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Middle Primitive Elvish

rin

root. *circle

This root first appeared as unglossed ᴱ√RINI in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. rin (rind-) “year, circle” and ᴱQ. rinko “disc, orb, circle” (QL/80). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. rin- “revolve, return, come back; do again” and G. rinc “circular; disc, rondure” (GL/65), but also strengthened forms like G. †drinn “ring, disc” and G. drintha- “to turn (tr.), twist” (GL/30). The root reappeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. rinda/N. rhenn “circular” and ᴹQ. rinde/N. rhinn “circle” (Ety/RIN).

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KOR; Ety/RIN; Ety/YEN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ringi

root. cold

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/MITH; Ety/RINGI; EtyAC/RINGI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

rinki

noun. flourish, quick stroke

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/RIK(H); EtyAC/RIK(H)] Group: Eldamo. Published by

yenrinde

noun. year

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/YEN; EtyAC/YEN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lokko

noun. ringlet

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/LOKH] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nyel

root. ring, sing, give out a sweet sound

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NYEL; Ety/PHAL; Ety/SOL; EtyAC/NYELED; PE18/045] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nyol

root. ring

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ar

root. day

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “day” with various derivatives like ᴹQ. are, N. aur “day” and ᴹQ. arin “morning” (Ety/AR¹). In Tolkien’s later writings, the Quenya word for “day” became aurë (RC/727; S/190), and in 1957 Quenya Notes he devised a new etymology for these day-words from the root √UR “heat” as in ✶auri “heat, period of sun” (PE17/148). That opens the question whether the various 1930s Quenya “morning” words from ᴹ√AR remain valid, but many Neo-Quenya writers (including me) retain them since there aren’t really any good alternatives. They might be salvageable as derivatives of the later root √AS “warmth” (so that “day” = “hot” and “morning” = “warm”).

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ANA¹; Ety/AR¹; Ety/TUY] Group: Eldamo. Published by

thel(es)

root. sister

Tolkien gave this root in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√THEL and extended form ᴹ√THELES with the gloss “sister” and derivatives like ᴹQ. seler and N. thêl of the same meaning, both derived from the extended root as made clear by the Noldorin plural thelei < ON. thelehi (Ety/THEL). Hints of the roots continued use appear in the 1959 term Q. meletheldi “love-sisters” for close female friends (NM/20). In notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien gave Q. nésa and S. nethel as the words for “sister”, both from the root √NETH. Nevertheless, I think it is worth retaining ᴹ√THEL(ES) to represent more abstract notions of “sisterhood” for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin, for “metaphorical sister”s as opposed to Q. nésa/S. nethel for sisters by blood.

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/THEL; Ety/TOR; Ety/WŌ] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kor

root. round

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KOR; Ety/RIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

yen

root. year

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “year” with derivatives like ᴹQ. yén/N. în “year” (Ety/YEN). Tolkien’s ongoing use of words like Q. yén and S. ínias “annals” indicate its ongoing validity (LotR/377; MR/200), but in Quenya at least the meaning shifted to that of an “Elvish long year”, equal to 144 solar years (LotR/1107; MR/471; NM/84).

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/GENG-WĀ; Ety/LEP; Ety/RIN; Ety/YA; Ety/YEN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ari

noun. day

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/AR¹; EtyAC/AR¹] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lak

root. swift

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lepet

root. finger

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/LEP] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lisge

noun. reed

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