Eldamo : Early Quenya : hepe-

ᴱQ. hepe- v. “to bind” (Category: to Bind)

⚠️ᴱQ. hepe-, v. “to bind” (Category: to Bind): ᴺQ. !hap-¹ “to bind, restrain; ⚠️to retain, keep, detain”; ᴺQ. !hep- “to keep”

A word appearing as ᴱQ. hepin “I bind” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s and as hepe- “bind” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, derived from the early root ᴱ√HEPE of the same meaning (QL/40). It reappeared in a past form hepsine “bound” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s (PE14/56).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I prefer to use neologisms like ᴺQ. hap- for “to bind” and ᴺQ. hep- for “to keep”, consistent with the later meaning of these roots.

References ✧ PE14/56; PME/40; QL/40

Glosses

“bind” ✧ PME/40

Variations

hepe- ✧ PME/40

Inflections

hempe	past		✧ QL/40
hepsine	past	“bound”	✧ PE14/56
hepin	present 1st-sg	“I bind”	✧ QL/40

Element In

ᴱQ. ni·hepsine nímo tanko i·mailinen losselin “(it was) I myself (that) bound firmly the beautiful flowers” ✧ PE14/56

Cognates

G. heb- “to bind, bind round”

Derivations

< ᴱ√HEPE “bind, encircle‽” ✧ QL/40

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√HEPE > hepin

[xep-] > [hep-]

✧ QL/40