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!
rí
noun. reed, grass-stem
Derivations
- ᴹ√RIY “*scatter, [ᴱ√] scatter” ✧ PE21/38
liske
noun. reed, reed, [ᴱQ.] sedge
A word mentioned in the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) of the 1930s, with the gloss “reed” and derived from primitive ᴹ✶lisge (PE19/51).
Conceptual Development: The word/root ᴱQ. LISKE “sedge, reeds” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/55). In the contemporaneous Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin, [ᴱQ.] liske was given as a cognate to G. lisg “reed” (PE15/28).
Cognates
- S. lisg “reed, reed, [G.] sedge”
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶lisge > liske [lisge] > [lizge] > [liske] ✧ PE19/051
A word appearing in the Declension of Nouns (DN) of the early 1930s glossed “grass-stem, reed” and derived from the root ᴹ√RĪI̯ as an example of a monosyllabic vocalic noun (PE21/38). In drafts of this section it was glossed only “reed” (PE21/41 note #147).