ᴺQ. [ᴹQ.] cim- v. “[ᴱQ.] to heed, *obey; ⚠️[ᴹQ.] to find” (Category: to Obey)
ᴹQ. kim- v. (basic-verb) “to find” (Category: to Find)
In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien gave ᴱQ. kim- “heed” as related to G. gima- “hear” (GL/38), probably based on an (unattested) early root *ᴱ√GIMI since initial g became k in Early Qenya. In the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 Tolkien instead had ᴹQ. kim- “find” as a replacement for ᴹQ. tuv- (PE22/108 note #50, PE22/125), but this seems to have been transient since tuv- was restored in The Lord of the Rings.
Neo-Quenya: I would keep ᴺQ. cim- as “to heed” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, since this is the closest to a verb for “obey” that we have in Quenya.
References ✧ PE22/108, 125
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| kime | aorist | “finds” | ✧ PE22/108 |
| kime | aorist | “finds” | ✧ PE22/125 |
| kimme | past | “found” | ✧ PE22/108 |
| kímie | perfect; augmentless | “has found” | ✧ PE22/108 |
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| ᴹ√KIM > kime | [kim-] | ✧ PE22/125 |
ᴱQ. kim- v. “to heed” (Category: to Obey)
Reference ✧ GL/38 ✧ “heed”
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