_pref. _together. Q. o-.
Sindarin
gwa-
prefix. together (only in old compounds, the living form is go-)
gwa-
prefix. together, co-, com-
Element in
- ᴺS. gwabeth “sentence, phrase”
go-
prefix. *away
Derivations
- ✶wā- “*away” ✧ WJ/364
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶wā > gwǭ > go [wā-] > [wǭ-] > [gwǭ-] > [gwau-] > [gwo-] > [go-] ✧ WJ/364 Variations
- go ✧ WJ/364
go-
together
go-
prefix. together, co-, com-
Cognates
- Q. o- “together” ✧ PE17/016; PE17/191; PE17/191; WJ/367
Derivations
Element in
- S. genedia- “to reckon”
- S. gobel “village, town (enclosure), (walled) village, town (enclosure); [N.] walled house, *manor”
- ᴺS. gobem “mouth”
- ᴺS. gobeth “dictionary”
- ᴺS. goianna- “to join with, add to”
- ᴺS. golain “connection, relation, context, (lit.) threadage”
- ᴺS. golof “consonant”
- S. goloth “inflorescence, *collection of flowers”
- ᴺS. gothiol “similar”
- S. govan- “to meet, come to same place” ✧ PE17/016
- ᴺS. gwachon “(sworn) brother, associate”
- ᴺS. gwalir “rhyme, rime (the two actual rhyming words), rhyming poem”
- ᴺS. gwanos “family, birth, heredity, *lineage”
- S. gwanunig “twin” ✧ WJ/367; WJ/367
- ᴺS. gwaren “[nuclear] family”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √WĂ/WO > go [wo-] > [gwo-] > [go-] ✧ PE17/016 √WO/WONO > go´ [wo-] > [gwo-] > [go-] ✧ PE17/191 √WO/WONO > gwa´ [wó-] > [wá-] > [gwá-] ✧ PE17/191 √WO > gwa- [wó-] > [wá-] > [gwá-] ✧ WJ/367 ✶wo > gwo > go- [wo-] > [gwo-] > [go-] ✧ WJ/368 Variations
- go ✧ PE17/016
- go´ ✧ PE17/191 (go´)
- gwa´ ✧ PE17/191 (gwa´)
- gwa- ✧ WJ/367
go
together
(prefix) go-, gwa- (+ lenition) (co-, com-).
go
together
gwa- (+ lenition) (co-, com-).
godref
through together
(AI:92)
A hypothetical element in the name Gódhel, a late Sindarin replacement for Ódhel “Elf who left for Aman”, but Tolkien said “it seems most probable that it took g- from the old clan-name Golodh, pl. Goelydh, which it practically replaced” (WJ/364). Thus ✱go- “away” < ✶wā- is probably a false etymology.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would use gwa- as the prefix for “away”, as in gwahae “✱far away”.