A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “sick” with derivatives ᴹQ. engwa/N. gem “sickly” (Ety/GENG-WĀ). It was given as ᴹ√GENG-WĀ, and thus represented an extension of an otherwise unattested root ᴹ√GENG. In the entry for ᴹ√YEN from The Etymologies it appeared as ᴹ√GEM in the discussion of N. ingem “old, (lit.) year-sick” (EtyAC/YEN), but I believe this represents the Noldorin phonetic developments of the true primitive form rather than a conceptual variation. The continued appearance of Q. Engwar in The Silmarillion narratives of the 1950s and 60s hints that this root may have remained valid as well.
Middle Primitive Elvish
wan
root. depart, go away, disappear, vanish
Changes
- WAN → VAN “depart, go away, disappear, vanish” ✧ Ety/WAN
Derivatives
- ᴹ✶wannā “departed, dead” ✧ Ety/WAN
- N. gwann “departed, dead, dead, (lit.) departed” ✧ Ety/WAN
- ᴹ✶wanta- “to depart, die” ✧ Ety/WAN
- N. gwanna- “to depart, die, to die, depart” ✧ Ety/WAN
- ᴹ✶wanwē “death” ✧ Ety/WAN
- N. gwanw “death (act of dying)” ✧ Ety/WAN
- ᴹQ. vanwa “gone (for good), departed, vanished, lost, past, over, dead” ✧ Ety/WAN
- ᴹQ. vanya- “to go, depart, disappear” ✧ Ety/WAN
- N. gwanath “death (act of dying)” ✧ Ety/WAN
- ᴺS. gwenwi “past, past tense”
Variations
- VAN ✧ Ety/WAN
wān
noun. goose
Derivations
- ᴹ√WĀ “blow”
Derivatives
Variations
- WĀ-N ✧ Ety/WA-N
- WA-N ✧ EtyAC/WA-N
span
root. white
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹ✶Olosphantur “Lórien” ✧ Ety/ÓLOS
- ᴹ✶Spanturo “lord of cloud” ✧ Ety/SPAN
- ᴹQ. Are Fanturion “Day of the Fanturi, fourth day of the Valian week” ✧ Ety/LEP
- ᴹQ. Nurufantur “Lord of Death-cloud” ✧ Ety/ÑGUR
- ᴹQ. Olofantur “Lord of Dream-cloud” ✧ Ety/ÓLOS
- N. Fannor “Cloud-lord” ✧ Ety/TĀ
- N. Gurfannor “Lord of Death-cloud” ✧ Ety/ÑGUR
gengwa
root. sick
Derivatives
Element in
- N. ingem “old (in mortal sense), suffering from old age, decrepit, (lit.) year-sick” ✧ Ety/YA; Ety/YEN
Variations
- GENG-WĀ ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ; Ety/YA; EtyAC/GENG-WĀ; EtyAC/YEN
- GEM ✧ Ety/YEN
smalwā
adjective. fallow, pale
Derivations
- ᴹ√SMAL “yellow” ✧ Ety/SMAL
Derivatives
smalinā
adjective. yellow
Derivations
- ᴹ√SMAL “yellow” ✧ Ety/SMAL
Derivatives
thindi
adjective. pallid, grey, wan
Derivations
- ᴹ√THIN “*grey” ✧ Ety/THIN
Derivatives
smal
root. yellow
Derivatives
- ᴹ✶asmalē “yellow bird, ‘yellow hammer’” ✧ Ety/SMAL
- ᴹ✶asmalindē “yellow bird, ‘yellow hammer’” ✧ Ety/SMAL
- ᴹ✶smaldā “gold (as metal)” ✧ Ety/LÁWAR; Ety/SMAL
- ᴹ✶smalinā “yellow” ✧ Ety/SMAL
- ᴹ✶smalu “pollen, yellow powder” ✧ Ety/SMAL
- ᴹ✶smalwā “fallow, pale” ✧ Ety/SMAL
- ᴹQ. malo “rust”
- N. mallen “of gold” ✧ Ety/SMAL
Variations
- MAL ✧ EtyAC/MAL (
MAL)
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “depart, go away, disappear, vanish” with derivatives like ᴹQ. vanwa “gone, departed, vanished, lost, past” and N. gwann “departed, dead” (Ety/WAN). It was revised in pencil to ᴹ√VAN. The 1930s root is probably a later iteration of unglossed ᴱ√VAHA in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s which was an elaboration of ᴱ√AVA “go away, depart, leave”, and had derivatives like ᴱQ. vand- “way, path”, ᴱQ. vandl “staff”, and ᴱQ. vanwa “gone, on the road, past, over, lost” (QL/99). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. bâ “away, off”, G. bad- “travel”, and G. bang “staff” (GL/21).
In later writings, Q. vanwa was derived from the invertible root √WĀ/AWA; in the 1930s there is no indication that ᴹ√AWA “away” was invertible, so perhaps inversion √WĀ (WJ/366) can be considered the conceptual descendant of ᴹ√WAN and ᴱ√VAHA. For a time in the 1940s and 1950s, Q. vanwa was derived instead from √BA(N) “go, proceed” (PE22/97; PE17/16), but this root was abandoned in 1959. Thus, perhaps the full evolution was 1910s ᴱ√VAHA >> 1930s ᴹ√WAN >> ᴹ√VAN >> 1940s-50s √BA(N) >> 1960s √WĀ.