Sindarin 

Anduin

place name. Anduine

topon. -. Q. Anduine.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:40] < ANAD long + ?. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

anduin

place name. Great River, (lit.) Long River

The “Great River” of northwestern Middle-earth (LotR/52), a compound of and “long” and duin “river”, and thus literally meaning “Long River” (RC/765, VT48/23).

Conceptual Development: This river was first mentioned as N. Anduin in the earliest versions of the “Fall of Númenor” from the 1930s (LR/33). In the earliest drafts of the Lord of the Rings from the 1940s this river was named N. Beleghir “Great River”, but it was quickly changed to Anduin (RS/410). As he composed the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien considered other variants: Sirvinya “New Sirion” (TI/119) and Andon (TI/298), but all were rejected in favor of Anduin.

Sindarin [LotR/0052; LotRI/Anduin; LotRI/Great River; MRI/Anduin; PE17/012; PE17/040; PMI/Anduin; RC/350; RC/765; S/291; SA/an(d); SA/duin; SI/Anduin; SI/Great River; SMI/Anduin; UTI/Anduin; VT48/23; WJI/Anduin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Anduin

noun. long river

and (“long”) + duin (“long and large river”)

Sindarin [Tolkiendil] Group: Tolkiendil Compound Sindarin Names. Published by

duin

noun. (long and large) river (having strong current)

Sindarin [S/430, LotR/F, TC/179, VT/48:24] Group: SINDICT. Published by

Anduin

Anduin

Anduin is a Sindarin name meaning "long river" or "great river", composed of and + duin.

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway] Published by

Anduin

long river or great river

Anduin is a Sindarin name meaning "long river" or "great river", composed of and + duin.

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway "Anduin"] Published by

duin

large river

(i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin), coll. pl. duinath (Names:179, PM:54); compare the river-name Anduin, ”long river”.

duin

river

(long, large river with strong current) duin (i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin) (VT48:24)

ann

adjective. long

adj. long. Rare except in old names (e.g. Anduin). >> and

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:12:40:121] < ANAD long. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

and

adjective. long

Sindarin [PE17/012; PE17/040; PE17/090; PE17/121; PE17/147; RC/765; SA/an(d); VT42/28] Group: Eldamo. Published by

anann

adverb. long, for a long time

Sindarin [LotR/VI:IV, Letters/308] an+and, OS *ananda. Group: SINDICT. Published by

anann

adverb. long

adv. long. Cuio i Pheriain anann 'May the Halflings live long'.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:102] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

and

adjective. long

Sindarin [Ety/348, S/427, X/ND1] Group: SINDICT. Published by

and

adjective. long

adj. long. i·arben na megil and 'The Knight of the Long Sword'. >> ann

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:12:121:147] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

ann

adjective. long

sirion

place name. Great River

The Great River of Beleriand (S/120), a combination of sîr “river” and the adjective iaun “wide”, reduced to its suffixal form -ion also seen in the names of lands (PE17/42).

Conceptual Development: This river was named G. Sirion in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/238) and was explained as an archaic word for “river” in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/67). The name N. Sirion appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s as an elaboration of N. sîr (Ety/SIR). The derivation given above appeared in Tolkien’s Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/42). In an early name list its Qenya equivalent was given as ᴱQ. Sirion as well (PE13/102).

Sindarin [MRI/Sirion; PE17/042; PMI/Sirion; SA/sîr; SI/Sirion; UTI/Sirion; WJI/Sirion] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sîr

noun. river

Sindarin [Ety/385, S/437, RC/384] Group: SINDICT. Published by

anann

long

(adverb, = "for a long time") anann

anann

long

and

long

(adjective) and (pl. aind),

and

long

(pl. aind)

andaith

long mark

(no distinct pl. form). The word refers to an accent-like mark used to indicate long vowels in Tengwar modes that employ separate vowel letters, like the Mode of Beleriand.

anfang

longbeard

pl. Enfeng, coll. pl. Anfangrim (WJ:10, 108, 205)

angerthas

long rune-row

(and + certhas).

annabon

long-snouted one

pl. ennebyn, coll. pl. annabonnath. (Archaic form andabon.)

brûn

long endured/established/in use

(old), lenited vrûn, pl. bruin;

celon

river

(i gelon, o chelon), pl. celyn (pl. i chelyn)

ennin

long year

. No distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. enniniath.

ethir

of a river

(estuary), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. ethiriath. Note: a homophone means "spy".

