Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LIKINI

?ᴱ√LIKINI root. “*curved horn”

⚠️?ᴱ√LIKINI root. “*curved horn”: √ROM “horn noise; [ᴹ√] loud noise”

A hypothetical triconsonantal root underlying words like ᴱQ. likin “horn, curled horn” and G. ligin “curved horn, trump” in the Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons of the 1910s (QL/54; GL/54). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. likin “horn, curled horn”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. likinda “trumpet” ✧ QL/54
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. likinda- “to blow a trumpet” ✧ QL/54
- ⇒ ᴱQ. likinne “blowing of horns” ✧ QL/54
> G. ligin “curved horn, trump”
- ⇒ G. ligindon “blare of trumps” ✧ GL/54