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Middle Primitive Elvish

rik(h)

root. jerk, sudden move, flirt

Changes

  • RIK → RIK(H) ✧ Ety/RIK(H)

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶rinki “flourish, quick stroke” ✧ Ety/RIK(H)
    • ᴹQ. rinke “flourish, quick stroke, hook” ✧ Ety/RIK(H)
    • N. rhinc “twitch, jerk, trick, sudden move” ✧ Ety/RIK(H)
  • ᴹQ. rihta- “to jerk, give quick twist or move, twitch, to jerk, give quick twist or move, twitch, *wrench” ✧ Ety/RIK(H)
  • ᴹQ. rinka “twitch, jerk, trick, sudden move, twitch, jerk, sudden move, trick” ✧ Ety/RIK(H)
  • N. rhitha- “to jerk, twitch, snatch” ✧ Ety/RIK(H)

Variations

  • RIKH ✧ EtyAC/REP
  • RIK ✧ EtyAC/RIK(H) (RIK)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/RIK(H); EtyAC/REP; EtyAC/RIK(H)] Group: Eldamo. Published by

snur

root. twist

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “twist” with derivatives N. norð “cord” and N. norn ““twisted, knotted, crabbed, contorted” (Ety/SNUR).

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. nurda “cord, rope”
  • N. nordh “cord” ✧ Ety/SNUR
  • N. norn “twisted, knotted, crabbed, contorted” ✧ Ety/SNUR
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/SNUR] Group: Eldamo. Published by