fân (“cloud”) + ui (adjective suffix) + (n-)dôl (“head, peak”) #The lenition of the final element seems to be very strange, but the stem could have been reinterpreted to be DOL-.
Sindarin
fanuidhol
place name. Cloudyhead
Cognates
- Kh. Bundushathûr “Cloudy-head” ✧ LotR/0283; LotRI/Bundushathûr; LotRI/Fanuidhol; PE17/035
- Kh. shathûr “cloud(s)” ✧ RC/268
Elements
Word Gloss fanui “cloudy, (lit.) having much cloud” dol(l) “head, hill” Variations
- fanuiðol ✧ PE17/026
- Fanuiðol ✧ PE17/036
- Fanui-dhol ✧ RGEO/66
Fanuidhol
noun. cloudy head
Fanuidhol
place name. 'Cloudyhead'
Fanuidhol
Fanuidhol
-dhol
head
_ suff. _head (often applied to hills or mountains that had _not _a sharp apex). >> Fanuidhol
dol
head
doll
head
amon
hill
1) amon (pl. emyn) (steep-sided mount), 2) dôl (i dhôl, construct dol) (head), pl. dŷl (i nŷl). Note: In the Etymologies, this word was derived from a root with initial nd- (NDOL), which would make the mutations different (i nôl, pl. i ndŷl). However, the later name Fanuidhol "Cloudyhead" apparently indicates that the lenited form of this d was later to be dh (whereas it would be n if the former derivation had been maintained). 3) tund (i dund, o thund, construct tun) (mound), pl. tynd (i thynd), coll. pl. tunnath.
dôl
head
dôl (i dhôl, construct dol) (hill), pl. dŷl (i nŷl). Note: In the Etymologies, this word was derived from a root with initial nd- (NDOL), which would make the mutations different (i nôl, pl. i ndŷl). However, the later name Fanuidhol "Cloudyhead" apparently indicates that the lenited form of this d was later to be dh (whereas it would be n if the former derivation had been maintained).
dôl
hill
(i** dhôl, construct **dol) (head), pl. dŷl (i** nŷl). Note: In the Etymologies, this word was derived from a root with initial nd- (NDOL), which would make the mutations different (i** nôl, pl. i** ndŷl). However, the later name Fanuidhol "Cloudyhead" apparently indicates that the lenited form of this d was later to be dh (whereas it would be n** if the former derivation had been maintained).
dôl
head
(i dhôl, construct dol) (hill), pl. dŷl (i nŷl). Note: In the Etymologies, this word was derived from a root with initial nd- (NDOL), which would make the mutations different (i nôl, pl. i ndŷl). However, the later name Fanuidhol "Cloudyhead" apparently indicates that the lenited form of this d was later to be dh (whereas it would be n if the former derivation had been maintained).****
amon
noun. hill, steep-sided mount
amon
hill
pl1. emyn n. hill, lump, clump, mass, often applied to (esp. isolated) mountains. Q. umbo(n). FAmon Amarth
dol
noun. head
dol
noun. hill or mountain
amon
hill
(pl. emyn) (steep-sided mount)
cîl
pass between hills
(i gîl, o chîl) (cleft, gorge), no distinct pl. form except with article (i chîl), coll. pl. cíliath. . A homophone means ”renewal”.
tund
hill
(i** dund, o thund, construct tun) (mound), pl. tynd (i** thynd), coll. pl. tunnath.
Sindarin name of a peak in the Misty Mountains translated “Cloudyhead”, itself a translation of Kh. Bundushathûr of the same meaning (LotR/283). This name is a combination of fanui “cloudy” and the lenited form of dol(l) “head, hill” (PE17/26, 36 173).
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien first wrote this name as N. Fanuiras “Horn of Cloud”, revised to N. Fanuidol (TI/174, 306) before settling on S. Fanuidhol.