Early Primitive Elvish
pṛtṛ Reconstructed
root. judge
Derivatives
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A hypothetical root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such G. pridu- “decide” and G. pridwir “judge” (GL/64). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.