Early Quenya
matsile
noun. bear
Cognates
- En. magli “bear, (lit.) honey-eater” ✧ PE13/149
Element in
- Eq. Oromatsile “Great Bear” ✧ PE13/149
Elements
Word Gloss mata- “to eat” ile “honey”
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!
A word appearing only as an element in the name ᴱQ. Oromatsile “Great Bear” from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/149). It was a cognate of ᴱN. magli “bear” = “honey-eater”, and hence composed of the same elements: ᴱQ. mata- “eat” and ᴱQ. ile “honey”, where the s appeared because ti became tsi in Early Qenya, so that matile > matsile.