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Middle Primitive Elvish

thin

root. *grey

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶thindi “pallid, grey, wan” ✧ Ety/THIN
    • Ilk. thind “grey” ✧ Ety/THIN
    • ᴹQ. sinde “grey, pale” ✧ Ety/THIN
    • N. thinn “grey, pale” ✧ Ety/THIN
  • ᴹQ. sinta- “to fade, *(lit.) become grey” ✧ Ety/THIN
  • ᴹQ. sinye “evening” ✧ Ety/THIN
  • N. thîn “evening” ✧ Ety/THIN
  • On. thintha- “to fade” ✧ Ety/THIN
    • N. thinna- “to fade, *(lit.) become grey” ✧ Ety/THIN
  • ᴹT. Findo ✧ Ety/THIN
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/THIN; Ety/TIN; Ety/WIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tainā

adjective. long

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TAY “extend, make long(er), stretch” ✧ PE18/057

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. taina “lengthened, extended, prolonged”

Variations

  • taı̯nā ✧ PE18/057
Middle Primitive Elvish [PE18/057] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nindi

root. fragile, thin

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fragile, thin” with derivatives like ᴹQ. ninde/N. ninn “slender” (Ety/NIN-DI), replacing deleted ᴹ√NIN-DA “blue” (EtyAC/NIN-DI) which was probably a later manifestation of ᴱ√NINI “✱blue” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/66). ᴱ√NINI had derivatives in both Qenya and Gnomish in the 1910s, but there are no signs of nin- as “blue” in Tolkien’s later writing.

Changes

  • NIN-DANIN-DI “blue” ✧ Ety/NIN-DI

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. ninde “slender” ✧ Ety/NIN-DI
  • N. ninn “slender” ✧ Ety/NIN-DI

Variations

  • NIN-DI ✧ Ety/NIN-DI
  • NIN-DA ✧ EtyAC/NIN-DI (NIN-DA)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NIN-DI; EtyAC/NIN-DI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

winyē

noun. evening

Changes

  • winyāwinyē “evening” ✧ EtyAC/WIN

Derivations

  • ᴹ√WIN(I)D “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN

Derivatives

  • Ilk. gwine “evening” ✧ Ety/WIN
  • ᴹQ. vinye “evening” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN
  • N. gwîn “evening” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN

Variations

  • winyā ✧ Ety/WIN (winyā)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

slinyā

adjective. lean, thin, meagre

Derivations

  • ᴹ√SLIN “*fine, delicate” ✧ Ety/SLIN

Derivatives

  • N. thlein “lean, thin, meagre” ✧ Ety/SLIN
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/SLIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

terēn(ē)

adjective. slender

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TER “pierce” ✧ Ety/TER

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. teren “slender, slender; [ᴱQ.] lissom, lithe” ✧ Ety/TER
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/TER] Group: Eldamo. Published by

andā

adjective. long

Derivations

  • ᴹ√ANAD “*long” ✧ Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/MBUD

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. anda “long” ✧ Ety/ÁNAD
  • N. ann “long” ✧ Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/MBUD

Element in

Variations

  • anda ✧ Ety/MBUD (anda)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/MBUD] Group: Eldamo. Published by

akrā

adjective. narrow

Derivations

  • ᴹ√AK “narrow, confined” ✧ Ety/AK

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. arka “narrow” ✧ Ety/AK
  • N. agor “narrow” ✧ Ety/AK
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/AK] Group: Eldamo. Published by