Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : PHIR

ᴹ√PHIR root. “die of natural causes”

See √PHIR for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/KHIL, PHIR; EtyAC/ÑGUR

Glosses

“die of natural causes” ✧ EtyAC/ÑGUR

Variations

PHIR ✧ Ety/KHIL; Ety/PHIR; EtyAC/ÑGUR
SPIR ✧ EtyAC/ÑGUR

ÑGUR ✧ EtyAC/ÑGUR

Changes

SPIR >> PHIR “die of natural causes” ✧ EtyAC/ÑGUR

Derivatives

⇒ ᴹ✶ilpirin “immortal” ✧ Ety/PHIR
- > ᴹQ. ilfirin “immortal” ✧ Ety/PHIR
> ᴹQ. faire² “natural death (as act)” ✧ Ety/PHIR
> ᴹQ. fire “mortal man” ✧ Ety/PHIR
> ᴹQ. fírima “mortal” ✧ Ety/PHIR; EtyAC/ÑGUR
- ⇒ ᴹQ. #alfírima “immortal”
- ⇒ ᴹQ. fírimáre “mortality, the state of being mortal”
- ⇒ ᴹQ. #Fírimo “Mortal”
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. Alfírimo “Immortal”
> ᴹQ. firin “dead (by natural cause)” ✧ Ety/PHIR
- ⇒ ᴹQ. ilfirin “immortal” ✧ Ety/PHIR
> ᴹQ. firya “human” ✧ Ety/PHIR
- ⇒ ᴹQ. Firyanor ✧ Ety/PHIR
> N. feir¹ “mortal man, mortal” ✧ Ety/KHIL; Ety/PHIR; Ety/PHIR
- ⇒ N. firen “human” ✧ Ety/PHIR
- ⇒ N. Fíriel “Mortal Maid” ✧ Ety/PHIR
- ⇒ N. Torfir “High-man”
  - ⇒ N. Torfirion “Westermanton”
> N. fern “dead (of mortals)” ✧ Ety/PHIR
- ⇒ N. Dor Firn i Guinar “Land of the Dead that Live” ✧ Ety/PHIR

ᴱ√ǶEHE root. “breath; die, expire”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “breath; die, expire” and with the derivative ᴱQ. fé “last hour, death” (QL/41). It also has some derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. fest “breath, breathing” and G. festa- “breath[e]” (GL/35). There are no obvious signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, though the connection between “last breath” and “death” does reappear in the root √PHIR (WJ/387).

References ✧ QL/41, 100

Glosses

“breath; die, expire” ✧ QL/41

Variations

ǶEHE ✧ QL/41
‽FEHE ✧ QL/100

VEHE cp. ‽FEHE ✧ QL/100

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. fé “last hour, last breath, (act of) death” ✧ QL/41
> G. fest “breath, breathing”
- ⇒ G. festa- “to breath[e]” ✧ GL/35
- ⇒ G. ufestog “breathless” ✧ GL/35
> G. feth “one breath”