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Early Primitive Elvish

gweve

root. *worm

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. wembe/G. gwem “worm” (QL/103, GL/45). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing. It might be worth retaining this root for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin (as ᴺ√WEB) to salvage some of its early derivatives; there is the much later root √LEWEK “worm” (PE17/160), but its derivatives (particularly in Quenya) seem to have more do to with snakes than insects.

Derivatives

  • Eq. wembe “worm” ✧ QL/103
  • Eq. wembil “worm” ✧ QL/103
  • G. gwef “louse”
  • G. gwem “worm”
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/103] Group: Eldamo. Published by