Ancalagon the Black
#2395
how do you pronounce gwaew?
gwaew
noun. storm; blow
Derivations
Cognates
- Q. vangwë “storm; blow, storm, *gale; blow” ✧ PE17/034
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶wagmē > gwaew [wagmē] > [wagme] > [gwagme] > [gwaɣme] > [gwaime] > [gwaim] > [gwaem] > [gwaev] > [gwaew] ✧ NM/237 ✶wagme > gwaew [wagme] > [gwagme] > [gwaɣme] > [gwaime] > [gwaim] > [gwaem] > [gwaev] > [gwaew] ✧ PE17/034
/gwaɛ̯w/ in IPA, but that’s probably not going to help you much. Check out this pronunciation guide. You can e. g. combine the ending -aew like in examples caew, raew with the initial gw- in gweith.
A Sindarin word in notes from around 1957, derived from primitive ✶wagmē, the equivalent of Q. vangwë “storm” (NM/237). It is not entirely clear whether Tolkien intended the Sindarin word to have the same meaning, as elsewhere gwaew was typically glossed “wind”. But in the same paragraph, gwae also appeared (likewise unglossed), which is the more usual Sindarin word for “wind”, so I think gwaew = “storm” is a reasonable assumption. The same form and derivation of gwaew < ✶wagme appeared in Quenya Notes also from 1957, but there its Quenya equivalent (also vangwe) was glossed “blow”.