srith

root. snow

aba-kar ā

don’t do it

issa

pronoun. it (emphatic)

kenásĭta

adverb. if it be so, may be, perhaps

lasa

adverb. not it = it is/was not so

eke

root. it is open

kheru

verb. lord it over, be master of, own

lāni/lanjē karnē-sa

I did not do it

¤kurwē

noun. power, ability

sris

root. snow

An apparently verbal root as √SRIS “snow” appearing in etymological notes from around 1959 with derivatives like Q. hrisse “fall of snow” and Q. hríza “it is snowing”; it replaced a deleted root √SRITH “snow” (PE17/168).

ringi

root. cold

Tolkien used very similar forms for Elvish words for “cold” for all of his life. The earliest iteration of this root was unglossed ᴱ√RIŊI in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. rin (ring-) “dew” and ᴱQ. ringa “damp, cold, chilly” (QL/80). The root had similar derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. rî “coolness, cool” and G. ring “cool, cold” (GL/65). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien gave the root {ᴹ√RINGĀ >>} ᴹ√RINGI “cold” with derivatives like ᴹQ. ringe/N. rhing “cold” (Ety/RINGI; EtyAC/RINGI). Primitive forms ✶riñgi “chill” and ✶riñgā appeared in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s (PE21/80), and Christopher Tolkien mentioned √ring as the basis for cold words in the Silmarillion Appendix (SA/ring).

lā-

verb. to not be

eñ-

verb. to exist

imin

masculine name. One

lossē

noun. snow

manā

adjective. what

mat-

verb. to eat

min

cardinal. one

ndab

root. to judge

ortā-

verb. to raise

ros-

verb. to rain

san-

pronoun. that

tul-

verb. come, is coming, has come, is here, I come, have come

us(u)kwē

noun. dusk

karandi

noun. making

rossētā-

verb. to rain