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Early Primitive Elvish

res-rŭ

noun. kinsman, cousin

Derivations

  • ᴱ√REÞE “aid, support” ✧ QL/079

Derivatives

  • Eq. rendo “kinsman, cousin” ✧ QL/079
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/079] Group: Eldamo. Published by

rese

root. kinsman

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reðe

root. kinsman

The form reðe was a root added under ᴱ√RESE [REÞE] “aid, support” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with derivatives of ᴱ√RESE having to do with “kinship” reassigned to reðe, such as ᴱQ. renda “related, of the same kin or clan” and ᴱQ. resse “kinswoman, cousin” (QL/79). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien had a similar set of words likewise derived from distinct reth- vs. redh-, with the latter most likely being the basis for words like G. redhin “related” and G. ress “cousin (f.), relative” (GL/65). The root was given as RESE- “kinsman” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/79), but the addition of reðe may be later than that document.

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√RE(N)D to preserve these early kinship and cousin words, for which we have no later alternatives. It might be considered a variant of later root √RED “scatter, sow” (Ety/RED; PE19/91) and thus applied only to more distant kin.

Derivatives

  • Eq. renda “related, of the same kin or clan” ✧ QL/079
  • Eq. rendi “*kinship, kin, kindred, clan” ✧ QL/079
  • Eq. rendo “kinsman, cousin” ✧ QL/079
  • Eq. resse “kinswoman, cousin” ✧ QL/079
  • G. grendi “cousinship, family (in a wide sense)”
  • G. redhin “related” ✧ GL/65
  • G. ren(d) “cousin (m.), relative” ✧ GL/65
  • G. redhweg “cousin [m.]” ✧ GL/65
  • G. rest “kinship” ✧ GL/65
  • G. renni “family” ✧ GL/65
  • G. ress “cousin (f.), relative” ✧ GL/65
  • G. redhwin “cousin [f.]” ✧ GL/65
  • G. restu “out of land, abroad, away from home” ✧ GL/65

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Variations

  • redh- ✧ GL/65
  • RESE ✧ PME/079
  • reðe ✧ QL/079
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/65; PME/079; QL/079] Group: Eldamo. Published by