Name of the “Doors of Night” leading beyond the world in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/237, 241), also appearing as a rejected name in The Etymologies as combination of ando “door” and the genitive of lóme “night” (EtyAC/LOƷ).
Qenya
ando
adverb. long
ando
noun. gate, door
andolat
place name. Andolat
ando lómen
proper name. Door of Night
andon
noun. great gate, great gate, [ᴱQ.] door, gate
A noun for a “great gate” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, an augmentative form of ᴹQ. ando “gate” under the root ᴹ√AD “entrance, gate” (Ety/AD).
Conceptual Development: The word ᴱQ. andon first appeared in the Early Noldorin Dictionary of the 1920s as a cognate of ᴱN. ann “door” (PE13/137, 160). It was also an element in the name ᴱQ. Andonavestan “Gates of Summer” (PE13/143, 160). This earlier iteration was not augmentative as it was in the 1930s.
anda
adjective. long
andóre
place name. Land of Gift
andul
noun. long pole
andólama
noun. long consonant
Name of a hill appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/NDOL). It is derived from the root ᴹ√NDOL, but its meaning is unclear.