Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : NEM

√NEM root. “seem, appear” (Category: to Seem)

√NEM root. “seem, appear” (Category: to Seem)

XXX PE23

A root implied by the verb ᴹQ. nem- “seem” in the Quendian & Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (EVS1) and Quenya Verbal System from the late 1940s (PE22/93 note #7; PE22/99-100), as well as Q. nemesta “appearance, seeming” Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2) from the early 1950s (PE22/137). In EVS1 Tolkien toyed with using the verb form nim-, but this was revised to nem- (PE22/93 note #6 and #7). The forms Q. níma/nimulë and S. nîf/nivol in 1957 notes, all glossed “phantom” or “seeming”, indicate Tolkien may have restored *√NIM “seem”. I prefer to stick with better attested √NEM for purposes of Neo-Eldarin.

Reference ✧ PE23/123

Derivatives

> ᴺQ. !nemba “seeming, evident, probably but not necessarily so”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !nembalë “evidence”
> ᴺS. !nem “seeming, evident, probably but not necessarily so”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !nemmas “evidence”
> ᴺS. !nev- “to seem, appear”
> ✶nem- “to seem” ✧ PE23/123
- > Q. nem-² “*to seem, appear”
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !nannem- “to disappear”
  - ⇒ Q. nemesta “appearance, seeming”
> Q. nimulë “phantom, a seeming”
> S. nivol “phantom, a seeming”

#ᴹ✶NIM v. “to seem”

References ✧ PE22/93; PE23/89

Glosses

“it appears, occurs to (one’s mind)” ✧ PE23/89

Variations

NIM ✧ PE23/89

Inflections

nemini	aorist with-1st-sg-object	“appears/seems to me”	✧ PE22/93
nimini	aorist with-1st-sg-object		✧ PE22/93

Derivatives

> ᴹQ. nem- “to seem, appear”
- ⇒ ᴹQ. nemeste “appearance”
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. nemestea “apparent” ✧ PE22/111
- ⇒ ᴹQ. nenemma- “to keep on (re-)appearing”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !nenta- “to pretend, (lit.) make seem”
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !mainenta- “to brag, (lit.) make seem excellent”
> ᴹQ. nim- “to seem, appear” ✧ PE23/89; PE23/89