lind

river

”singer” may also be used of rivers (see

sirion

great river

sirion (i hirion, o sirion), pl. siryn (i siryn).

sîr

river

1) (also = rill) sîr (i hîr, o sîr), in compounds sir- or -hir or -hír; no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîr), coll. pl. siriath. Note: sîr is also the adverb ”today”. 2) celon (i gelon, o chelon), pl. celyn (pl. i chelyn), 3) The word lind ”singer” may also be used of rivers (see . (WJ.309).

sîr

river

(i hîr, o sîr), in compounds sir- or -hir or -hír; no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîr), coll. pl. siriath. Note: sîr is also the adverb ”today”.

taen

thin

(lenited daen, no distinct pl. form). Note: a homophone means ”height, summit of high mountain”.

Noldorin 

anduin

place name. Great River

Noldorin [LR/033; LRI/Anduin; RS/410; RSI/Anduin; SDI1/Anduin; TI/124; TI/144; TI/298; TII/Anduin; WRI/Anduin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

beleghir

place name. Great River

Precursor to the river name Anduin appearing in the Lord of the Rings from the 1940s (RS/410), a combination of beleg “great” and the lenited form of sîr “river”.

Noldorin [RS/410; RSI/Beleghir; TII/Anduin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ann

adjective. long

Noldorin [Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/MBUD; Ety/RAD; Ety/TEK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

anann

adverb. long

ann

adjective. long

Noldorin [Ety/348, S/427, X/ND1] Group: SINDICT. Published by

celon

noun. river

Noldorin [Celon (name) Ety/363] Group: SINDICT. Published by

duirro

noun. river-bank

Noldorin [VT/46:10] Group: SINDICT. Published by

sirion

noun. great river

Noldorin [Sirion Ety/385] Group: SINDICT. Published by

sîr

noun. river

Noldorin [Ety/385, S/437, RC/384] Group: SINDICT. Published by

sîr

noun. river

Noldorin [Ety/SIR; RS/433] Group: Eldamo. Published by

taen

adjective. long (and thin)

Noldorin [Ety/391] Group: SINDICT. Published by

Quenya 

Anduinë

anduinë

Anduinë place-name = Sindarin Anduin, Long River (PE17:40)

anduinë

place name. Long River

The Quenya form of S. Anduin (PE17/40), a compound of anda “long” and archaic †-(n)duinë “river”, which appears only in compounds (VT48/30).

nuinë

river (of large volume, and liable to flooding)

nuinë noun "river (of large volume, and liable to flooding)". The word is said to be archaic, surviving chiefly in topographical names. It comes from earlier duine, hence appearing in that form in a name like Nunduinë (VT48:30-31), apparently also Anduinë (q.v.) Tolkien struck out the paragraph where nuinë occurs, but the names Nunduinë/Anduinë would suggest that the word as such is conceptually valid.

nuinë

suffix. river

anda

long

anda adj. "long" (ÁNAD/ANDA), "far" (PE17:90).In Andafangar noun "Longbeards", one of the tribes of the Dwarves (= Khuzdul Sigin-tarâg and Sindarin Anfangrim) (PM:320). Compare Andafalassë, #andamacil, andamunda, andanéya, andatehta, Anduinë. Apparently derived from the adj. anda is andavë "long" as adverb ("at great length", PE17:102), suggesting that the ending - can be used to derive adverbs from adjectives (LotR3:VI ch. 4, translated in Letters:308)

andavë

long, at great length

andavë adv. "long, at great length" (PE17:102); see anda

ando

long

ando (2) adv. "long"; maybe replaced by andavë; see anda (VT14:5)

celusindi

river

celusindi _("k")_noun "river" (LT1:257; hardly a valid word in Tolkien's later Quenya, where the terms sírë and sirya appear instead)

hlóna

river, especially given to those at all seasons full of water from mountains

[hlóna (2) noun "a river, especially given to those at all seasons full of water from mountains" (VT48:27; the word is marked with a query and the note containing it rejected; it was apparently replaced by lón, q.v.)]

nen

river

nen noun "river" (LT1:248), "river, water" (LT1:262) (In Tolkien's later Quenya, nén with a long vowel means "water", but hardly "river" - that is sírë.)

sindi

river

sindi noun "river" (LT1:265; rather sírë in LotR-style Quenya)

sirya

river

#sirya noun "river", attested in the dual form siryat (VT47:11). Compare sírë.

sír

river

sír noun "river", shorter form of sirë (PE17:65, VT49:17)

sír(ë)

noun. river, river, [ᴱQ.] stream

The most common Quenya word for “river”, derived from the root √SIR “flow”.

