Eldamo : Sindarin : fair

S. fair adj. “quick, ready, prompt” (Category: Ready)

S. fair, adj. “quick, ready, prompt” (Category: Ready): G. guin¹ “recent, fresh”

A word for “quick, ready, prompt” in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 based on primitive ✶pheryā and the root √PHERE (PE17/181). It had a prefixal variant fer-, presumably based directly on the root.

References ✧ PE17/181

Glosses

“quick, ready, prompt” ✧ PE17/181

Variations

fair ✧ PE17/181

Inflections

fer-

prefix

✧ PE17/181

Element In

S. fergar “soon done” ✧ PE17/181
S. fergenol “quick to see or perceive, sharp-sighted or witted” ✧ PE17/181

Cognates

ᴺQ. !ferya “quick, ready, prompt”

Derivations

< ✶pheryā “quick, ready, prompt” ✧ PE17/181
- < feir < pheryā ✧ PE17/181
- < √PHER “*ready, prompt” ✧ PE17/181 (PHERE)

Phonetic Developments

✶pheryā > feir > fair

[pʰerjā] > [pʰerja] > [ɸerja] > [ferja] > [feria] > [feri] > [feir] > [fair]

✧ PE17/181