Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LIÞI
?ᴱ√LIÞI root. Derivatives. > G. laith¹ “time, the course of time”. ⇒ 5 compounds. > G. #laith² “*lost”. > G. laith(r)a- “to let slip, lose, mislay, forget; (intr.) to be lost”. > G. lint “quick, agile, nimble, light”. ⇒ G. Tinwelint ✧ LT1A/Tinwë Linto.003. > G. lith- “go, depart, be over, finish, end, die”. ⇒ G. lithin “bygone ...
Björn Fromén Dec 10, 2017 (17:21)
Tamas Ferencz Dec 10, 2017 (19:12)
Paul Strack Dec 10, 2017 (22:40)
The root LITH does not reappear in Tolkien's later writing, though the similar root LIT does appear as the basis for Q litse, S lith "sand, ash". We can further postulate that LITH survived only in its a-fortified form laith- to better distinguish it from the derivatives of LIT. Thus Q. laisa-, S. laitha- "to let slip, lose, mislay, forget". Perhaps in Quenya it became associated with the etymologically unrelated laista "ignorance".
Note that the early root LIÞI seems to have something to do with speed (G. lint "quick"), and might have been modified to the (rejected?) root (S)LIT appearing on PE22/127. It could therefore be distantly related to Q. linta "swift", though I can't see a way to derive linta from LITH, especially given its cognate S lim "swift".
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