Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : ce

ᴺS. !ce adv. “may(be), might” (Category: Guess, Suppose)

ᴺS. !ce, adv. “may(be), might” [created by Elaran, Fiona Jallings, FJNS] (Category: Guess, Suppose): ᴺS. !ae “if ”; ᴺS. !cí “may, might, maybe, perhaps, if”; ᴺS. !ge “maybe, if”

See S. ce for discussion.

Derivations

< √KE/EKE “may (be); have chance, opportunity or permission; it is open”

S. ce adv. “*might, maybe” (Category: Guess, Suppose)

A neologism coined independently by Elaran and Fiona Jallings, inspired by ce “may (be)”. There are hints that Tolkien himself may have used such a word, since there is a mutate form ge that was a deleted precursor to aen that seems to be a marker of uncertainty (AotM/62).

References ✧ AotM/62

Changes

ge >> ain ✧ AotM/62

Inflections

soft-mutation; c-mutation

✧ AotM/62

Element In

S. edregol e aníra tírad i Cherdir Perhael (i sennui Panthael estathar aen) Condir i Drann “in especial he desires to see Master Samwise (who should be called Fullwise) Mayor of the Shire” ✧ AotM/62

Cognates

Q. cé¹ “may (be)”

Derivations

< √KE/EKE “may (be); have chance, opportunity or permission; it is open”