ando (1) noun "gate", also name of tengwa #5 (AD, Appendix E). A deleted entry in the Etymologies gave Ando Lómen, evidently "Door of Night" (VT45:28; notice "Qenya" genitive in -n rather than -o as in LotR-style Quenya)
Quenya
andon
great gate
ando
gate
fenna
door
fenna noun "door" (PE17:45, 181)
fenna
noun. door
fende
noun. door
fendë
noun. door
A word appearing as {phende >>} fende “door” in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969 (PE22/166 and note #112). The deleted variant probably indicates its primitive form.
Conceptual Development: The earliest “door” word was ᴱQ. posta in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root {ᴱ√PONO >>} ᴱ√BOÐO (QL/75). Another precursor was ᴹQ. fenda “threshold” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√PHEN (Ety/PHEN). In notes from December 1959 (D59) Tolkien gave Q. fenna as a derivative of √PHEN and cognate to S. fen, all meaning “door” (PE17/181).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I prefer 1969 fendë as the word for “door”, but I think [ᴹQ.] fenda “threshold” might remain viable as a separate derivative of the root.
Changes
phende→ fende ✧ PE22/166Cognates
- S. fen(n) “door, door; [N.] threshold” ✧ PE17/045; PE17/181
Derivations
- √PHEN “door” ✧ PE17/181
Element in
- Q. á sac’ i fendë, mecin “close the door, please” ✧ PE22/166
- ᴺQ. fennatir “door-watcher”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √PHEN > fenna [pʰenna] > [ɸenna] > [fenna] ✧ PE17/181 Variations
- fenna ✧ PE17/045; PE17/181
- fende ✧ PE22/166
- phende ✧ PE22/166 (
phende)
andon noun "great gate" (andond-, as in pl. andondi) (AD)