Eldamo : Sindarin : pel-

S. #pel- v. “*to fade, wane” (Category: to Fade)

S. #pel-, v. “*to fade, wane” (Category: to Fade): ᴺS. !pel- “to fence, enclose”

A verb indicated by the month name Narbeleth “October, Sun-waning” from The Lord of the Rings appendices (LotR/1107). It was clearly derived from the root √KWEL “fade, die away, grow faint” (PE18/103), where ancient [kw] became [p] in Sindarin.

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had a similar verb G. cwel- “fade, wither” (GL/28), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√QELE “perish, die, decay, fade” (QL/76). The sound change of [kw] to [p] did not occur in Gnomish of the 1910s.

References ✧ LotR/1107

Inflections

#bel-

soft-mutation; p-mutation

“waning”

✧ LotR/1107

Element In

S. #peleth “waning” ✧ LotR/1107 (#beleth)

Cognates

Q. #quel- “to fade”

Derivations

< √KWEL¹ “fade, die away, grow faint”

G. cwel- v. “to fade, wither” (Category: to Spoil)

See S. #pel- for discussion.

References ✧ GL/28

Glosses

“fade, wither” ✧ GL/28

Variations

cwel- ✧ GL/28

Inflections

cwîli

past

✧ GL/28

Element In

G. cweleg “corpse, dead body” ✧ GL/28
G. cwelm “dusk” ✧ GL/28
G. cweloth “fading” ✧ GL/28

Cognates

ᴱQ. qele- “to perish; to fade”

Derivations

< ᴱ√QELE “perish, die, decay, fade”