Middle Primitive Elvish
edel-
noun. Star-folk, Elf
ede(l)
root. precede, come forward, hence
edel
root. *star-folk
edēlā
noun. firstborn, eldest
eled
root. Star-Folk, Elves
ednōno
noun. firstborn
el
root. star, starry sky
eledā
noun. Star-folk, Elf
kwen(ed)
root. Elf
kwenedē
noun. Elf
A rejected root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “precede, come forward, hence” providing an etymology for the words for Elf (Ety/EDE). The rejected Noldorin form N. Edhel may have been an early attempt to revise N. Eledh “Elf”, which in Sindarin became S. Edhel < √DEL (WJ/363-4). As such, this root may have been an early iteration of √DEL “walk, go, proceed, travel”.