Primitive elvish

ren

root. recall, have in mind

A root appearing in a 1968 essay The Problem of Ros with the gloss “recall, have in mind” and serving as an explanation for the name S. Elurín, there glossed “Remembrance of Elu” (PM/272 note #8).

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rēnē

noun. remembrance

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keule

noun. *renewal

Primitive elvish [VT48/08] Group: Eldamo. Published by

keurā

adjective. *renewed

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kēwā

adjective. fresh, new, renewed

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gwen

root. fresh, *green, fair, unblemished, beautiful

@@@ might still be valid for Quenya derivations in the Etymologies

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rak Reconstructed

root. break

This root appeared as ᴱ√RAKA “pile up” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with derivatives like ᴱQ. rakta- “pile, hoard, amass, collect” and ᴱQ. rakte “pile, heap” (QL/78). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, there are similar forms with different meanings: G. ractha “breach” and G. rag- “break asunder, burst” (GL/64). This conceptual shift from “pile up” to “✱break” is supported by the word ᴱQ. ranka “broken” in drafts of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem from the end of the 1920s (PE16/77). Q. rak- “break” reappeared in the revised version of that poem from the late 1960s (MC/222-223), implying the root remained valid or (more likely) was abandoned but later restored. Q. rakine “stripped” in phonetic notes from 1959-60 might be related.

kiris

root. cleave, cleave, [ᴹ√] cut, [ᴱ√] split

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