melmë

love

melmë noun "love" (MEL)

melmë

 noun. love, love (a particular case [between two people])

Derivations

• √MEL “love, love, [ᴹ√] love (as friend)” ✧ NM/016

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√mel > melmë	[melme]	✧ NM/016

meles

love

meles, melessë noun "love" (LT1:262; rather melmë in Tolkien's later Quenya)

-më

suffix. abstract noun

-më (2) abstract suffix, as in melmë "love" (cf. the verb mel-), #cilmë "choice" (possibly implying a verb *cil- "to choose"). According to PE17:68, primitive -mē (and -wē) were endings used to derive nouns denoting "a single action", which may fit the meaning of cilmë (but melmë "love" would normally be something lasting rather than "a single action").