Middle Primitive Elvish
neth
root. young
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹQ. Nessaron “*Day of the Younger Gods” ✧ Ety/LEP
- N. Nethwelein “Younger Gods” ✧ Ety/LEP
nethrā
adjective. young
Derivations
- ᴹ√NETH “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
Derivatives
Variations
- neth-rā ✧ Ety/NETH
- nethra ✧ Ety/NETH
neñwi
noun. nose
Derivations
- ᴹ√NEÑ “*nose” ✧ EtyAC/NEÑ-WI
Derivatives
Variations
- NEÑ-WI ✧ Ety/NEÑ-WI
thel(es)
root. sister
Derivatives
Element in
- Q. meletheldë “love-sister”
- ᴹQ. oselle “[sworn] sister, associate [f.]” ✧ Ety/WŌ
Variations
- THEL ✧ Ety/THEL; Ety/TOR; Ety/WŌ
- THELES ✧ Ety/THEL
wen-
noun. girl
Derivations
- ᴹ√WEN(ED) “maiden” ✧ Ety/WEN
Derivatives
Element in
Tolkien gave this root in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√THEL and extended form ᴹ√THELES with the gloss “sister” and derivatives like ᴹQ. seler and N. thêl of the same meaning, both derived from the extended root as made clear by the Noldorin plural thelei < ON. thelehi (Ety/THEL). Hints of the roots continued use appear in the 1959 term Q. meletheldi “love-sisters” for close female friends (NM/20). In notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien gave Q. nésa and S. nethel as the words for “sister”, both from the root √NETH. Nevertheless, I think it is worth retaining ᴹ√THEL(ES) to represent more abstract notions of “sisterhood” for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin, for “metaphorical sister”s as opposed to Q. nésa/S. nethel for sisters by blood.