Early Quenya
ána
noun. crown of head, top
Cognates
- G. ôn “crown of head, top” ✧ GL/62
Variations
- āna ✧ GL/62
na
preposition. for
Element in
- Eq.
na voru“for always” ✧ PE15/69 (na voru)
an(a)
preposition. to(wards); until
Derivations
- ᴱ√ANA “give, send towards” ✧ QL/031
Element in
- Eq. ar váro naltur an ómi karmar “*but rather they are to all deeds” ✧ PE15/32
- Eq. mára mesta an ni véla tye ento, ya rato nea “good-bye until I see you next, and I hope it will be soon” ✧ LFC/030
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√ANA > ana [anā] > [ana] ✧ QL/031 Variations
- an ✧ LFC/030; PE15/32
- ana ✧ QL/031
kandóla
noun. crown of head
A word appearing as ᴱQ. kandóla “crown of head” in a list of body-parts from the 1920s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. nóla which likewise could mean “crown of head” (PE14/117), but elsewhere generally meant “head” or “hill” (QL/67). The initial element of candóla is probably from ᴱ√KASA “head”.
Neo-Quenya: As the basic elements continued to appear in later versions of Quenya, I would retain this word as ᴺQ. candóla “crown of head” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, with kas-ndōlā > candóla, because sn > zn > nn after which the long cluster nnd reduced to nd.