#lav-

lick

#lav- (1) vb. "lick", pa.t. #lávë in undulávë, see undu (Nam); 1st person aorist lavin "I lick" in the Etymologies(LAB)

lav-

verb. lick

lav-

verb. to lick

A verb for “to lick” based on the root √LAB of similar meaning (PE17/72; PE22/151-152; RGEO/59).

Conceptual Development: This verb dates all the way back to ᴱQ. lava- “lick” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s where it was derived from the early root ᴱ√LAVA (QL/52). It retained this form in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/134), and in The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared as ᴹQ. lavin “I lick” under the root ᴹ√LAB “lick” (Ety/LAB). The verb and root continued to appear regularly in Tolkien’s later writings.

Cognates

• ᴺS. lav- “to lick”

Derivations

• √LAB “lick, move the tongue” ✧ PE22/151
• ✶lab- ✧ PE22/152; PE22/152
  • √LAB “lick, move the tongue” ✧ PE22/152

Element in

• Q. ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier “and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads” ✧ RGEO/59
• Q. undulav- “to drown, swallow, submerge, (lit.) lick down” ✧ PE17/072

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√LABA > lamne	[labne] > [lamne]	✧ PE22/151
✶labā́ > lava	[labā] > [laβā] > [laβa] > [lava]	✧ PE22/152
✶laƀuvā > lavuva	[labuvā] > [laβuvā] > [laβuva] > [lavuva]	✧ PE22/152

sulp-

lick

sulp- vb. "lick" (LT1:266; rather lav- in Tolkien's later Quenya)

lávë

noun. permission

Derivations

• ᴹ√DAB “give way, make room, permit, allow”