megli
noun. bear
megli
noun. bear, (lit.) honey-eater
Changes
magli→ megli “bear” ✧ Ety/LISDerivations
- ᴹ✶madlī “honey-eater” ✧ Ety/LIS
Element in
- N. i vegli vorn “the black bear” ✧ PE22/033
- N. meglin “*bear-like” ✧ Ety/LIS
- N. meglivorn “blackbear” ✧ Ety/LIS; EtyAC/LIS (
magli) (mormagli); EtyAC/MAT (Mormagli); EtyAC/MAT (Meglivorn)Elements
Word Gloss mad- “to eat” glî “honey” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mad-lī > megli [madlī] > [madli] > [medli] > [megli] ✧ Ety/LIS Variations
- magli ✧ EtyAC/LIS (
magli); EtyAC/MAT (magli)
brôg
noun. bear
brôg
noun. bear
A noun for “bear” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶morókō under the root ᴹ√MOROK (Ety/MORÓK), where the initial syllable reduced to m’rokō and then the initial mr became br.
Conceptual Development: A likely precursor to this word is ᴱN. gorch “bear” (also “fierce fighter”) from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/145, 149).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. morko “bear” ✧ Ety/MORÓK
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶morókō > brôg [morókō] > [mrokō] > [brokō] > [broko] > [brok] > [brog] > [brōg] ✧ Ety/MORÓK Variations
- brog ✧ EtyAC/LIS
A noun appearing as N. {magli >>} megli “bear” in The Etymologies, a combination of N. mad- “eat” and N. glî “honey”, hence more literally “honey-eater” (Ety/LIS, MAT; EtyAC/LIS, MAT), where dl > gl as was usual in Noldorin. This word also appeared in the phrase i vegli vorn “the black bear” in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s (PE22/33).
Conceptual Development: ᴱN. magli “a bear, honey-eater” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s.
Neo-Sindarin: The sound change dl > gl was not a feature of Sindarin, so most Neo-Sindarin writers adapt this word as ᴺS. medli “bear”, as suggested in HSD (HSD).