Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : LAS²

ᴹ√LAS² root. “listen”

ᴹ√LAS² root. “listen”

See √LAS¹ for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/LAS² ✧ “listen”

Derivatives

⇒ ᴹ✶la(n)srondo “hearer, listener, eavesdropper” ✧ Ety/LAS²
- > N. lhathron “hearer, listener, eavesdropper” ✧ Ety/LAS²
> ᴹ✶lassē² “ear” ✧ Ety/LAS¹
- > N. lhewig “ear” ✧ Ety/LAS²
> #ᴹ✶lastā-
- > ᴹQ. lasta- “to listen; to hear” ✧ PE22/103
> ᴹQ. lár “ear” ✧ Ety/LAS²
⇒ ᴹQ. Larmindon
> ᴹQ. lasta “listening, hearing” ✧ Ety/LAS²
- ⇒ ᴹQ. Lastalaika “sharp-ears” ✧ Ety/LAS²
> ᴹQ. lasta- “to listen; to hear” ✧ Ety/LAS²
⇒ N. Lhathleg “sharp-ears” ✧ Ety/LAS²
> N. lhathr(ad)a- “to listen in, eavesdrop” ✧ Ety/LAS²
⇒ N. lhathron “hearer, listener, eavesdropper”

?ᴱ√HIÞI root. “*listen”

A hypothetical early root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. hist “listening, attention” and hitha- “listen, hearken, listen to” (GL/49). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. hist “listening, attention”
> G. hith “listen! hark!”
> G. hitha- “to listen, hearken, listen to”