Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : RIS

ᴹ√RIS root. “slash, rip”

See √RIS for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/KIRIS, RIS¹, RIS²; EtyAC/KIR

Glosses

“slash, rip” ✧ Ety/RIS¹

KIRÍS blended with RIS ✧ EtyAC/KIR

Derivatives

> Ilk. rest “cut” ✧ Ety/RIS²
- ⇒ Ilk. Eglorest ✧ Ety/RIS²
⇒ ᴹ√KIRIS “cut” ✧ Ety/KIRIS; Ety/RIS²
- > ᴹQ. kirisse “slash, gash” ✧ Ety/KIRIS; EtyAC/KIR
- > N. criss “cleft, cut, slash; pass” ✧ Ety/KIRIS; EtyAC/KIR
  - ⇒ 4 compounds
- > N. crist “cleaver, sword” ✧ Ety/KIRIS
  - ⇒ N. Angrist “Iron-cleaver”
  - ⇒ N. Orchrist
> ᴹ✶risse- “a ravine” ✧ Ety/RIS²
- > N. rhis “ravine” ✧ Ety/RIS²; Ety/RIS²
  - ⇒ N. Imladris(t) “Rivendell” ✧ Ety/RIS²
> ᴹ✶rista- “cut” ✧ Ety/RIS²
- > ᴹQ. rista- “to cut” ✧ Ety/RIS²
- > N. rhista- “to cut” ✧ Ety/RIS²
> ᴹQ. rista “cut” ✧ Ety/RIS²
- ⇒ ᴹQ. Latimberista “Rivendell”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !hórista “citation, quotation, (lit.) something cut out”
⇒ N. Orchrist ✧ Ety/RIS¹
> N. rhest “cut” ✧ Ety/RIS²
> ON. rista- “rend, rip” ✧ Ety/RIS¹
- > N. rista- “to rend, rip” ✧ Ety/RIS¹

?ᴱ√FAKA root. “cut”

A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fag- “cut” and G. fanc “cut” (GL/33). It might be related to ᴱ√FḶKḶ “cleave, hew”. There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

FḶKḶ “cleave, hew”

Derivatives

> G. fag- “to cut”
- ⇒ G. fagin “cut” ✧ GL/33
> G. fanc “cut”