Eldamo : Early Quenya : metl

ᴱQ. metl (mekil-) n. “centre” (Category: Center)

⚠️ᴱQ. metl (mecil-), n. “centre” (Category: Center): Q. endë “centre, middle; [ᴹQ.] core”

A noun for “centre” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√MEKE (QL/60), also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/60).

References ✧ PME/60; QL/60

Glosses

“centre” ✧ PME/60; QL/60

Variations

metl ✧ PME/60; QL/60

Inflections

mekil-

stem

✧ QL/60

Element In

ᴱQ. mekilwa “central” ✧ QL/60

Derivations

< ᴱ√MEKE “*centre; aim” ✧ QL/60

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√MEKE > metl

[meklǝ] > [mekl] > [mekḷ] > [mekḷ] > [metḷ]

✧ QL/60