Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : DEM

ᴹ√DEM root. “sad, gloomy”

⚠️ᴹ√DEM root. “sad, gloomy”: *ᴺ√DIM “sad, gloomy”

An Ilkorin-only root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “sad, gloomy” (Ety/DEM). It was first given as √DIM, which Tolkien rejected and replaced by √DEM (EtyAC/DEM), but given the Ilkorin name Dimbar in both The Etymologies and contemporaneous Silmarillion drafts (LR/261), Tolkien likely reversed himself and restored √DIM. In later iterations of The Silmarillion, it is likely that S. Dimbar became a Sindarin name.

References ✧ Ety/DEM; EtyAC/DEM

Glosses

“sad, gloomy” ✧ Ety/DEM

Variations

DEM ✧ Ety/DEM
DIM ✧ EtyAC/DEM

Changes

DIM >> DEM “sad, gloomy” ✧ EtyAC/DEM

Derivatives

> Ilk. dem “sad, gloomy” ✧ EtyAC/DEM
- ⇒ Ilk. Dimbar “*Sad Home” ✧ Ety/DEM
- ⇒ N. Tum Dincelon “Dimrill-dale”
> ᴹ✶dimbā “sad, gloomy” ✧ Ety/DEM
- > Ilk. dem “sad, gloomy” ✧ Ety/DEM
  - ⇒ [see above]
- > ᴺS. dem “sad, gloomy”
  - ⇒ S. Dimbar “*Sad Home”
> ᴹ✶dimbē “gloom, sadness” ✧ Ety/DEM; EtyAC/DEM
- > Ilk. dim “gloom, sadness” ✧ Ety/DEM; EtyAC/DEM
- > ᴺS. dim “gloom, sadness”
> ᴺQ. !lemba “sad”