Early Primitive Elvish
mṛðṛ
root. grind
Derivatives
Element in
- G. brithla “pearl”
Variations
- MṚŘṚ ✧ QL/059; QL/063
mṛřṛ
root. grind
m(b)ṇðṇ
root. bind
Changes
MANÐAN→ Mᵇ(A)NÐ(A)N ✧ QL/058Derivatives
Variations
- mᵇṇřṇ ✧ PME/058
- Mᵇ(A)NÐ(A)N ✧ QL/058
- MAND ✧ QL/058
- MANÐAN ✧ QL/058 (
MANÐAN)- MṆÐṆ ✧ QL/063
hotho
root. bind
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ᴱ√MṚŘṚ with derivatives like ᴱQ. mar (mard-) “grit, course grain or powder”, ᴱQ. mard- “grind, pulverize” and ᴱQ. marma “sand” (QL/63). In a list of roots at the end of the M-section, ᴱ√MṚÐṚ was gloss “grind” (QL/63). Early in the M-section Tolkien had the root {ᴱ√MAŘA² >>} ᴱ√MARA as a dialectical variation or byform of ᴱ√MṚŘṚ, with the derivative ᴱQ. marilla “pearl” (QL/59); see that entry for details. The Gnomish cognate of ᴱQ. marilla was given as G. brithla “pearl” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/24), and this Gnomish word probably a derivative of ᴱ√MṚÐṚ. In that document these words served as the base for ᴱQ. Silmaril and its Gnomish equivalent G. Silubrilt (GL/67). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, and Q. Silmaril was given different etymologies later on.