Early Primitive Elvish
ŋweđe
root. *bloom, flower
Derivatives
- Eq. Meril-i-Turinqi “Queen of Flowers” ✧ PE13/099
- Eq. meril “flower” ✧ GL/45; LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi
- G. Gwetha ✧ GL/46
- G. Gwithil “flowers” ✧ GL/46; LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi
- G. gwethra- “to bloom, flourish” ✧ GL/46; LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi
Variations
- ŋgu̯eđe ✧ GL/45
- ŋwedh- ✧ GL/46
- gwedh- ✧ LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi
- mer- ✧ LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi
- ŊWERIL ✧ PE13/099
A root given in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as ŋwedh- serving as the basis for derivatives like G. gwethra- “bloom, flourish” and G. Gwithil “flowers” (GL/46). Its main Early Qenya derivative was ᴱQ. meril “flowers” as in ᴱQ. Meril-i-Turinqi “Queen of Flowers”; the primitive form of this word was given as ŊWERIL in an Early Chart of Names from this period (PE13/99). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.