N. tî n. “line, row” (Category: Line)
A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “line, row”, derived from primitive ᴹ✶tēñe under root TEÑ (Ety/TEƷ). It might replace N. tê “line, way” < ᴹ✶teʒē based on the earlier form of the root ᴹ√TEƷ (Ety/TEƷ), or the two words might co-exist: with tî the result of long ē becoming ī [*tēñ(e) > tī(ʒ)] and tê retaining e because the e was not long primitively [*teñē > teʒe > tē].
Conceptual Development: ᴱN. tî or tí “line” appeared in the Early Noldorin Grammar and Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/121, 154). The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. tî as an adjective meaning “straight” but also a noun meaning the same thing as either G. tion “a straight line” or G. tê “mark, line; track; path” (GL/69, 71).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would assume tê and tî coexist, with tê “line, way” used for a continuous line, but tî for a line or row of discrete items, as in [N.] tiwdi “alphabet, (lit.) *letter-row”. I would further assume they were based on the later root √TEG “line” (PE19/97), from primitive *tegē and *tēge respectively.
Reference ✧ Ety/TEÑ ✧ “line, row”
Element In
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| ᴹ✶tēñe > tî | [tēŋe] > [tēɣe] > [tēɣ] > [tīɣ] > [tī] | ✧ Ety/TEÑ |
ᴱN. tî n. “line” (Category: Line)
References ✧ PE13/121, 154
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| †i·nthiath | nasal-mutation plural; t-mutation | ✧ PE13/121 |
| i·thiath | nasal-mutation plural; t-mutation | ✧ PE13/121 |
| tiath | plural | ✧ PE13/154 |
| i·dî | soft-mutation; t-mutation | ✧ PE13/121 |
| o·thî | stop-mutation; t-mutation | ✧ PE13/121 |
G. tî adj. and n. “straight; line” (Category: Line)
References ✧ GL/69, 71
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Element In
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| ᴱ√tē > tî | [tē] > [tī] | ✧ GL/69 |