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Early Primitive Elvish

sḷtḷ

root. *sift

The unglossed root ᴱ√SḶTḶ appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. silt- “sift, sort out, winnow” and ᴱQ. silta “sieve” (QL/84). Gnomish words G. thlid “sieve” and G. thlid- “to sort out, sift, sieve, discriminate” from contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon are clearly related, and the archaic past form salti (later thlinti) confirms the root was actually ᴱ√SḶTḶ (GL/73). A last hint of this root can be seen in ᴱQ. silte “sift” < ᴱ✶sḷt- with past salsie, a verb form appearing in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s (PE14/58).

Neo-Eldarin: I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√SILIT “sift” to salvage some of these early words.

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶sḷt- “to sift”
    • Eq. silt- “to sift, sort out, winnow” ✧ PE14/058
    • G. thlid- “to sort out, sift, sieve, discriminate”
  • ᴺQ. salta- “to strain, winnow”
  • Eq. silta “sieve” ✧ QL/084
  • Eq. silt- “to sift, sort out, winnow” ✧ QL/084
  • G. thlid “sieve”
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