Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : MET

√MET root. “end, finality”

√MET root. “end, finality”: ?ᴱ√FOTO “end, final, last”

This root first appeared as ᴹ√MET “end” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/MET). It may have had a conceptual precursor in ᴱQ. met “mark, aim, object”, but that word was derived from ᴱ√MEKE and had a stem form mekt- (QL/60). In any case, met- appeared quite frequently for “end” words from the 1930s forward, and the root itself was mentioned in a list from the late 1950s or early 1960s where Tolkien clarified that it had to do with “finality” only, as opposed to √TEN which meant “end” in the sense “point aimed at” (VT49/24).

Reference ✧ VT49/24 ✧ met “end = finality”

ten “end in sense of point aimed at” as opposed to met “end = finality” ✧ VT49/24

Derivatives

⇒ Q. métima “last, ultimate, final”
> Q. metta “ending, end”
- ⇒ 7 compounds
> Q. *mette “*end”
- ⇒ Q. Mettelairë “August, *(lit.) End-summer” ✧ PM/136
- ⇒ Q. Metterrívë “January, *(lit.) End-winter”
⇒ Q. Oromet “?Hill at the End”
> S. medui “end, final, last”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !orvedui “yesterday”
- ⇒ S. Arvedui “Last-king”
> S. #meth “last”
- ⇒ S. methed “end”
  - ⇒ S. Methed-en-Glad “End of the Wood” ✧ UT/153
  - ⇒ S. Methedras “Last Peak”
- ⇒ S. Methiriad “?End of Two Rivers”
- ⇒ S. Rochon Methestel “Rider of the Last Hope” ✧ UT/313

ᴹ√MET root. “end”

See √MET for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/MET ✧ “end”

Q. meter “*for” [is, per editors, possibly related to] MET “end” ✧ VT43/33

Derivatives

> ᴹ✶metta “end” ✧ Ety/MET
- > ᴹQ. metta “ending”
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. Mettare “Year’s end”
- > N. meth “end” ✧ Ety/MET
  - ⇒ N. methen “end, final” ✧ Ety/MET
    - ⇒ N. Methedras “Last Peak”
    - ⇒ N. Methen Amon
    - ⇒ N. Methendol
> ᴹQ. mente “point, end” ✧ Ety/MET
⇒ ᴹQ. Metelaire “August, *(lit.) End-summer”
⇒ ᴹQ. Meterríve “January, *(lit.) End-winter”
> ᴹQ. metya- “to put an end to” ✧ Ety/MET
> N. ment “point” ✧ Ety/MET
- ⇒ N. Mornvenniath “Black Mountains”