Qenya
nornea
adjective. *of oak
Derivations
- ᴹ√DORON “oak” ✧ Ety/DÓRON
Element in
- ᴹQ. lindornea “having many oaks” ✧ Ety/DÓRON
Elements
Word Gloss norno “oak” -a “adjectival suffix” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DÓRON > dornea [dornea] > [nornea] ✧ Ety/DÓRON
An adjectival form of ᴹQ. norno appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as an element in ᴹQ. lindornea “having many oak-trees” (Ety/DÓRON). Here the ancient initial d- was preserved in the compound, but would have become n- as an independent word.
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. nornea “of oak” also appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as an adjectival form of ᴱQ. norne “oak-tree” (QL/67).