Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : quelmë

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quelmë n. “ruin, utter end, perdition, ⚠️end, death” (Category: to Destroy)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quelmë, n. “ruin, utter end, perdition, ⚠️end, death” (Category: to Destroy)

See ᴱQ. qelme for discussion.

Derivations

< √KWEL¹ “fade, die away, grow faint”

ᴱQ. qelme n. “ruin, utter end, perdition, end, death” (Category: to Destroy)

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qelme “ruin, utter end, perdition, end, death” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QELE “perish, die, decay, fail” (QL/76).

Neo-Quenya: The root √KWEL “fade, die away, grow faint” survives in Tolkien’s later writings, so I would retain ᴺQ. quelmë “ruin, utter end, perdition” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but would use other words for “death” and “end”.

Reference ✧ QL/76 ✧ “ruin, utter end, perdition, end, death”

Derivations

< ᴱ√QELE “perish, die, decay, fade” ✧ QL/76

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√QELE > qelme

[kʷelmē] > [kʷelme]

✧ QL/76