rini

root. *circle

Derivatives

• Eq. rimni “around, all around” ✧ QL/080
• Eq. rin “year, circle” ✧ QL/080
• Eq. rinko “disc, orb, circle” ✧ QL/080
• Eq. rinku “orb of Moon” ✧ QL/080
• Eq. rinqa “round, circular; revolving returning, recurrent” ✧ QL/080
• G. drinn “ring, disc”
• G. drint “twist, wrench, turn”
• G. raina- “to return”
• G. rin- “to revolve, return, come back; to do again”
• G. rinc “circular; disc, rondure”
• G. rinta- “*to return”

Element in

• Eq. kulurin “orange; piece of gold”
• Eq. werelin “whirligig” ✧ QL/103

Variations

• -lin ✧ QL/103
• rin ✧ QL/103

rili Speculative

root. *circle, ring

A hypothetical root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s like G. grail “ring, circle, circlet” and G. grileg “ringed, hooped shape” (GL/42). In later writings, √RIL meant “brilliant”.

Derivatives

• G. grail “ring, circle, circlet”