Early Quenya
nan
noun. woodland, *land
Cognates
- G. nand “field acre”
Derivations
- ᴱ√NAÐA “*plain” ✧ LT1A/Nandini; QL/064
Element in
- Eq. Hisinan “Land of Twilight”
- Eq. nandin “dryad” ✧ LT1A/Nandini; QL/064
- Eq. Noldórinan
- Eq. Tasarinan “Land of Willows”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√NAŘA > nan [nanð] > [nand] > [nan] ✧ QL/064 Variations
- nan(d) ✧ LT1A/Nandini
tavas
noun. woodland
Derivations
- ᴱ√TAVA “beam” ✧ LT1A/Tavari; QL/090
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√TAVA > tavas [taβast] > [taβas] > [tavas] ✧ QL/090 Variations
- tavasta ✧ QL/090
tavasta
noun. woodland
A noun given as ᴱQ. tavas (tavast-) “woodland” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with longer variant tavasta, derived from the root ᴱ√TAVA “beam” (QL/90).
Neo-Quenya: I think ᴺQ. tavas remains viable for purposes of Neo-Quenya as a derivative of √TAW “wood”.