led

root. go, proceed, go, proceed, [ᴹ√] fare, travel

This root appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/LED) and in some later writings (PE17/51, 139) with the basic sense “go”. In the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60, Tolkien decided that √LED was a Quenya-only variant of the original root √DEL (WJ/360, 363). Elsewhere, Tolkien said that √LED was “not much used in Sindarin except in compounds with ✶et ‘out’ as edlen(n)” (PE17/51). Its Sindarin derivative S. lembas “way bread” was reassigned to √LEN (PE17/60). See √DEL and √LEN for further discussion.

Derivatives

• ✶etlendā “exiled” ✧ PE17/051
  • S. edlen(n) “exiled” ✧ PE17/051
• ✶ledmē “leaving, departure” ✧ PE17/051
  • Q. lenwë “leaving, departure” ✧ PE17/051
• ✶lednē ✧ PE17/051
• ✶ledya- ✧ WJ/363
  • Q. lelya- “to go, proceed (in any direction), travel”
• ᴺQ. etelenda “exiled”
• ᴺQ. etelerro “exile”
• Q. lenna- “to come, to come; [ᴹQ.] to go, depart” ✧ PE17/139
• Q. lenda- “to go free”
• ᴺQ. lendë “journey”
• S. glenna- “*to travel”
• ᴺS. lîdh “journey”

Element in

• ✶le(n)dembassē “bread taken on leaving home (for a long journey)” ✧ PE17/052
• S. lembas “waybread, journey-bread” ✧ PE17/051

Variations

• led- ✧ WJ/363