A word for “skin” (or possibly “bark”) appearing only in the name S. Fladrif “Skinbark” (LotR/474).
Sindarin
gwanwen
proper name. Departed
Variations
- Gwanwel ✧ WJ/378; WJI/Gwanwen
gwanwen
adjective. departed, departed, *gone, lost [to time], past
Derivations
- √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out”
Element in
Variations
- Gwanwen ✧ WJ/378
flâd
noun. skin
flâd
noun. skin
Element in
- S. Fladrif “Skinbark” ✧ LotR/0474
Variations
- flad ✧ LotR/0474 (flad)
or
over
(adjectival prefix) or- (above, high)
or
over
(above, high)
past
adjective. shaking
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. KWATH “*shake”
Element in
- ᴺS. cevemphast “earth quake”
gwann
departed
(dead), lenited ’wann; pl. gwain
gwanwen
departed
1) (past participle) gwanwen (lenited wanwen; pl. gwenwin), also as noun: a ”departed” one, one of the Elves of Aman: Gwanwen (i **Wanwen), pl. Gwenwin (in Gwenwin) (WJ:378), 2) gwann (dead), lenited wann; pl. gwain**;
gwanwen
departed
(lenited ’wanwen; pl. gwenwin), also as noun: a ”departed” one, one of the Elves of Aman: Gwanwen (i ’Wanwen), pl. Gwenwin (in Gwenwin) (WJ:378)
gwenwi
noun. past, past tense
Cognates
- ᴹQ. vanwie “the past, past time”
Derivations
- ᴹ√WAN “depart, go away, disappear, vanish”
ia
ago
ia, io
ia
ago
io
mân
departed spirit
(i vân, construct man), pl. main (i main)
thar
over
(adverbial prefix) thar- (across, athwart, beyond)
thar
over
(across, athwart, beyond)
bannen
gone
#bannen (pl. bennin). Isolated from govannen ”met”, based on the assumption that this past participle includes a form of the verb #bad- ”go”.
bannen
adjective. gone
Elements
Word Gloss bad- “to tread, travel, to tread, [G.] travel”
bannen
gone
(pl. bennin). Isolated from govannen ”met”, based on the assumption that this past participle includes a form of the verb #bad- ”go”.
A term the Sindar used for the Elves who left Beleriand for Aman, derived from the same root as Q. vanwa: √WĀ/AWA (WJ/366, 378). Another variation was Gwanwel (WJ/378), perhaps incorporating †Ell “Elf”.