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Qenya 

mandos

noun. doomsman, judge

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶mbandō “doomsman, judge” ✧ EtyAC/MBAD
    • ᴹ√(M)BAD “duress, prison, doom, hell; *judge” ✧ EtyAC/MBAD

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Kalamando “Light Mando” ✧ EtyAC/MBAD (Kalamando)
  • ᴹQ. Morimando “Dark Mando” ✧ EtyAC/MBAD (Morimando)

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶mbandō > mandos[mbandos] > [mandos]✧ EtyAC/MBAD

mandos

masculine name. (Dread) Imprisoner

Cognates

  • N. Bannos “Mandos, Dread Imprisoner” ✧ Ety/MBAD

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
manda“prison, *duress”
osse“terror”

Variations

  • Mando/Mand-os ✧ Ety/MBAD
  • Mandosse ✧ Ety/MBAD
Qenya [Ety/GOS; Ety/MANAD; Ety/MBAD; EtyAC/MAN; EtyAC/MBAD; LRI/Mandos; RSI/Mandos; SDI2/Mandos; SMI/Mandos] Group: Eldamo. Published by

morimando

masculine name. Dark Mando

A name for Mandos appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/MBAD, MOR), a compound of more “dark” and Mandos.

Elements

WordGloss
more“black, dark”
Mandos“(Dread) Imprisoner”
Qenya [Ety/MBAD; Ety/MOR; EtyAC/MBAD] Group: Eldamo. Published by