@@@ gloss “crafter” sugested by Fiona Jallings (FJNS/340)
Noldorin
doer
noun. bridegroom
doer
noun. bridegroom
Cognates
- ᴹQ. nér “man, adult male” ✧ Ety/NDER
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NDERE > daer [ndǣr] > [ndair] > [dair] > [daer] ✧ Ety/DER On. ndair > doer [ndair] > [dair] > [doer] ✧ Ety/NDER Variations
- daer ✧ Ety/DER (On. daer)
ceredir
noun. doer, maker
ceredir
noun. doer, maker, doer, maker, *crafter (m.)
Element in
- ᴺS. ceredis “crafter (f.)”
enner
masculine name. Bridegroom
Cognates
- ᴹQ. Ender “Bridegroom” ✧ Ety/TULUK; EtyAC/E
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DER > Enner [endero] > [ender] > [enner] ✧ Ety/TULUK ᴹ✶Enderō > Enner [endero] > [endero] > [ender] > [enner] ✧ EtyAC/E
post
noun. pause, halt, rest, cessation, respite
dilia-
verb. to stop up
A noun appearing as N. doer “bridegroom” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√NDER of similar meaning (Ety/NDER). It is unusual in that its primitive form is ᴹ✶ndǣr, a rare example of the a-fortification of primitive e to ǣ (PE18/46). In Old Noldorin this became ON. ndair, and in Noldorin of the 1930s the diphthong [[n|[ai] became [oe] or [ae]]]. Indeed, in another entry in The Etymologies, Tolkien gave a variant form daer for “bridegroom”, though somewhat mysteriously he marked it as Old Noldorin (Ety/DER).
Neo-Sindarin: The a-fortification of primitive e remained a feature in Tolkien’s later writings, though in the 1950s Tolkien marked the result as ę̄ rather than ǣ (PE18/95). Thus primitive √NDER > ✱ndę̄r > OS. ndair > S. daer remains a plausible scenario in Sindarin, but ai > oe no longer occurred as it did in Noldorin. Therefore, I’d use the form ᴺS. daer for “bridegroom” in Neo-Sindarin, as suggested in HSD (HSD).