Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : FEDE

?ᴱ√FEDE root. “*law, bond”

⚠️?ᴱ√FEDE root. “*law, bond”: ᴹ√WED “bind”; ᴹ√STAN “fix, indicate, decide”

A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fedhin “bound by agreement; ally, friend” and G. fedhwen “treaty” (GL/34). There are some Early Noldorin words from the 1920s of similar form, such as ᴱN. fedhui (PE13/142), but they are unglossed so it is unclear whether they retained the same meaning. There are no further signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> ᴱN. fedhui “[unglossed]”
- ⇒ ᴱN. difedhui “?outlaw” ✧ PE13/142
- ⇒ ᴱN. glaithfedhui “[unglossed]”
⇒ G. fedhin “bound by agreement; ally, friend”
- ⇒ 4 compounds
> G. fedhir “law; properly bond, convention, agreement”
- ⇒ G. fedhirweg “lawman, lawyer” ✧ GL/34
⇒ G. fedhra- “to unite in a band”
- ⇒ G. fedhril “one bound by oath [f.]” ✧ GL/34
- ⇒ G. fedhrog “one bound by oath” ✧ GL/34
  - ⇒ G. gofedhrog “ally” ✧ GL/34
- ⇒ G. gofedhra- “to unite in a band” ✧ GL/34
⇒ G. fedhwed “lawful”
⇒ G. fedhwen “treaty”
⇒ G. ufedhron “lawless man”