Noldorin
donn
adjective. swart, swarthy
donn
adjective. swart, swarthy; shady, shadowy
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ√DUN “dark (of colour)” ✧ Ety/DUN
Element in
- N. Nan Dongoroth “Vale of Black Horror” ✧ Ety/DUN
- S. Nan Dungortheb “Valley of Dreadful Death”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DUN > donn [dunnā] > [dunna] > [donna] > [donn] ✧ Ety/DUN
drambor
noun. clenched fist
drambor
noun. blow (with fist)
lhumren
adjective. shady
lhumren
noun. shady
paur
noun. fist (often used to mean "hand", its chief use was in reference of the tighly closed hand, as in using an implement or a craft-tool, rather than to the fist used in punching)
paur
noun. fist
Changes
par→ paur “hand” ✧ Ety/KWARCognates
- ᴹQ. qár(e) “fist, hand” ✧ Ety/KWAR; Ety/KWAR; Ety/KWAR
Derivations
Element in
- N. Angbor
- N. Celebrimbor “Silver-fist” ✧ Ety/KWAR
- N. drambor “clenched fist; blow with a fist, clenched fist; blow with a fist; [G.] thudder” ✧ Ety/DARÁM
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources On. pōre > paur [pǭre] > [poure] > [paure] > [paur] ✧ Ety/KWAR Variations
- par ✧ EtyAC/KWAR (
par)
A word appearing as N. lhumren “shady” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, an adjective form of N. lhum “shade” (Ety/LUM).
Conceptual Development: The earliest iteration of this word was G. lómin “shady, shadowy, gloomy; gloom(iness)” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, the adjective form of G. lôm “gloom, shade” (GL/54). A similar word G. lumbrin or lumba “overcast” was an adjective based on G. lum “a cloud” (GL/55).
Neo-Sindarin: Since the root √LUM “shadow, darkness” survived in later writings (PE17/168), I think N. lhumren “shady” can be salvaged, though if adapted to Neo-Sindarin it would need to become ᴺS. lumren as suggested in HSD (HSD). Given the later use of Q. lumbo for “(dark) cloud”, I think the sense “overcast” from Gnomish lumbrin can be salvaged as well.