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Middle Primitive Elvish

pilin

root. *arrow

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the derivatives ᴹQ. pilin “arrow”; in The Etymologies as recorded by Christopher Tolkien the root was given as ᴹ√PÍLIM (Ety/PÍLIM), but according to Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne the root might also be read as ᴹ√PÍLIN (EtyAC/PÍLIM). This root is probably a later iteration of the early root ᴱ√PILI from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, unglossed and with derivatives like ᴱQ. pilin “feather” and ᴱQ. pilna “arrow” (QL/74); it also had derivatives like G. pilon “arrow, dart” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/64). Later “feather” words were based on the root ᴹ√KWES (Ety/KWES; LotR/1122), but ᴹQ. pilin remains the best known Elvish word for “arrow”.

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. pilen “feather”
  • ᴹQ. pilin “arrow, arrow; [ᴱQ.] feather” ✧ Ety/PÍLIM
  • ᴺS. pilin(d) “arrow, [G.] dart”
  • ᴺS. plinn “arrow”

Variations

  • PÍLIN ✧ Ety/PÍLIM
  • PÍLIM ✧ EtyAC/PÍLIM
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/PÍLIM; EtyAC/PÍLIM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kwessē

noun. feather

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KWES “*feather” ✧ Ety/KWES

Derivatives

  • Ilk. cwess “down (feathers)” ✧ Ety/KWES
  • ᴹQ. qesse “feather” ✧ Ety/KWES
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KWES] Group: Eldamo. Published by