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!

Early Primitive Elvish

sara

root. *saw

Early Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by

þolo

root. *surf

Derivatives

  • Eq. sóla “tide” ✧ QL/085
  • Eq. solme “wave” ✧ LT1A/Solosimpi; QL/085
  • Eq. solor “surf, surge; wavebreak, coast” ✧ LT1A/Solosimpi; QL/085
  • Eq. solto- “to wave, heave, surge (up and down)” ✧ QL/085
  • En. thlos “shore, shore; [G.] breaker”
  • G. thloss “breaker” ✧ GL/73; LT1A/Solosimpi
    • G. floss “breaker” ✧ GL/35
  • G. thloth “breakers, waves, surf” ✧ GL/73
  • G. tholos “sea-marge” ✧ GL/73

Variations

  • thol- ✧ GL/33; GL/73
  • SOLO ✧ LT1A/Solosimpi; QL/085
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/33; GL/73; LT1A/Solosimpi; QL/085] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sara Speculative

root. *surf

A hypothetical root explaining various related words in Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. saros “surf, sea” and G. sôr “wave” (GL/67). There are no signs of this root being used this way in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

  • G. saros “surf, sea”
  • G. sôr “wave, billow”
Early Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by

þara Reconstructed

root. *saw

Changes

  • SAŘASARA ✧ QL/082

Derivatives

  • Eq. sara- “to saw” ✧ QL/082
  • Eq. sarat “plank” ✧ QL/082
  • Eq. sarma “saw” ✧ QL/082
  • Eq. sarno “table” ✧ QL/082
  • G. sard “table”
  • G. thar- “to saw (up)”
  • G. thrad “a plank, board, shelf”

Variations

  • SARA ✧ QL/082
  • SAŘA ✧ QL/082 (SAŘA)
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/082] Group: Eldamo. Published by