Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LESE

ᴱ√LESE root. “collect”

⚠️ᴱ√LESE root. “collect”: √KHOT¹ “gather, together in confusion, jumble”; √KOM “gather, collect”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “collect” with derivatives like ᴱQ. lese- “come together, gather” and ᴱQ. lesta “gathering, assembly” (QL/53). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. lest “gathering, assembly, concourse, moot” and G. lesta- “gather, assemble, meet” (GL/53). There are no clear indications of this root in Tolkien’s later writings, where Tolkien seems to have shifted to ᴹ√KHOTH “gather”, but it is possible that ᴹQ. lesta “measure” from Fíriel’s Song of the 1930s is connected to this early root.

Reference ✧ QL/53 ✧ “collect”

ᴹQ. #lesta “measure” may be derived from LESE “collect”

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶gwa·lē·st·a
- > G. glest “moot, gathering, concourse, assembly” ✧ GL/39
  - ⇒ G. glesta- “to gather” ✧ GL/39
> ᴱQ. lese- “to come together, gather (intr.)” ✧ QL/53
> ᴱQ. lesta “gathering, assembly” ✧ QL/53
- ⇒ ᴱQ. lielesta “folk moot” ✧ QL/53
- ⇒ ᴱQ. soleste “collection” ✧ QL/85
> ᴱQ. lesta- “to collect (tr.)” ✧ QL/53
> G. lest “gathering, assembly, concourse, moot”
- ⇒ G. gwalest “concourse, moot, folkmote” ✧ GL/44
> G. lesta- “to gather, assemble, meet (intr.)”
- ⇒ G. golesta- “to gather (intr.)” ✧ GL/44