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S. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)

S. celeb, n. “silver” (Category: Silver)
G. giltha “white metal”
ᴱN. tlub “silver”

The word celeb was the word for “silver” in Sindarin and its conceptual precursors throughout Tolkien’s life.

Conceptual Development: G. celeb “silver” appeared all the way back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where it was related to the early root ᴱ√TELEPE of the same meaning (GL/25; QL/91). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s ᴱN. celeb was derived instead from ᴱ✶kelekwé with the sound change of primitive kw to p and later to b (PE13/140), though in that same document he considered (but rejected) ᴱ✶t’lépe > ᴱN. tlub “silver” (PE13/154). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien introduced a new root ᴹ√KYELEP “silver” to be the basis of N. celeb, with the sound change whereby intial ky became k (c) (Ety/KYELEP). This sound change continued to be a feature of Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s, and Tolkien retained this derivation going forward.

References ✧ Let/423, 426; LotR/1113; NM/349; PE17/36, 42, 49; RC/775; SA/celeb; TI/174; UT/266

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kyelepē > celeb [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] ✧ Let/426
kyelep- > celeb [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] ✧ NM/349
kelep/kyelep > celeb [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] ✧ PE17/36
kyelep- > celeb [kjelepē] > [kelepē] > [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] ✧ UT/266

N. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)

References ✧ Ety/KYELEP

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ON. kelepe > celeb [kelepe] > [kelep] > [keleb] ✧ Ety/KYELEP

ᴱN. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)

References ✧ PE13/140, 156

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#geleb soft-mutation; c-mutation “silver” ✧ PE13/156

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G. celeb n. “silver” (Category: Silver)

References ✧ GG/12; GL/25; LT1A/Ilsaluntë, Telimpë

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celbi dative ✧ GG/12
celeb dative ✧ GG/12
no·geleb dative ✧ GG/12
a·gelebir dative plural ✧ GG/12
celbir dative plural ✧ GG/12
celebir dative plural ✧ GG/12
a·geleb genitive ✧ GG/12
celba genitive ✧ GG/12
celeb genitive ✧ GG/12
a·gelebin genitive plural ✧ GG/12
a·gelebion genitive plural ✧ GG/12
celbion genitive plural ✧ GG/12
celebion genitive plural ✧ GG/12
celebin plural ✧ GG/12

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