mad-

verb. to eat

The Sindarin verb for “to eat” derived from the root √MAT of the same meaning (PE17/131; Ety/MAT). In Tolkien’s later writing it appears only in inflected forms, but the verb itself is well established, dating back all the way to G. mad- in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/56). This verb was one Tolkien often used in examples of verb conjugations and as such its inflected forms changed considerably over time, but that is more a topic of the evolution of the Sindarin verb system.

mad

eat

mad- (i vâd, i medir). HONEY-EATER, see BEAR

mad

eat

(i vâd, i medir).

hwiniol

mad

(see VT46:16 for this gloss) hwiniol (fantastic, giddy; literally this is the participle ”whirling”), lenited chwiniol. It is unclear whether Sindarin participles have any distinct plural forms.

hwiniol

mad

(fantastic, giddy; literally this is the participle ”whirling”), lenited chwiniol. It is unclear whether Sindarin participles have any distinct plural forms.

whiniol

adjective. whirling, giddy, mad, fantastic