{ĕ}_ n. _water, lake. Q. nén. >> nîn
Sindarin
nen
noun. water; lake, pool; (lesser) river, water; lake, pool; (lesser) river, [ᴱN.] stream
Cognates
- Q. nén “water, water, [ᴱQ.] river” ✧ PE17/052; SA/nen
Derivations
Element in
- S. Arnen “Beside the Water”
- S. Bruinen “Loudwater” ✧ SA/nen
- S. Carnen “Redwater”
- S. dannen “ebb, lowtide”
- S. duinen “flood, high tide”
- S. Emyn Arnen “Hills of Arnen” ✧ SA/nen
- S. Harnen “*South Water”
- S. Lebennin “Five Rivers”
- S. Nen Cenedril “Mirrormere, (lit.) Lake Looking-glass”
- S. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening”
- S. Nen Girith “Shuddering Water” ✧ SA/nen
- S. Nen Hithoel “Mist-cool Water” ✧ RC/328; SA/nen
- S. Nen Lalaith “*Water of Laughter”
- S. Nenning “? Water” ✧ SA/nen
- S. Nenuial “Lake Evendim, (lit.) Water of Twilight” ✧ SA/nen
- S. Nîn-in-Eilph “Swanfleet, Waterlands of the Swans” ✧ NM/378
- S. Núrnen “Sad Water, Dead Water” ✧ SA/nen
- S. Ringnen “Chill-water” ✧ VT42/14
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √NEN > nĕn [nen] ✧ PE17/052 √nen > nen [nen] ✧ SA/nen Variations
- nĕn ✧ PE17/052; PE17/077
nen
noun. water (used of a lake, pool or lesser river)
nen
noun. waterland
nen
water
nên
water
nên (lake, pool, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn. FLOOD-WATER (or ”wash”) iôl (pl. ŷl) (RC:334, VT48:33).
nên
water
(lake, pool, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.
duin
noun. (long and large) river (having strong current)
lorn
noun. quiet water
lorn
noun. anchorage, harbour
rib-
verb. to flow like a (torrent ?)
The reading of the gloss is uncertain
sîr
noun. river
celon
river
(i gelon, o chelon), pl. celyn (pl. i chelyn)
duin
river
(long, large river with strong current) duin (i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin) (VT48:24)
duin
large river
(i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin), coll. pl. duinath (Names:179, PM:54); compare the river-name Anduin, ”long river”.
ethir
of a river
(estuary), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. ethiriath. Note: a homophone means "spy".
lind
river
”singer” may also be used of rivers (see
lorn
quiet water
(anchorage, haven, harbour), pl. lyrn (VT45:29).
rimma
flow like a torrent
(i rimma, idh rimmar)
siria
flow
(vb.) siria- (i hiria, i siriar).
siria
flow
(i hiria, i siriar).
sîr
river
1) (also = rill) sîr (i hîr, o sîr), in compounds sir- or -hir or -hír; no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîr), coll. pl. siriath. Note: sîr is also the adverb ”today”. 2) celon (i gelon, o chelon), pl. celyn (pl. i chelyn), 3) The word lind ”singer” may also be used of rivers (see . (WJ.309).
sîr
river
(i hîr, o sîr), in compounds sir- or -hir or -hír; no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîr), coll. pl. siriath. Note: sîr is also the adverb ”today”.
A noun for “water”, also regularly applied to bodies of water like lakes, pools and rivers, especially in names like S. Bruinen “Loudwater” (a river) and S. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” (an inland sea).
Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s where {nen >>} G. nenn “water; river” appeared (GL/60), a derivative of the early root ᴱ√NENE “flow” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Neni Erúmëar; QL/65). ᴱN. nen and nenn appeared in various Early Noldorin documents from the 1920s with glosses like “stream” (PE13/123), “water” (PE13/151), and “water, river” (PE13/164), but in this period Tolkien indicated the primitive form was ninda (PE13/123, 164). This seems to have been a transient idea, since in The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien gave N. nen “water” as a derivative of ᴹ√NEN (Ety/NEN), and this derivation appeared in Tolkien’s later writings as well (PE17/52).