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

lin

root. pool

Derivatives

  • Ilk. line “pool” ✧ Ety/LIN¹
  • ᴹ√LINKWI “*wet” ✧ Ety/LIN¹
    • ᴹQ. linqe “wet, wet, [ᴱQ.] flowing; water, stream” ✧ Ety/LINKWI
    • N. lhimmid(a)- “to moisten” ✧ Ety/LINKWI
    • N. lhimp “wet” ✧ Ety/LINKWI
  • ᴹQ. linya “pool” ✧ Ety/LIN¹
  • N. lhîn “pool” ✧ Ety/KHIS; Ety/LIN¹

Element in

  • ᴹ✶ailin “pool, lake” ✧ Ety/AY
  • ᴹQ. ailin “pool, lake” ✧ Ety/LIN¹
  • N. Oelinuial “Pools of Twilight” ✧ Ety/KHIS
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/AY; Ety/KHIS; Ety/LIN¹] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lin

root. sing

Changes

  • GLIN → LIN² “sing” ✧ Ety/GLIN
  • GLIN → LIN² ✧ Ety/LIN²

Derivatives

  • Ilk. lind “tuneful, sweet; *singing” ✧ Ety/TIN
  • ᴹ✶lindā “sweet sounding” ✧ EtyAC/LIND
    • Ilk. lind “tuneful, sweet; *singing” ✧ Ety/LIND
    • ᴹQ. linda “fair, beautiful (of sound)” ✧ Ety/LIND
    • N. lhend “tuneful, sweet” ✧ Ety/LIND
  • ᴹ✶lindē “*singing”
    • ᴹQ. linde “air, tune”
    • N. lhinn “air, tune”
  • ᴹ✶lindō “singer” ✧ Ety/TUY
    • ᴹQ. lindo “singer, singing bird”
  • ᴹQ. lindale “music” ✧ Ety/LIN²
  • ᴹQ. linde “air, tune” ✧ Ety/GLIN; Ety/LIN²; Ety/TIN
  • ᴹQ. lindo “singer, singing bird” ✧ Ety/LIN²
  • ᴹQ. linwe “short lay”
  • ᴹQ. lin- “to sing” ✧ Ety/GLIN
  • N. glin- “to sing” ✧ Ety/GLIN
  • N. glinn “song, poem, lay” ✧ Ety/GLIN
  • N. lhinn “air, tune” ✧ Ety/LIN²; Ety/TIN

Element in

  • ᴹ✶Lindān-d “musical land” ✧ Ety/LIN²
  • ᴹQ. Laurelin “Song of Gold” ✧ Ety/GLIN (Laurelin); Ety/LIN²
  • N. tuilinn “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer” ✧ Ety/LIN²

Variations

  • GLIN ✧ Ety/GLIN (GLIN); Ety/LIN² (GLIN); EtyAC/GLIR
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/GLIN; Ety/LIN²; Ety/TIN; Ety/TUY; EtyAC/GLIR; EtyAC/LIND] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wis

root. air

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. vista “air as substance” ✧ Ety/WIS
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/WIS; EtyAC/SWES] Group: Eldamo. Published by

angwa

root. snake

The root √ANGWA “snake” with variant √ANGU appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as the basis for the words ᴹQ. ango “snake” (Ety/ANGWA) and angulóke “dragon” (Ety/LOK). The Noldorin equivalent am- seems to have survived only as a prefix (Ety/ANGWA), and is a good example of how [[on|[ŋgw] > [mb]]] in that language. There are a variety of other words for “snake” in Tolkien’s later writings, so whether this root remained valid is unclear.

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. ango “snake, dragon” ✧ Ety/ANGWA
  • N. am- “snake” ✧ Ety/ANGWA

Element in

Variations

  • ANGU ✧ Ety/ANGWA
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ANGWA; Ety/LOK] Group: Eldamo. Published by