erien
proper name. Erien
Changes
Ernis→ Erien ✧ PMI/ErienElements
Word Gloss er “one, alone” -ien “feminine ending” Variations
Ernis✧ PMI/Erien (Ernis)
eirien
noun. daisy (flower)
eirien
feminine name. Daisy
A Sindarin translation of the name of Sam’s daughter “Daisy”, presumably of the same meaning, appearing in Tolkien’s unpublished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings and in the King’s Letter (SD/126, 129). Presumably it is eirien “daisy” used as a name.
Conceptual Development: In earlier versions of the epilogue the name appeared as N. Arien or Erien (SD/117, 121).
Element in
- S. ar Meril bess dîn, ar Elanor, Meril, Glorfinniel, ar Eirien sellath dîn “and Rose his wife; and Elanor, Rose, Goldilocks and Daisy his daughters” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129
eirien
noun. daisy
A word for “daisy” as the name of one of the daughters of Samwise (SD/126). Its origin is unclear, but David Salo suggested it might be a loan from Q. Arien “Sun-maiden” (GS/228).
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s the word for “daisy” was G. hetheglon derived from primitive {ᴱ✶heth·seg·glôn >>} ᴱ✶heth·thed·’lon, effectively a combination of G. heth “white”, G. thed “eye”, and the genitive glôn of G. glâ “day” (GL/49), so literally “✱white eye-of-day”. G. glonthen “dandelion” from the same document had a similar derivation = “eye of the day” (GL/40).
Element in
- S. Eirien “Daisy” ✧ SD/126
Variations
- Eirien ✧ SD/126
eirien
daisy
eirien (pl. eirin) (SD:128:31)
eirien
daisy
(pl. eirin) (SD:128:31)
A proposed daughter of Fingon, first written as Ernis, but rejected when Tolkien decided that Fingon “has not child or wife” (PM/361 note #35). The meaning of her name is unclear, but it may be a combination of er “one” and the feminine suffix -ien.