S. #peleth n. “waning” (Category: to Fade)
A noun form of pel- “*to fade, wane” indicated by the month name Narbeleth “October, Sun-waning” from The Lord of the Rings appendices (LotR/1107). It was clearly derived from the root √KWEL “fade, die away, grow faint” (PE18/103), where ancient [kw] became [p] in Sindarin.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. cweloth “fading” based on a similar verb G. cwel- “fade, wither” (GL/28); the Sindarin sound change of [kw] to [p] did not occur in Gnomish of the 1910s. The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. *pelin < ᴹ✶kwelēnē in its mutated form -belin as an element in N. lhasbelin “autumn” (Ety/LAS¹), presumably “*leaf-fading”.
References ✧ LotR/1107
Inflections
| #beleth | soft-mutation; p-mutation | “waning” | ✧ LotR/1107 |
Elements
| #pel- | “*to fade, wane” | ✧ LotR/1107 (#bel-) |
| -th | “abstract noun” |
Element In
N. #pelin n. “*fading” (Category: to Fade)
References ✧ Ety/LAS¹
Inflections
| belin | soft-mutation; p-mutation | ✧ Ety/LAS¹ |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶kwelēnē > belin | [kwelēnē] > [pelēnē] > [pelīnē] > [pelīne] > [pelīn] > [pelin] | ✧ Ety/LAS¹ |