An unglossed root in a rejected paragraph from the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s (PE22/112 note #78).
Middle Primitive Elvish
thel(es)
root. sister
Derivatives
Element in
- Q. meletheldë “love-sister”
- ᴹQ. oselle “[sworn] sister, associate [f.]” ✧ Ety/WŌ
Variations
- THEL ✧ Ety/THEL; Ety/TOR; Ety/WŌ
- THELES ✧ Ety/THEL
khlip
root. [unglossed]
stā
root. [unglossed]
A deleted root reference in The Etymologies apparently serving as the basis for the verbal action suffix ᴹ✶-stā “-ing” in ᴹ✶khau̯-stā “rest-ing” (Ety/KHAW; EtyAC/KHAW). See the entry on ✶-stā for further discussion.
Derivatives
- ᴹ✶-stā “-ing” ✧ EtyAC/KHAW
phan
root. [unglossed]
A deleted root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no glosses or derivatives and no clear function (EtyAC/PHAN).
skil
root. [unglossed]
A root mentioned in passing in as a variant of ᴹ√KIL “divide” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, but it had no derivatives and appeared nowhere else (Ety/KIL).
stin
root. [unglossed]
iw
root. [unglossed], [ᴱ√] *fish
kaltwa
?. [unglossed]
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. kaltua “[unglossed]” ✧ PE19/048
Variations
- kalt-wa ✧ PE19/048
torōmā
noun. [unglossed]
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. toróma “[unglossed]” ✧ PE19/059; PE19/059
Variations
- torṓmā ✧ PE19/059
auluta-
verb. [unglossed]
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. olta- “[unglossed]” ✧ PE19/058
Variations
- áuluta- ✧ PE19/058
bay
root. [unglossed]
Variations
BAYA✧ EtyAC/WAY (BAYA)
kōmā
noun. [unglossed]
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. kóma “*ball” ✧ PE19/059; PE19/059
Variations
- kṓmā ✧ PE19/059
maiga
root. [unglossed]
An unglossed root appearing in the first version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa from the 1930s (TQ1) to illustrate certain patterns of root formation (PE18/66). It may have serving as the basis for ᴹQ. Maia, though this word was given different derivations later.
Variations
- maiga ✧ PE18/066
uruk
root. [unglossed]
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no glosses or derivatives and no clear function (EtyAC/URUK).
us
root. [unglossed]
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no glosses or derivatives and no clear function (EtyAC/US).
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.