10.57 to Enter Q. mitta- v. “to insert; [ᴹQ.] to come in, [ᴱQ.] enter (intr.)” A verb glossed “insert” in notes from the 1950s derived from the root √MI “in” (VT43/30). ᴹQ. mitta- was also glossed “insert” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/110), but in some sentences
Select Elvish Words 10.55-10.56: to Reach, Arrive; to Approach
10.55 to Reach, Arrive Q. anya- v. “to reach, arrive at, go to; *to manage, succeed (at something) + infinitive” A verb for “reach, arrive at, go to” in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, derived from the root √ANA “to(wards)” (PE22/157, 163). Conceptual Development: An earlier verb
Select Elvish Words 10.53-10.54: to Pursue; to Overtake
10.53 to Pursue ᴹQ. alfárima v. “impossible to pursue” A word for “impossible to pursue” from the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) of 1948 (PE22/111), which is the verb fara- “hunt” combined with the suffix of possibility -ima (> “*huntable”) and the negative prefix al(a)- (> “*unhuntable”). ᴹQ. roita- v. “to
Select Elvish Words 10.51-10.52: to Flee; to Follow
10.51 to Flee S. drega- v. “to flee” A verb appearing only in its imperative form: drego “flee” (UT/65). Vyacheslav Stepanov suggested it might be based on the root √REK “recover, get out/away, save from ruin/peril/loss” (PE17/38). 10.52 to Follow ᴹQ. hilya- v. “to follow” A verb in The Etymologies
Select Elvish Words 10.50: to Fade
10.50 to Fade Q. fifíru- v. “to slowly fade away” A verb translated “slowly fade away” in notes associated with the Markirya “poem” of the 1960s, a frequentative form of fir- “die, fade” (MC/223). In the poem itself it appeared in its active participle form fifírula “fading” (MC/222). Conceptual Development:
Select Elvish Words 10.49: to Depart, Go Away
10.49 to Depart, Go Away Q. auta-¹ v. “to go (away), depart, leave; [variant: vanya-] to pass away, disappear, be lost” A rather irregular verb whose base meaning is “go (away), depart, leave” and by extension with the senses “pass away, disappear, be lost”, derived from the invertible root √WĀ/AWA
Select Elvish Words 10.48: to Come
10.48 to Come ᴹQ. ettul- v. “*to come forth, come out, issue” An untranslated verb appearing in its plural form ettuler in the phrase Soroni númenheruen ettuler from the 1940s (SD/290). It is clearly a combination of et- “forth, out” with tul- “come”, so meaning something like “*come forth, come
Select Elvish Words 10.47: to Go (Sindarin)
10.47 to Go N. bad- v. “*to tread, ⚠️[G.] travel” The earliest appearance of this verb was G. bad- “travel” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/21), probably based on the early root ᴱ√VAHA (QL/99). N. bad- appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as an element in the
Select Elvish Words 10.47: to Go (Quenya)
10.47 to Go Q. lelya- v. “to travel, go, proceed (in any direction)” A verb appearing in the Quendi and Eldar essay (Q&E) from 1959-60, glossed “go, proceed (in any direction), travel” and with a strong past form lende, derived from primitive ✶ledja- based on the root √LED (WJ/363). Conceptual
Select Elvish Words 10.46: to Run
10.46 to Run ᴱQ. lopo- v. “to run (of animals), gallop, *lope” The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a verb ᴱQ. lopo- “gallop, run (of animals)” under the early root ᴱ√LOPO, contrasted with ᴱQ. loqo- “run (of human beings)” (QL/56). Neo-Sindarin: Derivatives of √LOP continued to appear in Tolkien’s