Este

noun. Rest

Rest

estë

feminine name. Rest, Repose, Peace

The Valië of peace and healing (S/28), spouse of Irmo (Lórien). Her name is variously translated as “Rest” (SI/Estë, Ety/EZDĒ), “Repose” (WJ/403) and “Peace” (PE19/91). In Quenya, the word Estë is only used for the name of this Valië (WJ/404). A more ordinary word for “rest, repose, peace” is sérë (VT44/35, Ety/SED). Both the name and the word are derived from the same root √SED (Ety/SED, WJ/403). The name is derived from the primitive form ✶ezdē (PE19/091-2, WJ/403).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, Lórien had no wife (LT1/66). ᴹQ. Este first appeared in the initial drafts of the Annals of Beleriand (SM/263), and the derivation of her name first appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/SED).

Cognates

• T. Éde “Repose” ✧ PE19/092; WJI/Estë
• S. Îdh “Estë, (lit.) Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/092

Derivations

• ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403
  • √SED “rest” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ezdē > Este	[ezdē] > [estē] > [este]	✧ PE19/091
✶Ezdē > Este	[ezdē] > [estē] > [este]	✧ PE19/092
✶ezdē > Este	[ezdē] > [estē] > [este]	✧ WJ/403

Variations

• Este ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092 (Este); PE19/101; WJ/403; WJ/404

Estë

repose, rest

Estë fem. name "Repose, Rest" _(WJ:403, EZDĒ, SED), only used as name of a Valië (WJ:404)_

Este

noun. Peace

Peace, name of wife of Lórien

esto

pronoun. they (dual emphatic)

Este

Estë

Estë is a Quenya name meaning "rest". The same Root, EZDE, also yielded her Sindarin name, Îdh (pron. [iːð]) and the Nandorin Eord.

Estë

Rest

Estë is a Quenya name meaning "rest". The same Root, EZDE, also yielded her Sindarin name, Îdh (pron. ) and the Nandorin Eord.

ser-

rest

ser- vb. "rest" (1st pers. aorist serin "I rest"); pa.t. probably *sendë since the R of ser- was originally D (cf. stem SED; compare rer- pa.t. rendë from RED concerning the past tense)

Valatári

vala-queen

Valatári noun "Vala-queen" (BAL; this entry of the Etymologies states that Vala has no feminine form except this compound, but Silm gives Valië as a feminine form). The word Valatári is apparently also the unchanged plural form, so used in this quote: "The Valatári were Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Vana, Vaire, Este, Nessa, Uinen" (BAL; Tolkien later reclassified Uinen as a Maia, not a Valatári/Valië). Notice that the plural form of Valatar would apparently also be *Valatári.

erdë

repose

erdë (3) noun "repose" (marked by Tolkien with an "X", perhaps indicating that he considered dropping this form to eliminate homophones)(VT46:12). Compare sérë.

rainë

peace

rainë noun "peace" (VT44:34-35)

ser-

verb. rest,repose;stay, tarry, be at the moment

sérë

rest, repose, peace

sérë noun "rest, repose, peace" (SED, VT44:35); see under úyë concerning the sentence úyë sérë indo-ninya símen in Fíriel's Song

sívë

peace

sívë (2) noun "peace" (VT44:35)

sívë

noun. peace

Derivations

• √SIB “rest, quiet” ✧ VT44/35

Element in

• Q. ar mi cemen rainë i hínin “and on earth peace, good will toward men” ✧ VT44/35

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√SIB > síve	[sībe] > [sīβe] > [sīve]	✧ VT44/35

Variations

• síve ✧ VT44/35

îdh

feminine name. Estë, (lit.) Rest, Repose, Peace

Sindarin name for Q. Estë, it is simply îdh “rest” used as a name, a derivative of primitive ✶ezdē (PE19/92).

Conceptual Development: The name N. Îdh appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s, with the same derivation (Ety/EZDĒ). It was first written as (rejected) Ēdh, perhaps representing some uncertainty on the [[on|vocalization of [z] before voiced stops]] in Noldorin.

Cognates

• Q. Estë “Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/092

Derivations

• ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ PE19/092
  • √SED “rest” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403

Elements

Word	Gloss
îdh	“rest, repose, peace, tranquility”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶Ezdē > Íð	[ezdē] > [ezde] > [ēde] > [ēðe] > [īðe] > [īð]	✧ PE19/092

Variations

• Íð ✧ PE19/092 (Íð)

Ēd

noun. Rest

Dor. Rest

îdh

estë

îdh

rest

_(noun) _1) îdh (repose), no distinct pl. form even if there could be a pl. 2) post (i bost, o phost) (pause, halt, cessation, respite), pl. pyst (i physt),

îdh

rest

(repose), no distinct pl. form even if there could be a pl. 2) post (i bost, o phost) (pause, halt, cessation, respite), pl. pyst (i physt)

send

noun. (?) rest

senn

noun. (?) rest

îdh

noun. rest, repose

îdh

noun. peace

peace, tranquillity

sîdh

peace

sîdh (i hîdh), no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîdh) if there is any pl. form. 1) aeg (point, thorn). No distinct pl. form. (but aeglir can be used for a range of mountain peaks). Note: aeg is also used as adj. "sharp, pointed, piercing". 2) mîn (i vîn), no distinct pl. form except with article (i mîn), coll. pl. míniath. Note: homophones include the numeral ”one” and the adjective ”isolated, first, towering”. 3) egnas (sharp point; literally "thorn-point"), pl. egnais, coll. pl. egnassath.

sîdh

peace

(i hîdh), no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîdh) if there is any pl. form.

