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Early Primitive Elvish

teme

root. tie

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “tie” with no derivatives (QL/91), but ᴱQ. tendl “string” is derived from ᴱ√teme in The Qenya Phonology (PE12/25) and ᴱQ. Vorotemnar, name of the manacles binding Melko in the earliest Lost Tales, is probably related as pointed out by Christopher Tolkien (LT1/101, 273). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

  • Eq. tendl “string” ✧ PE12/025

Element in

Early Primitive Elvish [LT1A/Vorotemnar; PE12/025; QL/091] Group: Eldamo. Published by