andúna

western

andúna adj. "western" (PE17:18)

andúna

adjective. western

Elements

Word	Gloss
andúnë	“sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west”
-a	“adjectival suffix”

númenya

western

númenya adj. "western" (NDŪ)

núna

western

núna adj. "western" (PE17:18), compare the element #nún- "west(ern)" in certain compounds, such as Núnatani and Nunduinë, q.v. (in the latter word, ú is apparently shortened as u before a consonant cluster). Compare númen.

núna

adjective. western

Element in

• Q. Núnatani “Western Men” ✧ PE17/018
• Q. Nunduinë “*West River”
• S. Núneth

númëa

in the west

númëa adj. "in the West" (actually an adjective *"western", in Tolkien's later Quenya also númenya)(LT1:263)

númenyaron

of the lords [valar] of the west

númenyaron inflected adj. used as noun?, a word occurring in a phrase from an earlier version of Fíriel's Song, Valion númenyaron, "of the Lords [Valar] of the West". But númenyaron cannot simply mean "of the West"; it seems to be the plural genitive of númenya "western", hence literally *"of the western (things, persons, realms)" or "of the Westerners".

annui

adjective. western

annui

adjective. west[ern]

Element in

• S. aran Gondor ar Arnor ar Hîr i Mbair Annui “king of Gondor and Arnor and Lord of the Westlands” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129

Variations

• Annui ✧ AotM/062; SD/129

annui

western

annui. No distinct pl. form.

annui

western

. No distinct pl. form.

anadûni

adjective. western

An adjective translated “western” formed from the noun adûni “the West” which was in turn formed from the adjective adûn “west”; the initial an- was the genitival prefix (SD/435). This adjective anadûni was in turn femininized to produce the place name Anadûnê “Westeresse, Númenor”.

Element in

• Ad. Anadûnê “Westernesse” ✧ SD/426

Variations

• anadūni ✧ SD/426; SD/435

dúven

noun. *sunken, western

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing under the root ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” with a hard-to-read gloss (Ety/NDŪ). Superficially, it seems to be a cognate of ᴹQ. númen “western”, but Christopher Tolkien read the gloss as “(?southern)”, though he marked this reading as uncertain. In a discussion on the Lambengolmor mailing list from 2005, Patrick Wynne indicated that the D was capitalized, and the gloss might actually be “✱sunken”, so perhaps being another name for sunken Númenor, based on a later iteration of ᴱN. nuv-/G. num- “sink”.

Cognates

• ᴹQ. númen “west” ✧ Ety/NDŪ

Derivations

• ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” ✧ Ety/NDŪ

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√NDŪ > dúven	[ndūmena] > [dūmena] > [dūmen] > [dūven]	✧ Ety/NDŪ
ᴹ√NDŪ > dúvin	[ndūmeni] > [dūmeni] > [dūmini] > [dūmin] > [dūvin]	✧ Ety/NDŪ