Eldamo : Early Quenya : umbe

ᴱQ. umbe n. “dale, dell” (Category: Dale, Valley)

⚠️ᴱQ. umbë, n. “dale, dell” (Category: Dale, Valley): Q. imbë² “deep valley, (wide) ravine, [ᴹQ.] glen, dell, (lit.) tween-land”; Q. umbë “imminence, threat; premonition, fear, unwelcome expectation”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “dale, dell” derived from the root ᴱ√Ū¹ “under” (QL/96). It may have reemerged later as ᴹQ. imbe “dell, deep vale” (EtyAC/IMBE).

References ✧ PE14/107; QL/96

Glosses

“dale, dell” ✧ QL/96

Cognates

G. umbel “a dell”

Derivations

< ᴱ√Ū¹ “under” ✧ QL/96

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√Ū¹ > umbe

[umbē] > [umbe]

✧ QL/96