Eldamo : Neo-Primitive Elvish : ELEK

^ᴺ√ELEK root. “different, strange; other”

⚠️^ᴺ√ELEK root. “different, strange; other”: √HEK “aside, apart, separate”

See ?ᴱ√ELE² for discussion.

^ELEK “different, strange; other” may have developed the sense “other” in Sindarin due to the erasure of √KHY- “other”

Elements

√EL	“lo, behold; star”

Derivatives

> ᴺS. ^elch “else, something else”
> ᴺS. eleg “other, else”
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^elegren “different, strange”

?ᴱ√ELE² root. “?wonder”

A hypothetical early root serving as the basis for Gnomish words having to do with “otherness”, such as G. eleg “other”, G. elfel “different, like something else” and possibly also eltha- “to alter, change”, though the last word seems to have been part of a separate etymological paradigm (GL/32). This collection of words also included G. elm “wonder” and elma- “marvel at, admire”. Similar forms appeared in the 1920s: ᴱN. elvennai “wonderful, marvelous” and ᴱN. elven “wonder, wonderment”, the latter with a Qenya cognate ᴱQ. elmenda (PE13/143, 161).

Some of this sense of wonderment may have resurfaced in the root √EL in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60, where Tolkien said of ELE that “according to Elvish legend this was a primitive exclamation, ‘lo! behold!’ made by the Elves when they first saw the stars” (WJ/360). On this basis, I think it worth concocting an extended Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√ELEM “wonder, marvel” to salvage the “wonder” words from the 1920s. It might also be worthwhile to concoct an extended root ᴺ√ELEK “different, strange; other” to salvage Gnomish “other” words from the 1910s, but that one is more of a stretch and I no longer recommend its use. Neologisms based on later roots serve better for that purpose.

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶elmendā
- > ᴱN. elven “wonder, wonderment” ✧ PE13/143
  - ⇒ ᴱN. elvain(n) “wondrous, marvelous, wonderful; wonder(ful thing), marvel” ✧ PE13/143; PE13/161
  - ⇒ ᴱN. elvennai “wonderful, marvelous” ✧ PE13/161
- > ᴱQ. elmenda “wonder, wonderment” ✧ PE13/143
- > G. elm(en) “wonder; singular, marvelous or unique thing; something strange” ✧ PE13/116
> ᴱ✶elmendiya
- > ᴱN. elvennai “wonderful, marvelous” ✧ PE13/143; PE13/161
> ᴱ✶elménd(i)ya
- > ᴱN. elvain(n) “wondrous, marvelous, wonderful; wonder(ful thing), marvel” ✧ PE13/143
> G. el “or”
- ⇒ G. eleg “other, else” ✧ GL/32
  - ⇒ [see above]
- ⇒ G. elfel “different, like something else” ✧ GL/32
> G. elc “else, something else”
> G. eleg “other, else”
- ⇒ G. elegrin “different, strange” ✧ GL/32
> G. elfel “different, like something else”
> G. elma- “to marvel at, admire”
> G. elt¹ “change”
⇒ G. eltha “or, otherwise”
⇒ G. eltha- “to alter, change”
> G. el(u)m “think of that!”