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?ᴱ√FEDE root. “*law, bond”

⚠️?ᴱ√FEDE root. “*law, bond”
ᴹ√WED “bind”
ᴹ√STAN “fix, indicate, decide”

A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fedhin “bound by agreement; ally, friend” and G. fedhwen “treaty” (GL/34). There are some Early Noldorin words from the 1920s of similar form, such as ᴱN. fedhui (PE13/142), but they are unglossed so it is unclear whether they retained the same meaning. There are no further signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

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