(pl. feryth) possibly refers to a group of hunters.
Sindarin
faroth
noun. *hunting
Derivations
- √SPAR “hunt, hunt, [ᴹ√] pursue”
Element in
- S. Taur-en-Faroth “*Forest of the Hunting” ✧ SA/faroth
Elements
Word Gloss fara- “to hunt” -th “abstract noun” Variations
- Faroth ✧ UTI/Faroth
faroth
noun. (?) hunter, (?) group of hunters
faroth
hunters
faroth
group of hunters
(pl. feryth)
faron
hunter
(pl. feryn, coll. pl. faronnath, but the following attested form may be used instead):
feredir
hunter
1) feredir, (coll.) pl. faradrim; 2) faron (pl. feryn, coll. pl. faronnath, but the following attested form may be used instead):
gland
boundary
1) gland (i **land, construct glan), pl. glaind (i glaind), coll. pl. glannath, 2) lest (girdle, fence), pl. list**; 3)
glan(n)
noun. boundary
Cognates
- Q. landa “boundary” ✧ VT42/08
Derivations
- √(G)LAN “rim, edge, border, boundary” ✧ VT42/08
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √(G)LAN > glan [glanda] > [gland] > [glann] ✧ VT42/08 √(G)LAN > gland > glann [glanda] > [gland] > [glann] ✧ VT42/08 Variations
- glan ✧ VT42/08
- glann ✧ VT42/08
gland
noun. boundary
glann
noun. boundary
taeg
noun. boundary, limit, boundary line
feredir
hunter
(coll.) pl. faradrim
gland
boundary
(i ’land, construct glan), pl. glaind (i glaind), coll. pl. glannath
lest
boundary
(girdle, fence), pl. list
taeg
boundary, boundary line
(i daeg, o thaeg) (limit), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thaeg)
An element in the name S. Taur-en-Faroth (S/168), untranslated in Tolkien’s later writings, though this location was described as the Hills of the Hunters in the Lays of Beleriand of the 1920s (LB/61). In The Etymologies of the 1930s the name was given as N. Taur-na-Faras, where N. faras was a noun for “hunting” under the root ᴹ√SPAR “hunt, pursue” (Ety/SPAR). It seems likely that S. faroth also means “hunting”, as an abstract noun form of the verb [N.] fara- “to hunt”.
Conceptual Development: In the first map of The Silmarillion, the Elvish name for “The Hills of the Hunters” was N. Duil Rewinion (SM/225). The word N. rewinion “of the hunters” seems to be a genitive plural, perhaps connected to N. rhui(w) “hunt, hunting” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/ROY¹).