Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : MUL

[ᴱ]*√MUL root. “grind (fine)”

[ᴱ]*√MUL root. “grind (fine)”: ᴱ√MṚÐṚ “grind”

The root ᴱ√MULU “grind fine” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. mulda “powdery” and ᴱQ. mulma “fine flour” (QL/63). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, G. bloss “wheat” was derived from mol- (GL/25). This root probably as served as the basis for ᴹQ. mulo “dust” from the early 1930s (PE21/10-11). The root √MUL may have been restored later on, as evidenced by the word Q. mŭle “meal [ground grain]” from a list of words having to do with “large & small” from 1968, replacing Q. polë of similar meaning (PE17/115).

ᴹ√POR “*meal, flour” vs. *MUL “grind (fine)”

Derivatives

> ᴹQ. mulo “dust”
> ᴺQ. mul- “to grind, *pulverize”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !mulondo “millstone”
> ᴺQ. mulda “powdery”
> ᴺQ. mulma “fine flour”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !mulmanen “mill”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. mulmar “miller”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. mulmin “mill”
> ᴺS. bloss “wheat”
> ᴺS. !maul “flour”
> ᴺS. !mol- “to grind, pulverize”
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^molnel “molar”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !molor “mill”
> Q. mulë “meal”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !mulessë “porridge”

ᴱ√MULU root. “grind (fine)”

See *√MUL for discussion.

References ✧ GL/23; QL/63

Glosses

“grind” ✧ QL/63
“grind fine” ✧ QL/63

Variations

MULU ✧ QL/63; QL/63
mol- ✧ GL/23

MULU “grind fine” much as MALA¹ ✧ QL/63
MṚÐṚ “grind” may (‽) bear a family relationship to MULU “grind” ✧ QL/63

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. mul “fine powder” ✧ QL/63
- ⇒ ᴱQ. mulda “powdery” ✧ QL/63
- ⇒ ᴱQ. mulma “fine flour” ✧ QL/63
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. mulmar “miller” ✧ QL/63
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. mulmin “mill” ✧ QL/63
> ᴱQ. mul(u)- “to grind” ✧ QL/63; QL/63
> G. bloss “wheat” ✧ GL/23