(baur) _ n. _fist. Q. quáre. >> Celebrimbor
Sindarin
paur
noun. fist, closed hand
Cognates
- Q. quár(ë) “fist, closed hand” ✧ PE17/042; PM/318; SA/celeb; VT47/08
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶kwārē > paur [kwārē] > [pārē] > [pāre] > [pǭre] > [paure] > [paur] ✧ PE17/042 ✶kwāra > paur [kwāra] > [kwār] > [pār] > [pǭr] > [paur] ✧ PM/318
paur
noun. fist (often used to mean "hand", its chief use was in reference of the tighly closed hand, as in using an implement or a craft-tool, rather than to the fist used in punching)
paur
fist
paur
tightly closed hand
paur (i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (fist), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath.
paur
tightly closed hand
paur (i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (fist), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath.
paur
tightly closed hand
paur (i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (fist), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath
paur
tightly closed hand
(i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (fist), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath.
paur
fist
(i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (tightly closed hand), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath.
dond
noun. fist
A word for “fist” appearing as dond or donn only in draft notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s derived from primitive ✶dond(a) (VT47/23 note #25). A more usual word for “fist” is S. paur.
Cognates
- T. donda “fist” ✧ VT47/23
Derivations
- ✶dond(a) “fist” ✧ VT47/23
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶dond(a) > dond [donda] > [dond] ✧ VT47/23 Variations
- donn ✧ VT47/23
dond
fist
1) dond (i dhond; construct don) (hand), pl. dynd (i nynd), coll. pl. donnath (VT47:23). 2) paur (i baur, o phaur, also -bor in compounds) (tightly closed hand), pl. poer (i phoer), coll. pl. porath. or
hollen
closed
(passive participle) hollen; see CLOSE.
tafnen
closed
(adj.) #tafnen (stopped, blocked), lenited #dafnen; pl. tefnin (WR:341, isolated from uidavnen, with f rather than v in normalized orthography);
dond
noun. fist, hand (especially in punching)
donn
noun. fist, hand (especially in punching)
donn
noun. fist
hollen
noun. closed
tafnen
adjective. closed, blocked, stopped
Orthography normalized to tafnen, as in lefnui
uidafnen
adjective. ever-closed
Normalized to uidafnen, as in lefnui
dond
fist
(i dhond; construct don) (hand), pl. dynd (i nynd), coll. pl. donnath (VT47:23).
tafnen
closed
(stopped, blocked), lenited #dafnen; pl. tefnin *(WR:341, isolated from uidavnen, with f rather than v in normalized orthography)*;
uidafnen
ever-closed
(WJ:341, where the spelling ”uidavnen” is used), pl. uidefnin****
The Sindarin word for a “fist” or a “closed hand” (PE17/42; PM/179), derived from either ✶kwārē or ✶kwāră (PE17/42; VT47/8) with the usual sound changes of ancient kw to p and ā to au. The word paur is most notable as the element -bor in the name Celebrimbor “Silver-fist”, with the usual soft-mutation of p to b and the change of au to o in polysyllables. In 1968 notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals Tolkien specified that “its chief use was in reference to the tightly closed hand as in using an implement or a craft-tool rather than to the ‘fist’ as used in punching” (VT47/8). For a “punching fist” the word [N.] drambor is more likely to be used.
Conceptual Development: N. paur “fist” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWAR, neither of which was deleted (Ety/KWAR). In the first version of this root, the form was N. par “hand” (EtyAC/KWAR).