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Middle Primitive Elvish

bes

root. wed

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶besnō “husband” ✧ Ety/BER; Ety/BES
    • Ilk. benn “husband” ✧ Ety/BES
    • Dan. beorn “man” ✧ Ety/BES
    • ᴹQ. venno “husband” ✧ Ety/BES
    • On. benno “man” ✧ Ety/BES
    • N. benn “man, male, †husband” ✧ Ety/BES
  • ᴹ✶bessē “wife” ✧ Ety/BES
    • ᴹQ. vesse “wife” ✧ Ety/BES
    • On. besse “wife” ✧ Ety/BES
    • N. bess “woman; †wife” ✧ Ety/BES; EtyAC/NIS
  • ᴹ✶bestā “matrimony” ✧ Ety/BES
    • ᴹQ. vesta “matrimony, matrimony, [ᴱQ.] state of marriage” ✧ Ety/BES
  • ᴹ✶besū “husband and wife, married pair” ✧ Ety/BES
    • ᴹQ. veru “husband and wife, married pair” ✧ Ety/BES
  • ᴹQ. vesta- “to wed, to wed, *marry” ✧ Ety/BES; Ety/WED
  • ᴹQ. vesta “matrimony, matrimony, [ᴱQ.] state of marriage” ✧ Ety/WED
  • N. benn “man, male, †husband” ✧ Ety/DER

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Are Veruen “Day of the Spouses, third day of the Valian week” ✧ Ety/LEP
  • ᴹQ. vestale “wedding” ✧ Ety/WED
  • N. herven “husband” ✧ Ety/KHER
  • N. herves “wife” ✧ Ety/KHER
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/BER; Ety/BES; Ety/DER; Ety/KHER; Ety/LEP; Ety/WED] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wed

root. bind

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “bind” with derivatives like ᴹQ. vére/N. gwaedh “bond, troth, compact, oath” and ᴹQ. vesta-/N. gwesta- “swear”, though Tolkien deleted Quenya derivatives of this root beginning with ves- saying they fell out of use due to conflict with ᴹ√BES “wed” (Ety/WED). This root might be a later iteration of the hypothetical early root ✱ᴱ√FEDE indicated by words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s like G. fedhin “bound by agreement; ally, friend” and G. fedhra- “unite in a band” (GL/34), but the 1910s and 1930s forms are rather dissimilar so it is hard to say.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶wedā “bond” ✧ Ety/WED
    • Ilk. gwedh “bond” ✧ Ety/WED
    • On. weda “bond” ✧ Ety/WED
    • N. gwedh “bond” ✧ Ety/WED
  • ᴹ✶wǣdē “bond, troth, compact, oath” ✧ Ety/WED
    • ᴹQ. vére “bond, troth, compact, oath” ✧ Ety/WED
    • On. waide “bond, troth, compact, oath” ✧ Ety/WED
    • N. gwaedh “bond, troth, compact, oath” ✧ Ety/WED
  • ᴹ✶wedtā “contract” ✧ Ety/WED
    • ᴹQ. vesta- “to swear (to do something), contract, make a compact” ✧ Ety/WED
    • ᴹQ. vesta “contract” ✧ Ety/WED
    • N. gwest “oath” ✧ Ety/WED
    • N. gwesta- “to swear” ✧ Ety/WED
  • ᴺQ. angwenda “chain”
  • N. gwedh- “to bind” ✧ Ety/WED
  • N. gwend “bond, friendship” ✧ Ety/WEN

Element in

  • ᴹQ. ovesta “contract, compact, treaty” ✧ Ety/WŌ
  • N. gowest “contract, compact, treaty” ✧ Ety/WŌ
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/WED; Ety/WEN; Ety/WŌ] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wedā

noun. bond

Derivations

  • ᴹ√WED “bind” ✧ Ety/WED

Derivatives

  • Ilk. gwedh “bond” ✧ Ety/WED
  • On. weda “bond” ✧ Ety/WED
    • N. gwedh “bond” ✧ Ety/WED

Element in

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rap

root. bind

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “bind” but without derivatives (EtyAC/RAP). The element S. raph (“?rope”) in S. Udalraph “Stirrupless” (“?without (U-) foot-rope”) might be related (UT/313).

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. rappa “rope”
  • S. raph “?rope, strap”

Variations

  • RAP ✧ EtyAC/RAP
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