Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : ǶEHE

ᴱ√ǶEHE root. “breath; die, expire”

⚠️ᴱ√ǶEHE root. “breath; die, expire”: √THŪ “blow, cause an air movement, [ᴹ√] puff”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “breath; die, expire” and with the derivative ᴱQ. fé “last hour, death” (QL/41). It also has some derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. fest “breath, breathing” and G. festa- “breath[e]” (GL/35). There are no obvious signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, though the connection between “last breath” and “death” does reappear in the root √PHIR (WJ/387).

References ✧ QL/41, 100

Glosses

“breath; die, expire” ✧ QL/41

Variations

ǶEHE ✧ QL/41
‽FEHE ✧ QL/100

VEHE cp. ‽FEHE ✧ QL/100

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. fé “last hour, last breath, (act of) death” ✧ QL/41
> G. fest “breath, breathing”
- ⇒ G. festa- “to breath[e]” ✧ GL/35
- ⇒ G. ufestog “breathless” ✧ GL/35
> G. feth “one breath”