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KHEP root. “retain, keep, do not give away or release, keep hold of”

KHEP root. “retain, keep, do not give away or release, keep hold of; ⚠️[ᴱ√] bind; encircle”

The root √KHEP appeared with gloss “retain, keep, do not give away or release, keep hold of” in etymological notes from 1959-60 along with a variant √KHAP “bind, make fast, restrain, deprive of liberty” (VT41/6), and in this period it was almost certainly the basis for S. heb- “keep” in ú-chebin estel anim “I have kept (heb- lenited 1st-person) no hope for myself” (LotR/1061). It might be a later iteration of ᴱ√HEPE, glossed “bind” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/40) and “encircle?” (the question mark is Tolkien’s) in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/48).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, some derivatives of this 1910s root might be salvaged as derivatives of later √KHEP.

References ✧ PE17/157; VT41/6

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ᴱ√HEPE root. “bind, encircle‽”

See √KHEP for discussion.

References ✧ GL/48; QL/40

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