Sindarin
paran
adjective. bare, naked; smooth, shaven
Cognates
- Q. parnë “bald, bare, naked” ✧ PE17/086
Derivations
Element in
- S. Dol Baran “*Bare Hill” ✧ PE17/086; PE17/171; RC/433
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √PAR > paran [parane] > [paran] ✧ PE17/086 ✶PARAN > Baran [parane] > [paran] ✧ PE17/171 Variations
- Paran ✧ RC/433
paran
adjective. smooth, shaven (often applied to hills without trees)
paran
adjective. naked
paran
smooth
1) paran (lenited baran; pl. perain) (shaven). Often applied to hills wihtout trees. (RC:433) 2)
paran
shaven
paran (lenited baran; pl. perain) (smooth). Often applied to hills wihtout trees. (RC:433)
hell
naked
1) hell (lenited chell; pl. hill), 2) lanc (pl. lainc). Note: homophones means ”neck, throat” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.
path
smooth
path (lenited bath; pl. paith)
lanc
noun. naked
lanc
adjective. naked
A word for “naked” in the name Amon Lanc “Naked Hill” (UT/280).
Element in
- S. Amon Lanc “Naked Hill” ✧ UT/280
Variations
- Lanc ✧ UT/280
parch
adjective. naked
_ adj. _naked, of persons. Q. parka.
hell
naked
(lenited chell; pl. hill)
lanc
naked
(pl. lainc). Note: homophones means ”neck, throat” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.
A word for “bare, naked” appearing in notes from the late 1950s and early 1960s to explain the name Dol Baran. This name was originally intended to be “✱Brown Hill” with the second element N. baran “brown”; see N. Dolbaran from The Etymologies of the 1930s, which had baran as its second element (Ety/BARÁN). This meaning survived until Tolkien was working on the index to The Lord of the Rings (RC/433), but there he recognized this was problematic because the adjective baran should be mutated to varan. To resolve this quandary, Tolkien coined paran from the root √PAR “peel”, and this new adjective was variously glossed “smooth, shaven” (RC/433), “bare” (PE17/86) or “bare, naked” (PE17/171).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had some similar “bare” words: G. falt “bare” (GL/33) and fôl “empty, bare — leafless, esp. of trees” (GL/35), both based on the early root ᴱ√FALA “bare, nude” (QL/37).