Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : NEM

[ᴹ]*√NEM root. “seem, appear” (Category: to Seem)

[ᴹ]*√NEM root. “seem, appear” (Category: to Seem)

A root implied by the verb ᴹQ. nem- “seem” in the Quenya Verbal System from the 1940s (PE22/99), as well as Q. nemesta “appearance, seeming” from Common Eldarin: Verb Structure from the early 1950s (PE22/137). The forms Q. níma/nimulë and S. nîf/nivol in 1957 notes, all glossed “phantom” or “seeming”, hint that this root may have become *√NIM. I think this is somewhat tenuous though, so I’d stick with √NEM for purposes of Neo-Eldarin until we get more information.

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”
> 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✶nem- v. “to seem”

References ✧ PE22/93

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”