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Middle Primitive Elvish

dil

root. stop up, fill up hole

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “stop up, fill up hole”, with various Noldorin derivatives of similar meaning (Ety/DIL).

Derivatives

  • N. dîl “stopper, stopping, stuffing” ✧ Ety/DIL
  • N. dilia- “to stop (up)” ✧ Ety/DIL

Element in

  • N. gasdil “stopgap” ✧ Ety/GAS
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/DIL; Ety/GAS] Group: Eldamo. Published by

n(d)il

root. friend; love, devotion

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. -(n)dil “-friend” ✧ Ety/NIL
  • ᴹQ. nilda “friendly, loving (towards)” ✧ Ety/NIL
  • ᴹQ. nilde “friend (f.)” ✧ Ety/NIL
  • ᴹQ. nildo “friend [m.]” ✧ Ety/NIL
  • ᴹQ. nilme “friendship” ✧ Ety/NIL
  • ᴹQ. nilmo “friend” ✧ Ety/NIL

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Earendil “Friend of the Sea” ✧ SD/241; SD/305

Variations

  • NIL/NDIL ✧ Ety/NIL
  • DIL ✧ EtyAC/NIL
  • ndil ✧ SD/241; SD/305
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NIL; EtyAC/NIL; SD/241; SD/305] Group: Eldamo. Published by

yel

root. friend

A new gloss for the root ᴹ√YEL “daughter”, with a new set of derivatives like ᴹQ. -iel “-friend” and ᴹQ. yelda “friendly” (Ety/YEL), but it was rejected in turn and probably replaced by ᴹ√MEL.

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. -iel “-friend” ✧ Ety/YEL
  • ᴹQ. yelda “friendly, dear as friend” ✧ Ety/YEL
  • ᴹQ. yelme “[unglossed]” ✧ Ety/YEL

Variations

  • YEL ✧ Ety/YEL (YEL)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/YEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mālō

noun. friend

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MEL “love (as friend)” ✧ Ety/MEL

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. málo “friend” ✧ Ety/MEL
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/MEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by