Word of the Week: /mel/
Kris Kowal
Sunday, 12 February, 2006 C.E.
Dear Friends,
In light of the upcoming holiday for St. Valentine, this week's elvish
word is /mel/, the Quenya word for 'love', as in friendship. This
word comes to us in the Sindarin greeting, /Mae govannen mellonamin/,
meaning 'Well met, my friend'. /Mellon/ is the Sindarin word for
'friend', and inflected with /-amin/, becomes 'my friend'.
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From the Lost Road, p415
MEL- love (as friend). Q /mel-/; /melin/ deaer, /melda/ beloved, dear;
/melme/ love; /melisse/ (f.), /melindo) (m.) lover; /melima/ loveable,
fair, /Melimar/ = Lindar. Irregular vocalism: */malo/ friend. Q
/málo/. N /meleth/ love; /mell/ dear; /mellon/ friend; /meldir/
friend, f. /meldis/; /melethorn/, /melethril/ lover. /mîl/ love,
/affection; /milui/ friendlily, loving, kind.
Note: the Lindar, were the hindmost host of elves on the trek to
Valinor from Cuvienen. /Lin/ means 'song'.
Kris.
