. linqe “wet, wet, [ᴱQ.] flowing; water, stream” ✧ Ety/LINKWI
  • N. lhimmid(a)- “to moisten” ✧ Ety/LINKWI
  • N. lhimp “wet” ✧ Ety/LINKWI

Variations

  • LIÑKWI ✧ EtyAC/LIN¹
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/LINKWI; EtyAC/LIN¹] Group: Eldamo. Published by