sele

root. *bright

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as a variant of ᴱ√SILI with a single derivative ᴱQ. selka “bright” (QL/83). Other than a mention of selka “bright” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME), there are no signs of this root having this meaning elsewhere.

tyasa

root. taste, try, choose, test, select

The root ᴱ√TYASA appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “taste, try, choose, test, select” and derivatives like ᴱQ. tyasa- “test, try, pick, choose” and ᴱQ. tyastava- “to taste (at)” (QL/49). In later writings “taste” words were derived from √KYAW or √KYAB, but I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√TYATH “test, try [out]” to salvage these early “test” words.

m(b)ṛtṛ

root. chance