ᴱQ. #ele- v. “to drive; to come” (Category: to Drive)
A verb appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as elin “I drive” with past tense éle “drove” under the early root ᴱ√ELE¹ “drive, push, thrust, send forth” (QL/35). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s this became elta- “drive” with past tense elle (PE16/133), also appearing in some sample sentence such as ᴱQ. unlunke naiqe yu vaile·na ar elle ha men ambostuva “*he pulled his sword from the sheath and drove it into the breast” (PE16/146) and ᴱQ. anwe or aiqale elta súrut lunte aiwendon lossiattea “*went on the heights driven by the wind a ship like a bird with a blossom-white neck” (PE16/147). Finally, it was used in the sense “came” in the ᴱQ. Nieninqe poem of around 1930s in the phrases ᴱQ. elle tande Nielikkilis “thither came little Niéle” and ᴱQ. i oromandin eller tande “the wood-spirits came thither” (MC/215).
References ✧ MC/215; PE16/90, 92, 133, 146-147; QL/35
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| Elle | past | “came” | ✧ PE16/90; PE16/92 |
| elle | past | “came” | ✧ MC/215; PE16/90; PE16/92 |
| elle | past | ✧ PE16/133; PE16/146 | |
| éle | past | “drove” | ✧ QL/35 |
| eller | past plural | “came” | ✧ MC/215 |
| elin | present 1st-sg | “I drive” | ✧ QL/35 |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√ELE > elin | [el-] | ✧ QL/35 |