Early Noldorin
tarn
noun. gate
Derivations
- ᴱ√TARA “*across”
Element in
- En. ordarn “gateless” ✧ PE13/156
- En. Ternin Awest ✧ PE13/153
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A word for “gate” appearing in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/153). G. tarn “gate” also appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/69), and it might have been derived from the early root ᴱ√TARA (QL/89). In Tolkien’s later writing he used S. annon for “gate” (LotR/307; PE17/45).