Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : PṚTṚ

*ᴱ√PṚTṚ root. “judge”

⚠️*ᴱ√PṚTṚ root. “judge”

A hypothetical root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such G. pridu- “decide” and G. pridwir “judge” (GL/64). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. pridu- “to decide”
> G. pridwen “judgment”
⇒ G. pridwir “judge”
> G. prind “distinction”