pan

root. arrange, set in order, arrange, set in order; [ᴹ√] place, set, fix in place (especially of wood)

Tolkien introduced this root early and it retained more or less the same meaning throughout his life. It first appeared as ᴱ√PANA “arrange” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. pano “series, course, plan, arrangement” and ᴱQ. panya- “plan, arrange, intend, mean” (QL/72). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. pan “arrangement, settlement; place, spot” and G. panta- “set, put, place, arrange, settle” (GL/63).

In The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared as ᴹ√PAN “place, set, fix in place (especially of wood)”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. panya-/N. penia- “fix, set”, ᴹQ. pano “piece of shaped wood”, and N. pân “plank, fixed board (especially in a floor)” (Ety/PAN). √PAN appeared unglossed in the second version of the Tengwesta Qenderinwa from around 1950 (TQ2: PE18/89) and the root √PAN “arrange, set in order” was mentioned in passing in etymological notes from the late 1960s (PE17/108).

Derivatives

• ✶panda ✧ PE18/089
• Q. pan- “*to arrange, set in order”
• ᴺQ. panin “definite, planned, concerted, deliberate, prepense, meant”
• ᴺQ. panna “arrangement, grouping; *plan, course; book”
• ᴺQ. panwë “arrangement, plan; structure, ordering; (musical) theme”
• ᴺS. pan “arrangement, settlement, *grouping; place, spot”
• ᴺS. pan- “to arrange, order, settle; to set, put, place; to write a book”
• ᴺS. pant “money”
• ᴺS. panu “arrangement, plan; structure, ordering; (musical) theme”

Element in

• ᴺQ. sampan- “to combine”
• Q. sampanë “combination”

nom Reconstructed

root. place

A hypothetical root serving as the basis for Q. nómë “place”.

Derivatives

• Q. nómë “place”