hwesta (1) noun "breeze, breath, puff of air" (SWES), also name of tengwa #12 (Appendix E, VT46:17); hwesta sindarinwa "Grey-elven hw", name of tengwa #34 (Appendix E).
Quenya
hwá
noun. violent wind
hwarwa
noun. violent wind
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √swā > hwá [swā] > [w̥ā] ✧ NM/237 ✶swa-swa > hwarwa [swaswa] > [w̥aswa] > [w̥azwa] > [w̥arwa] ✧ NM/237 Variations
- hwá ✧ NM/237
hwesta
breeze, breath, puff of air
hwesta
noun. breeze, breeze; [ᴹQ.] breath, puff of air
A noun in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings glossed “breeze”, the name of tengwa #12 [c] (LotR/1123).
Conceptual Development: ᴹQ. hwesta “breath, breeze, puff of air” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” (Ety/SWES).
Cognates
- ᴺS. hwest “puff, breath, breeze”
Derivations
- ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing”
Element in
- ᴺQ. hwestalauca “vapour”
- Q. hwesta sindarinwa “Grey-elven hw” ✧ LotR/1123
A word for “violent wind” in notes from the late 1950s with variants hwá and hwarwa, based on a strengthened form of the root √WĀ “blow”: ✶swa-swa (NM/237). I think the longer form hwarwa is preferable.