anna- (i anna, in annar), pa.t. ?aun (with endings one-)
Sindarin
ann
noun. gift
Cognates
- Q. anna “gift, (orig.) thing handed, brought or sent to a person, gift, (orig.) thing handed, brought or sent to a person, *present” ✧ PE22/163
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶annā > ann [annā] > [anna] > [ann] ✧ PE17/090 Variations
- ann ✧ PE17/090
- anw ✧ PE22/163
ann
noun. gift
anno
verb. give!
anna
give
anna
give
(i anna, in annar), pa.t. ?aun (with endings one-)
ant
gift
ant, pl. aint, coll. pl. annath. Also ann (-an at the end of compounds), pl. ain.
ant
gift
pl. aint, coll. pl. annath. Also ann (-an at the end of compounds), pl. ain.
aned
give
annon
noun. great door or gate
anw
noun. gift
anw
noun. gift
fen
noun. door, threshold
fen
door
_ n. _door. Q. fenna. >> fennas
fen(n)
noun. door, door; [N.] threshold
A word for “door” in the name Fen Hollen “Closed Door” (LotR/826; RC/550). In notes from December 1959 (D59), Tolkien based it on the root √PHEN and gave its Quenya equivalent as fenna, indicating a primitive form of ✱phennā (PE17/181). If so, its ordinary form should be fenn, and this was indeed the form in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/341). Perhaps fen is a reduced pseudo-prefixal form.
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien had N. fenn “threshold” derived from ON. phenda under the root ᴹ√PHEN (Ety/PHEN).
Neo-Sindarin: I don’t think the senses “door” and “threshold” are likely to coexist, so for purposes of Neo-Sindarin I would limit fenn to “door” and would use ᴺS. fend < ✱phenda for “threshold”, following the principle that nd remained “at the end of fully accented monosyllables” in Sindarin (LotR/1115).
Cognates
- Q. fendë “door” ✧ PE17/045; PE17/181
Derivations
- √PHEN “door” ✧ PE17/181
Element in
- S. Fen Hollen “Closed Door, Shut Door” ✧ PE17/045; PE17/098; RC/550
- S. fennas “great door, doorway, gateway” ✧ PE17/045
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √PHEN > fen [pʰenna] > [ɸenna] > [fenna] > [fenn] ✧ PE17/181 Variations
- fen ✧ PE17/045; PE17/098; PE17/181
- Fen ✧ RC/550
fend
door
(threshold), construct fen, pl. find, coll. pl. fennath, 2) fennas (gateway), pl. fennais, coll. pl. fennassath, 3) annon (great gate), pl. ennyn
n. gift.