Qenya
hwinde
noun. eddy, whirlpool
Cognates
- N. chwinn “eddy” ✧ Ety/SWIN
Derivations
- ᴹ√SWIN “whirl, eddy” ✧ Ety/SWIN
Element in
- ᴺQ. hwinda “mad, crazy”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√SWIN > hwinde [swinde] > [w̥inde] ✧ Ety/SWIN
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “eddy, whirlpool” derived from the root ᴹ√SWIN “whirl, eddy” (Ety/SWIN) and the name of the tengwa o (EtyAC/SWES, SWIN). This tengwa also had the name hwinde “eddy” in The Feanorian Alphabet of the 1930s (PE22/22). In The Lord of the Rings Appendix E, it was called hwesta sindarinwa (LotR/1123).