Sindarin
-ion
suffix. -son
Cognates
- Q. -ion “-son, masculine patronymic” ✧ PE17/170
Derivations
Element in
- S. Erchirion
- S. Ereinion “Scion of Kings”
- S. Galathilion “White Tree”
- S. Hurinionath “Descendants of Húrin”
- S. Inglorion “*Son of Inglor”
- ᴺS. sion “grandson”
Elements
Word Gloss ion(n) “son, son, *boy” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶-(i)ŏn/-(ĭ)ondo > -(i)on [-iondō] > [-iondo] > [-iond] > [-ionn] > [-ion] ✧ PE17/170 Variations
- -(i)on ✧ PE17/170
-i
suffix. adjectival suffix
Derivations
- ✶-ya “adjectival suffix” ✧ VT42/10
Element in
- S. serni “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ VT42/10
The usual Sindarin patronymic suffix, meaning “son of” (PE17/170; Ety/YŌ), a suffixal form of ion(n) “son”. It was occasionally used for “descendants”, especially as a class plural, as in Hurinionath “Descendants of Húrin” (PM/202).
Conceptual Development: In Gnomish, the prefix G. go- or gon- (suffixal -iod, -ion, -ios) was initially used with the meaning “son of” as in Gon Indor “✱Son of Indor” (LT2/217), but in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s the prefix was revised to G. bo- or bon-, as in Tuor bo-Beleg, along with suffixal -von or -mon (GL/23, 40-41). Tolkien reintroduced suffixal N. -ion “son” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√YO(N) “son” (Ety/YŌ), and seems to have stuck with it thereafter.