Middle Primitive Elvish
lir
root. sing, trill
Changes
- LIR¹ → GLIR “sing, trill” ✧ EtyAC/LIR¹
Derivatives
- ᴹ✶laire “long lay” ✧ Ety/LIR¹
- N. glaer “long lay, narrative poem” ✧ EtyAC/LIR¹
- ᴹQ. liri “finch”
- ᴹQ. laire “poem” ✧ Ety/GLIR
- ᴹQ. lir- “to sing, chant” ✧ Ety/LIR¹
- ᴹQ. liru- “to sing (gaily)”
- N. glaer “long lay, narrative poem” ✧ Ety/GLIR
- N. glir- “to sing, recite poem” ✧ Ety/GLIR; Ety/LIR¹
- N. glîr “song, poem, lay” ✧ Ety/GLIR; Ety/LIR¹
Variations
- GLIR ✧ Ety/GLIR; EtyAC/LIR¹
- g-lir ✧ Ety/LIR¹
lir
root. *row
Derivatives
glir
root. sing, trill
lin
root. sing
Changes
GLIN→ LIN² “sing” ✧ Ety/GLINGLIN→ LIN² ✧ Ety/LIN²Derivatives
- Ilk. lind “tuneful, sweet; *singing” ✧ Ety/TIN
- ᴹ✶lindā “sweet sounding” ✧ EtyAC/LIND
- ᴹ✶lindē “*singing”
- 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
Variations
- GLIN ✧ Ety/GLIN (
GLIN); Ety/LIN² (GLIN); EtyAC/GLIR
An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s server as the basis for N. lhîr “row” in N. oeglir “range of mountain peaks” (Ety/LIR²). Tolkien’s continued use of aeglir in his later writings (in Hithaeglir “Misty Mountains; Line of Misty Peaks”) indicates its ongoing validity (Let/180; RC/11).