S. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)
The word celeb was the word for “silver” in Sindarin and its conceptual precursors throughout Tolkien’s life.
Conceptual Development: G. celeb “silver” appeared all the way back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where it was related to the early root ᴱ√TELEPE of the same meaning (GL/25; QL/91). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s ᴱN. celeb was derived instead from ᴱ✶kelekwé with the sound change of primitive kw to p and later to b (PE13/140), though in that same document he considered (but rejected) ᴱ✶t’lépe > ᴱN. tlub “silver” (PE13/154). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien introduced a new root ᴹ√KYELEP “silver” to be the basis of N. celeb, with the sound change whereby intial ky became k (c) (Ety/KYELEP). This sound change continued to be a feature of Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s, and Tolkien retained this derivation going forward.
References ✧ Let/423, 426; LotR/1113; NM/349; PE17/36, 42, 49; RC/775; SA/celeb; TI/174; UT/266
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| ✶kyelepē > celeb | [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] | ✧ Let/426 |
| ✶kyelep- > celeb | [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] | ✧ NM/349 |
| ✶kelep/kyelep > celeb | [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] | ✧ PE17/36 |
| √kyelep- > celeb | [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] | ✧ UT/266 |
N. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)
References ✧ Ety/KYELEP
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| ON. kelepe > celeb | [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] | ✧ Ety/KYELEP |
ᴱN. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)
References ✧ PE13/140, 156
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| #geleb | soft-mutation; c-mutation | “silver” | ✧ PE13/156 |
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G. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)
References ✧ GG/12; GL/25; LT1A/Ilsaluntë, Telimpë
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| †celbi | dative | ✧ GG/12 |
| celeb | dative | ✧ GG/12 |
| no·geleb | dative | ✧ GG/12 |
| a·gelebir | dative plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| †celbir | dative plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| celebir | dative plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| a·geleb | genitive | ✧ GG/12 |
| †celba | genitive | ✧ GG/12 |
| celeb | genitive | ✧ GG/12 |
| a·gelebin | genitive plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| a·gelebion | genitive plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| †celbion | genitive plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| celebion | genitive plural | ✧ GG/12 |
| celebin | plural | ✧ GG/12 |
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