S. #be prep. “in; ?as, like” (Category: Like, Similar)
A preposition appearing in the King’s Letter, glossed “in”. Carl Hostetter’s suggested it is connected to the root √MI/IMI “in” via the strengthened form MBI that appears in Q. imbë¹ “between” (VT31/19-20). David Salo instead proposed that it may be a cognate of Q. ve¹ “as, like” derived from primitive ✶bē, suffixed with a form of the definite article -n and having the sense “as in the [Shire-reckoning]” (SG/226). This second option seems more likely to me; the primitive form ✶bē was not published when Carl Hostetter made his analysis. @@@
References ✧ AotM/62; SD/129
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| ben | definite | “in the” | ✧ SD/129 |
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G. ba prep. “in” (Category: In, Inside)
A preposition for “in” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/21). With the article it has the form bi- and without the article b’- or ba, presumably pre-vocalic and pre-consonantal. It was equivalent to ᴱQ. ve “as, like”, which in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon was derived from the early root ᴱ√VĪ “as” (QL/101). On other pages of the Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien previously had G. avin “into”, G. bi “in”, G. bin “into”, and G. bir “in, within, inside”, all deleted but more in keeping with the Qenya Lexicon root (GL/20, 22).
References ✧ GL/21
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G. bi prep. “in”
References ✧ GL/20, 22
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G. bin prep. “into”
References ✧ GL/20, 22
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| bi | “in” | ✧ GL/22 (bi) |
G. bir prep. “in, within, inside” (Category: In, Inside)
Reference ✧ GL/22 ✧ “in, within, inside”
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| bi | “in” | ✧ GL/22 (bi) |