Eldamo : Sindarin : men-

S. #men- v. “to go” (Category: to Go)

S. #men-, v. “to go” (Category: to Go): S. †ban- “?to go”; G. haitha- “to hie, go, fare, walk”

The basic Sindarin verb for “go”, derived from the root √MEN (PE17/143). Its archaic past form emēnē was discussed in notes from around 1965 (PE17/93); its modern past would be *evín. It also appeared in its gerund form in the sentence niðin mened “I have a mind to go, I intend to go” in notes from 1969 (PE22/165).

References ✧ PE17/93; PE22/165

†emēnē- blended from Q. mennē- ✧ PE17/93
†emēnē- blended from Q. emēnie ✧ PE17/93

Inflections

mened	gerund	“to go”	✧ PE22/165
†emēnē-	past		✧ PE17/93

Element In

S. dadwen- “to return, go back”
S. nidhin mened “I have a mind to go, I intend to go” ✧ PE22/165

Derivations

< √MEN “go, move, proceed (in any direction); make for, go towards; have as object, (in)tend; direction, object, point moved toward; region”