îdh

repose

îdh (rest), no distinct pl. form even if there could be a pl.

îdh

repose

(rest), no distinct pl. form even if there could be a pl.

Erde

noun. Rest

Rest

éde

feminine name. Repose

Changes

• Erde → Este ✧ PE19/092

Cognates

• Q. Estë “Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/092; WJI/Estë

Derivations

• ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ PE19/092; WJ/403
  • √SED “rest” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403

Variations

• Este ✧ PE19/092 (Este)
• Erde ✧ PE19/092 (Erde)
• Ēde ✧ WJ/403; WJ/404
• Ēdë ✧ WJI/Estë

sed

root. rest

This root first appeared as ᴹ√SED “rest” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. sére “rest, repose, peace” and N. sîdh “peace”, along with the name of the Valië ᴹQ. Este < ᴹ✶ezdē (Ety/SED). The root √SED “rest” along with the etymology of Este reappeared in both the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) from the 1930s (PE19/45) and the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the early 1950s (PE19/92), and again in revisions to the OP2 page annotated in green ink and thus probably from 1970 (PE19/91 and note #110).

The root √SED “rest” was mentioned a couple times in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s as the basis for the verb ᴹQ. ser- “rest, repose” (PE22/102, 125) and again (unglossed) in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 as the basis for Este (WJ/403). In the sense “peace” this root had some competition, however. In the first version of the Gloria in Excelsis Deo prayer from the mid-1960s, Tolkien used Q. sívë for “peace”, revised to Q. sérë in the second version and then Q. rainë (VT44/32). The word Q. sívë “peace” reappeared in unpublished etymological notes from 1969 derived from the root √SIB “rest, quiet” (VT44/35).

Neo-Eldarin: For purpose of Neo-Eldarin, I would use √SED for the act of resting and so Q. sérë “peace” = “restfulness (personal peace)”, and would use √SIB = “quiet, ✱stillness, absence of activity” and so Q. sívë “peace” = “absence of activity or violence (environmental peace)”. I would use Q. rainë as “good will” in connection to √RAY “smile”.

Derivatives

• ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403
  • Q. Estë “Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403
  • S. Îdh “Estë, (lit.) Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/092
  • S. îdh “rest, repose, peace, tranquility” ✧ PE19/091; WJ/403
  • T. Éde “Repose” ✧ PE19/092; WJ/403
• ✶sedu- “to go to rest”
• ᴺQ. sérë “peace; [ᴹQ.] rest, repose”
• Q. sérë “*peace”
• ᴺQ. sesta- “to set, (lit.) to make rest (on)”
• ᴺS. sedh- “to rest”
• S. send “?rest”
• ᴺS. sesta- “to set, (lit.) to make rest (on)”

ezdē

noun. rest

Derivations

• √SED “rest” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403

Derivatives

• Q. Estë “Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/091; PE19/092; WJ/403
• S. Îdh “Estë, (lit.) Rest, Repose, Peace” ✧ PE19/092
• S. îdh “rest, repose, peace, tranquility” ✧ PE19/091; WJ/403
• T. Éde “Repose” ✧ PE19/092; WJ/403

Variations

• Ezdē ✧ PE19/092 (Ezdē)
• Ezdē-l ✧ PE21/83

îdh

feminine name. Rest

Changes

• Ēdh → Īdh ✧ Ety/EZDĒ

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Este “rest” ✧ Ety/EZDĒ

Derivations

• On. Īde “rest” ✧ Ety/EZDĒ; EtyAC/EZDĒ
  • ᴹ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ Ety/EZDĒ; Ety/SED
  • ᴹ√SED “rest” ✧ PE19/045
• ᴹ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ PE19/045
  • ᴹ√SED “rest” ✧ PE19/045

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
On. Īde > Īdh	[īde] > [īðe] > [īð]	✧ Ety/EZDĒ
On. Ēde > Ēdh	[ēde] > [ēðe] > [ēð]	✧ EtyAC/EZDĒ
ᴹ✶Ezdē > ezd > ēd > Īð	[ezdē] > [ezde] > [eide] > [īde] > [īðe] > [īð]	✧ PE19/045

Variations

• Īdh ✧ Ety/EZDĒ
• Idh ✧ EtyAC/EZDĒ
• Ēdh ✧ EtyAC/EZDĒ (Ēdh)
• Īð ✧ PE19/045

Ídh

noun. Rest

Rest

Eord

noun. Rest

sîdh

noun. peace

Cognates

• ᴹQ. sére “rest, repose, peace” ✧ Ety/SED

Derivations

• ᴹ√SED “rest” ✧ Ety/SED

Element in

• ᴺS. sídheb “peaceful, full of peace”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√SED > sîdh	[sēde] > [sīde] > [sīðe] > [sīð]	✧ Ety/SED

sîdh

noun. peace