Eldamo : Neo-Primitive Elvish : ILIM

ᴱ√ILI¹ root. “shine oily”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “shine oily” with derivatives like ᴱQ. ilma/G. ilm “oil” and ᴱQ. ilin (ilim-) “milk” (QL/42; GL/50). The sense “oil” seems to have been transferred to a new primitive form ✶mḷgo in the 1920s (PE13/139). However, ᴱQ. ilin (ilim-) “milk” remains the only Elvish word for “milk”, and I think it is worthwhile to preserve this word by assuming the existence of a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√ILIM of this meaning. The root ᴱ√ILI might have reemerged in a 1968 note as √LIP “oil” as suggested by Wynne, Smith and Hostetter, but this new root had no derivatives given (VT44/15, 20 note #7).

Reference ✧ QL/42 ✧ “shine oily”

ILI¹ “shine oily” compare ultimately to ILU “ether, the slender airs among the stars” ✧ QL/42
ILI¹ “shine oily” might have remerged (VT44/20 note #7) as √LIP “oil”
ILU “ether, the slender airs among the stars” compare to ILI¹ “shine oily” ✧ QL/42

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. ilin “milk” ✧ QL/42
- ⇒ ᴱQ. ilimba “milky” ✧ QL/42
> ᴱQ. ilma¹ “oil” ✧ QL/42
> ᴱQ. ilqa “oily, smooth, glossy” ✧ QL/42
> G. ilm “oil, fat, grease”
- ⇒ G. ilbrin “oily, fat, greasy” ✧ GL/50