hesta vb. "wither" (LT1:255)
Quenya
can-
command, order
hesta
wither
Sindarin
pel
wither
pel- (i bêl, i phelir) (fade)
pel
wither
(i bêl, i phelir) (fade)
Primitive elvish
khes
root. wither
Derivatives
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Middle Primitive Elvish
khes
root. command
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “command”, with derivatives ᴹQ. hesto “captain” and a word hest of the same meaning but whose language designation is unclear, perhaps Bel[eriandic] as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/KHES).
Derivatives
Early Primitive Elvish
hese
root. wither
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “wither”, with derivatives having to do with withered things and winter (QL/40). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon the root was given as heth², but it is not clear whether this was intended to be a variant root or a replacement (GL/49). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth salvaging as a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KHES “wither” to salvage Gnomish and Early Qenya wither-words.
Derivatives
- ᴱ✶heth·thed·’lon “daisy”
- G. hetheglon “daisy” ✧ GL/49
- Eq. hesin “winter” ✧ LT1A/Heskil; QL/040
- Eq. Heskil “Winter One” ✧ LT1A/Heskil; QL/040
- Eq. hessa “dead, withered” ✧ LT1A/Heskil; QL/040
- Eq. hesta- “to wither” ✧ LT1A/Heskil; QL/040
- G. hesc “withered, dead; chilled, chill” ✧ GL/49; LT1A/Heskil
- G. Hess “winter” ✧ GL/49; LT1A/Heskil
- G. heth “white, pallid, wan” ✧ GL/49
Variations
- heth² ✧ GL/49
- HESE ✧ LT1A/Heskil; QL/040
*can*- (2) vb. "command, order" (give an order) or (with things as object) "demand" _(PM:361-362; where various derivatives of the stem KAN- are listed; the verb _can_- is not directly cited, but seems implied by the statement "in Quenya the sense command had become the usual one". The undefined verb _canya**- listed elsewhere [PE17:113] may also be taken as the actual verbal derivative that Tolkien here refers to.)