Eldamo : Middle Quenya : liske

ᴹQ. liske n. “reed” (Category: Grass)

ᴹQ. liscë, n. “reed, [ᴱQ.] sedge” (Category: Grass): ᴱQ. fen “reed”

A word mentioned in the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) of the 1940s, with the gloss “reed” and derived from primitive ᴹ✶lisge (PE19/51).

Conceptual Development: The word/root ᴱQ. LISKE “sedge, reeds” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/55). In the contemporaneous Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin, [ᴱQ.] liske was given as a cognate to G. lisg “reed” (PE15/28).

Reference ✧ PE19/51 ✧ “reed”

Cognates

S. #lisg “reed”

Derivations

< ᴹ✶lisge “reed” ✧ PE19/51
- < ᴹ√LISKI “?reed”

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶lisge > liske

[lisge] > [lizge] > [liske]

✧ PE19/51

ᴱQ. liske n. “sedge, reeds” (Category: Grass)

References ✧ LT2A/Arlisgion; PE15/28; QL/55

Glosses

“reed” ✧ LT2A/Arlisgion; PE15/28
“reed, sedge” ✧ LT2A/Arlisgion
“sedge, reeds” ✧ QL/55

Element In

ᴱQ. Ardaliskea “Place of Reeds”

Cognates

G. lisg “reed, sedge” ✧ LT2A/Arlisgion; PE15/28; QL/55