Eldamo : Quenya : silumë

Q. silumë adv. “now, (lit.) at this time” (Category: Now)

Q. silumë, adv. “now, at this time, *present” (Category: Now)

A word for “now, at this time (only referred to the present of the time of speech)” appearing in a list of demonstratives from 1968 (VT49/18), a combination of si “this” and lúmë “time”. Similarly formed ᴹQ. sillume “at that date/time” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/110).

Neo-Quenya: The gloss “present” was suggested in Ales Bican’s New Words (ABNW) from the early 2000s.

References ✧ VT44/35; VT49/11, 18

Glosses

“at this time” ✧ VT49/11
“at this time, now” ✧ VT49/18 (sĭlume)

Variations

silume ✧ VT49/11
sĭlume ✧ VT49/18

talumë “at that time”
tălume “at the time we are thinking of or speaking of” as opposed to silume “at this time” ✧ VT49/11

Inflections

sillumello

ablative

“*[from] this hour”

✧ VT44/35

Elements

si¹	“this, here”
lúmë¹	“time, period of time, hour”

sí	“now”	✧ VT49/18

Element In

Q. et sillumello ter yénion yéni tenn’ ambarmetta “*from this hour, through years of years until the ending of the world” ✧ VT44/33

ᴹQ. sillume adv. “*at this time” (Category: Now)

References ✧ PE23/110

Glosses

“*at this time” ✧ PE23/110

Elements

si	“this”
-llume	“time”	✧ PE23/110; PE23/110 (-llume)