Primitive elvish
(ñ)gay
root. gape, become wide, open, vast
Derivatives
- Q. naira “vast, wide, empty” ✧ PE17/027
Elements
Word Gloss GAY(AR) “awe, dread; astound, make aghast; sea” Variations
- GAY ✧ PE17/027; PE17/153
- ÑGAY ✧ PE17/027; PE17/153; PE17/169
nēthā
adjective. gay, lively, girlish
Derivations
- √NETH “(young) woman, female person; sister; fresh, lively, merry, (young) woman, female person; sister; fresh, lively, merry; [ᴹ√] young” ✧ VT47/32
Derivatives
- T. nétha “gay, lively, girlish” ✧ VT47/32
Variations
- nēthā ✧ VT47/32
karani
adjective. red
Derivatives
Element in
- ✶Karani-stīrē ✧ VT41/10
Variations
- karanĭ ✧ PE21/81
- karnĭ ✧ PE21/81
- carani- ✧ VT41/10
A root appearing in notes on words and phrases from The Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s, serving as an explanation for √GAY(AR) “sea” (PE17/27). Its gloss was “gape, become wide, open, vast”, but elsewhere “sea” words were generally attached to roots meaning “awe, dread”, so I think this was likely a transient idea. See the entry on √GAY(AR) for further discussion.