Early Primitive Elvish
iði
root. dwell‽
Derivatives
- Eq. irmin “the inhabited world” ✧ LT2A/Idril; QL/043
- Eq. Indi “Men, Earth Dwellers” ✧ LT2A/Idril; QL/043
- Eq. indo “house” ✧ LT2A/Idril; QL/043
- Eq. irin “town” ✧ LT2A/Idril; QL/043
- G. idhwin “*Man (f.)” ✧ GL/50
- G. idhweg “*Man (m.)” ✧ GL/50
- G. idhrin “men, earth dwellers” ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Idril
- G. Idhru “the world” ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Idril
- G. idhruglin “the language of Men” ✧ GL/50
- G. ind “house, abode” ✧ LT2A/Idril
- G. inna “in home, to its house/its right place”
- G. inni “home, at home, in right place”
- G. Isbaroth “Creatures of the Earth” ✧ GL/50
Element in
- ᴱ✶ai-idh “nest” ✧ GL/17
Variations
- idh ✧ GL/17
- iđ- ✧ GL/50
- IRI ✧ LT2A/Idril
- IŘI ✧ QL/043
iři
root. dwell‽
A root in the Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons given as ᴱ√IŘI (QL/43) and iđ- (GL/50), the latter more representative of its true form. In the Qenya Lexicon it was glossed “dwell”, but Tolkien marked this gloss with a “?”. It had derivatives like ᴱQ. indo/G. ind “house”, ᴱQ. irmin/G. Idhru “world”, and ᴱQ. Indi/G. idhrin “men, earth dwellers”. Based on the last of these, a probable variant is the deleted root ᴱ√(I)LÐ(I)L, also in the Qenya Lexicon with the (rejected) derivative ᴱQ. ildi “men” (QL/42).
There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, and both “men” and “world” were generally derived from other roots, the latter from √MBAR “dwell”, the likeliest replacement for this root.