Q. pel- v. “to go round, encircle” (Category: Round)
A verb for “go round, encircle” (SA/pel) with a long history in Tolkien’s writings. In The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared under the root ᴹ√PEL “revolve on fixed point” and was glossed “go round” but also “revolve, return” (Ety/PEL). In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s ᴱQ. pele- was glossed “surround, fence in, pen in” under the early root ᴱ√PELE¹ “fence in” (QL/73).
Neo-Quenya: In Tolkien’s later writings the root √PEL meant “edge, bound, fence, limit” (PE17/65) rather than “revolve” (which became √KWER), so for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use pel- mainly in the sense “go round, encircle” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien in the Silmarillion Appendices (SA/pel). I would also use the Early Qenya senses “surround, fence in, pen in”, but not the 1930s meanings “revolve, return” for which I would use quer- (“revolve”) or entul- (“return”) instead.
Reference ✧ SA/pel ✧ “go round, encircle”
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| √pel- > pel- | [pel-] | ✧ SA/pel |
ᴹQ. pel- v. “to go round, revolve, return” (Category: Round)
Reference ✧ Ety/PEL ✧ “go round, revolve, return”
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| ᴹ√PEL > pel- | [pel-] | ✧ Ety/PEL |
ᴱQ. pele- v. “to surround, fence in, pen in” (Category: Round)
References ✧ QL/73
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| pelle- | past | ✧ QL/73 |
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| ᴱ√PELE¹ > pele- | [pele-] | ✧ QL/73 |