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MAT root. “eat”

MAT root. “eat”

This was the root for eating words for all of Tolkien’s life, appearing very regularly. It was ᴱ√MATA “eat” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/59), ᴹ√MAT “eat” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/MAT), and √MAT “eat” in etymological notes from the late 1960s (VT48/26), among its many other appearances. This puts it among the most conceptually stable of Elvish roots.

References ✧ PE18/85, 87-88, 95; PE22/136; VT39/5, 7, 11; VT48/26

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ᴹ√MAT root. “eat”

See √MAT for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/LIS, MAT, MOR; EtyAC/MAT; PE18/46, 61-62; PE22/93, 102

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ᴱ√MATA root. “eat”

See √MAT for discussion.

References ✧ GL/44; QL/31, 59

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