Early Primitive Elvish
qel+u
root. *well up
Derivatives
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Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
qel+u
root. *well up
Derivatives
An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, apparently a variant of ᴱ√KELU “flow, run; ooze, trickle”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. qelu “well, spring, source” and ᴱQ. qelu- “well up” (QL/76). See the entry on √KEL for later conceptual developments of similar roots.