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N. megli n. “bear, (lit.) honey-eater” (Category: Bear)

⚠️N. megli, n. “bear, (lit.) honey-eater” (Category: Bear)
ᴺS. ^medli “bear, (lit.) honey-eater”

A noun appearing as N. {magli >>} megli “bear” in The Etymologies, a combination of N. mad- “eat” and N. glî “honey”, hence more literally “honey-eater” (Ety/LIS, MAT; EtyAC/LIS, MAT), where dl > gl as was usual in Noldorin. This word also appeared in the phrase i vegli vorn “the black bear” in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s (PE22/33).

Conceptual Development: ᴱN. magli “a bear, honey-eater” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s.

Neo-Sindarin: The sound change dl > gl was not a feature of Sindarin, so most Neo-Sindarin writers adapt this word as ᴺS. medli “bear”, as suggested in Hiswelókë’s Sindarin Dictionary (HSD).

References ✧ Ety/LIS, MAT; EtyAC/LIS, MAT; PE22/33

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vegli soft-mutation; m-mutation “bear” ✧ PE22/33

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mad- “to eat”
glî “honey”
ᴹ√MAT “eat” ✧ Ety/MAT; EtyAC/MAT (MAT)
ᴹ√LIS “honey” ✧ Ety/MAT; EtyAC/MAT (LIS)

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ᴹ✶mad-lī > megli [madlī] > [madli] > [medli] > [megli] ✧ Ety/LIS

ᴱN. magli n. “bear, (lit.) honey-eater” (Category: Bear)

See N. megli for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/149

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