Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LIÞI

ᴱ√LIÞI root. “*flow of time”

⚠️ᴱ√LIÞI root. “*flow of time”

A root for various words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s having to do with the flow of time, such as G. lith- “go, depart, be over, finish, end, die”, G. lithin “bygone, ended”, and G. lint “quick, agile, nimble, light” (GL/54), as well as G. laith “time, the course of time; lapse”, and G. laith(r)a- “let slip, lose, mislay, forget; (intr.) to be lost” (GL/52). The last of these was “a confusion of two distinct roots - see lech and lith-”, referring to ᴱ√lech “smooth, slippery” whose derivatives included laitha- “slip (intr.), slide by” (GL/53).

Reference ✧ GL/52 ✧ lith-

G. laitha- a confusion of two distinct roots, see lith- ✧ GL/52

Derivatives

> G. laith¹ “time, the course of time; (properly) lapse”
- ⇒ 5 compounds
> G. #laith² “*lost”
> G. laith(r)a- “to let slip, lose, mislay, forget; (intr.) to be lost”
> G. lint “quick, agile, nimble, light”
- ⇒ G. Tinwelint ✧ LT1A/Tinwë Linto
> G. lith- “to go, depart, be over, finish, end, die”
- ⇒ G. lithin “bygone, ended” ✧ GL/54
> G. lithin “bygone, ended”
> G. lithra- “to cease speaking, become silent”