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Middle Primitive Elvish

dimbā

adjective. sad, gloomy

Derivations

  • ᴹ√DEM “sad, gloomy” ✧ EtyAC/DEM

Derivatives

  • ᴺS. dem “sad, gloomy”
  • Ilk. dem “sad, gloomy” ✧ Ety/DEM
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/DEM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

dem

root. sad, gloomy

An Ilkorin-only root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “sad, gloomy” (Ety/DEM). It was first given as √DIM, which Tolkien rejected and replaced by √DEM (EtyAC/DEM), but given the Ilkorin name Dimbar in both The Etymologies and contemporaneous Silmarillion drafts (LR/261), Tolkien likely reversed himself and restored √DIM. In later iterations of The Silmarillion, it is likely that S. Dimbar became a Sindarin name.

Changes

  • DIM → DEM ✧ Ety/DEM

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶dimbā “sad, gloomy” ✧ EtyAC/DEM
    • ᴺS. dem “sad, gloomy”
    • Ilk. dem “sad, gloomy” ✧ Ety/DEM
  • ᴹ✶dimbē “gloom, sadness” ✧ EtyAC/DEM; Ety/DEM
    • ᴺS. dim “gloom, sadness”
    • Ilk. dim “gloom, sadness” ✧ Ety/DEM; EtyAC/DEM
  • ᴺQ. lemba “sad”
  • Ilk. dem “sad, gloomy” ✧ Ety/DEM

Variations

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