Conceptual Development: This word first appeared as ᴱQ. sīre “stream” as a derivative of ᴱ√SIŘI [SIÐI] (QL/84), and this form and gloss also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/84). The form ᴹQ. siri- “river” appeared in the Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s, along with uninflected sire with short i and various inflected forms with siry- (PE21/10). The form sīre “river” with long ī appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of ᴹ√SIR “flow” (Ety/SIR; EtyAC/SIR). In several notes from the mid-1960s, it appeared in monosyllabic form sír (PE17/65) or sīr (VT49/17), but it had dual form siryat from the late 1960s implying a stem form of sirĭ- and a development similar to that of DN from the early 1930s (VT47/11).

Neo-Eldarin: Its form síre is probably better known and more commonly used in Neo-Quenya. For example this is the typical form in Helge Fauskanger’s NQNT (NQNT).

Quenya [PE17/065; VT47/11; VT49/17] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sírë

river

sírë noun "river" (SIR, VT46:13), "stream" (LT1:265). Also short form sír, q.v.Compare #sirya.

sóra

long, trailing

sóra adj. "long, trailing" (LT2:344)

Khuzdûl

gabilân

place name. Great River

Khuzdûl [NM/311; WJ/336; WJI/Gabilān; WJI/Gevelon] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sigin Reconstructed

adjective. long

Primitive elvish

ʒandā

adjective. long

Primitive elvish [PE17/155; VT47/27] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Telerin 

anda

adjective. long


Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Gnomish

sîr

noun. river

Gnomish [GL/67; LT1A/Sirion] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

lene

root. long

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ᴱ√LENE “long”, with the added explanation that it “developed in opp. directions of slow, tedious, trailing, etc. and — stretch, thin, etc.”. Tolkien originally put the word ᴱQ. lenka “slow, left” under this root, but seems to have transfered this word to ᴱ√LEKE, perhaps at the same time he elaborated on the meaning of ᴱ√LENE “long”. Its remaining derivatives include ᴱQ. lenwa “long and thin, straight, narrow” and ᴱQ. lenu- “stretch”.

There are a number of words in the Gnomish Lexicon that seem to be derived from this root, including G. len “wherewith, far, long, away” and G. lenwi “length, distance”, but these were rejected, and Tolkien replaced them with G. lenc “far, distant” derived from ᴱ√leŋe (which was followed by other similar Gnomish derivatives), possibly representing a conceptual shift in this root (GL/53). In any case, there are no clear signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, unless perhaps it remanifested as ᴹ√LEN “way, (?road)” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (EtyAC/LEN).

Early Primitive Elvish [GL/53; LT2A/Glend; QL/053] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

-léni

suffix. long

Early Quenya [GL/39; QL/053] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-lénu

suffix. long

anda

adjective. long

andra

adjective. long

sindi

noun. river

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “river” derived from the root ᴱ√SIŘI [SIÐI] (QL/84). The same word appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/84).

Early Quenya [LT1A/Kelusindi; LT1A/Sirion; PME/084; QL/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

anda

adjective. long

Qenya [Ety/ÁNAD; PE18/032; PE22/011; PE22/020; PE22/021; PE22/096; PE22/125] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ando

adverb. long

síre

noun. river

Qenya [Ety/SIR; EtyAC/SIR; PE21/10] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Doriathrin

celon

noun. river

A noun meaning “river” developed from the primitive form ᴹ✶kelun (Ety/KEL), where the [[ilk|final [un] became [on]]].

Conceptual Development: This word was initially marked as Noldorin.

Doriathrin [Ety/KEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

duil

noun. river

A noun meaning “river”, simply an elaboration of its root ᴹ√DUY (Ety/DUI).

Doriathrin [Ety/DUI; EtyAC/RAMBĀ] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Old Noldorin 

anda

noun. long

Old Noldorin [Ety/TEK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sīre

noun. river

Old Noldorin [Ety/SIR; EtyAC/SIR] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

andā

adjective. long

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ÁNAD; Ety/MBUD] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kelun

noun. river

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tainā

adjective. long

Middle Primitive Elvish [PE18/057] Group: Eldamo. Published by