Eldamo : Middle Quenya : ehtelu-

ᴹQ. ehtelu- v. (u-verb) “to well, bubble up” (Category: Spring, Well)

ᴹQ. ehtelu-, v. (u-verb) “to well, bubble up” (Category: Spring, Well): ᴱQ. quelu- “to well up”

A verb in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948, a combination of primitive ᴹ✶et “out” and ᴹ✶kelu- “flow, well up” (PE22/103), whose phonological developments mirror ehtelë. See ᴹQ. kelu- “to flow forth” for a discussion of similar verbs.

Conceptual Development: It seems to be a later iteration of (archaic) ᴱQ. †kektelu- “bubble up” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a verb form of ᴱQ. †kektele “fountain” (QL/46).

References ✧ PE22/103, 117

Glosses

“well, bubble up” ✧ PE22/103

Variations

ehtelu- ✧ PE22/103; PE22/117

Inflections

ehtelunelye	long-perfect	✧ PE22/103
ehtelle	past; strong-past	✧ PE22/103; PE22/117
etekélie	perfect	✧ PE22/103

Derivations

< ᴹ✶ektelu- “to well, bubble up, gush forth” ✧ PE22/103 (et-kelu)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶et-kelu > ehtelu-

[etkelu-] > [ektelu-] > [extelu-]

✧ PE22/103

ᴱQ. †kektelu- v. “to bubble up” (Category: Spring, Well)

See ᴹQ. ehtelu- for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/46 ✧ “bubble up”

Elements

ᴱ√KEKE¹	“to bubble up”	✧ QL/46
ᴱ√KELE	“flow, run; ooze, trickle”	✧ QL/46