kôr

place name. Kôr

Name of the hill where Túna, the city of the Elves in Valinor, was located in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/45, LR/222). In The Etymologies it was derived from the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, ᴱQ. Kôr was the name of the city as well as the hill.

Changes

• Kôr → Túna ✧ MR/180
• Côr → Kôr ✧ SMI/Côr
• Kôr → Tûn ✧ WJI/Tûn

Cognates

• N. Caur “Kôr” ✧ Ety/KOR; Ety/KOR

Derivations

• ᴹ√KOR “round” ✧ Ety/KOR
• ᴹ✶kǭro “Kôr” ✧ EtyAC/KOR
  • ᴹ√KOR “round” ✧ Ety/KOR

Element in

• ᴹQ. Ilkorin “Not of Kôr”
• ᴹQ. Alkorin
• ᴹQ. Kornoldorin “ancient language of the Noldor at Kôr”
• ᴹQ. Korolambe “Tongue of Kôr”
• ᴹQ. Korolóra “?Ilkorin”
• ᴹQ. Kortirion
• ᴹQ. Koreldarin

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√KOR > Kôr	[kōr]	✧ Ety/KOR
ᴹ✶koro > Kôr	[kōro] > [kōr]	✧ EtyAC/KOR

Variations

• Côr ✧ SMI/Côr