Qenya
ser-
verb. to rest, repose; to stay, tarry, stop, be for a while, at the moment
este
feminine name. rest
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A verb in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as serin “I rest” under the root ᴹ√SED of the same meaning (Ety/SED). It appeared as sére “resteth” in the contemporaneous Fíriel’s Song (LR/72). In the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) of 1948 Tolkien said that ᴹQ. ser- properly meant “to rest, repose”, but it was frequently used to mean “stay, tarry, stop, be for a while, at the moment” (PE22/125). The example he gave was ᴹQ. sinan Elessar Aran séra Arkimbelesse “at present King Elessar is [staying for a while] at Rivendell”.