Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : TETE

ᴱ√TETE root. “bud, blossom”

⚠️ᴱ√TETE root. “bud, blossom”: √TUY “sprout, bud”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bud, blossom” with derivatives like ᴱQ. tetl “small flower” and ᴱQ. tetse “bud” (QL/91). It had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. teth “a bud” and G. tethla- “to bud” (GL/70). There are no clear signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Reference ✧ QL/92 ✧ “bud, blossom”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. tetl “small flower” ✧ QL/92
- ⇒ ᴱQ. Tetille ✧ QL/92
> ᴱQ. tetse “bud” ✧ QL/92
> ᴱQ. tettele “burgeoning, efflorescence” ✧ QL/92
> G. teth “bud”
- ⇒ G. Tethil ✧ GL/70
- ⇒ G. tethla- “to bud” ✧ GL/70
- ⇒ G. tethlas “petal, *(lit.) bud-leaf” ✧ GL/70