húro

storm

húro noun "storm" (MC:214; this is "Qenya")

rimpa

rushing, flying

rimpa adj.? noun? "rushing, flying" (RIP; the word is more likely an adjective)

alagos

storm of wind

(pl. elegys, coll. pl. alagossath)

alagos

storm of wind

alagos (pl. elegys, coll. pl. alagossath)

alagos

storm of wind

alagos (pl. elegys, coll. pl. alagossath).

alag

rushing

(impetuous), pl. elaig; also alagon (pl. elegyn)

ascar

rushing

(impetuous, violent), pl. escair. Also spelt asgar (pl. esgair).

gwaew

storm

1) gwaew (i **waew) (wind), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwaew**), 2)

gwaew

storm

(i ’waew) (wind), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwaew)

rimp

rushing

(adj.) 1) rimp (flying), no distinct pl. form; 2) alag (impetuous), pl. elaig; also alagon (pl. elegyn); 3) ascar (impetuous, violent), pl. escair. Also spelt asgar (pl. esgair).

rimp

rushing

(flying), no distinct pl. form

alak

root. rushing, rushing, [ᴹ√] swift

A root whose most notable derivatives are Q. alqua, S. alph “swan”. The earliest iteration of this root was ᴱ√ḶKḶ from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/30); the other derivatives of this root from this period have to do with “appearance” such as ᴱQ. ilk- “to seem” (QL/42). By The Etymologies of the 1930s this root took on its later form, ᴹ√ALAK and had the gloss “rushing” with other derivatives like ᴹQ. alako “rush, rushing flight, wild wind”, N. alag “rushing, impetuous” and N. alagos “storm (of wind)” (Ety/ÁLAK). It was also an element in the name of S./N. Ancalagon “Biting Storm”. Given the continued appearance of this name of The Silmarillion (S/252), the 1930s meaning of this root may have survived, but it is hard to be certain since the name was only properly translated in the 1930s.

The 1930s root also had an unaugmented variant ᴹ√LAK with derivatives ᴹQ. (a)larka, N. lhagr “swift, rapid” (Ety/LAK²). Whether this unaugmented variant remained valid is unclear, but there is nothing in Tolkien’s later writing contradicting it either.

Derivatives

• ✶alkwā “swan” ✧ PE18/100
  • Q. alqua “swan” ✧ NM/378; PE18/100; UT/265; VT42/07
  • S. alph “swan” ✧ NM/378; VT42/07
  • At. alpa “swan” ✧ VT42/07
  • T. alpa “swan” ✧ UT/265
  • S. alph “swan” ✧ UT/265
• Q. alqua “swan” ✧ SA/alqua
• S. alph “swan” ✧ SA/alqua

Element in

• S. Ancalagon “Biting-Storm” ✧ SA/alqua

Variations

• alak- ✧ SA/alqua

wagmē

noun. storm

Derivations

• √WĀ “blow; noise of wind, echoic representation of sound of wind” ✧ NM/237
• √WAY “blow (of wind), be disturbed” ✧ PE17/034

Derivatives

• Q. vangwë “storm; blow, storm, *gale; blow” ✧ NM/237; PE17/034
• S. gwaew “storm; blow” ✧ NM/237; PE17/034

Variations

• wagme ✧ PE17/034

alagon

noun. storm

alagos

noun. storm of wind

alagos

noun. storm (of wind)

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “storm of wind”, an elaboration of N. alag “rushing” so perhaps “✱(lit.) rushing (of winds)” (Ety/ÁLAK). A similar (masculinized?) form appeared in the name N. Ancalagon “Biting-Storm” (Ety/NAK). Tolkien continued to use this name in later writings, but it was untranslated.

Derivations

• ᴹ√(A)LAK “swift, rushing” ✧ Ety/ÁNAK; Ety/NAK

Element in

• S. Ancalagon “Biting-Storm”
• N. Ancalagon “Biting-Storm” ✧ Ety/ÁLAK; Ety/ÁNAK; Ety/NAK

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√ÁLAK > alagon	[alakosse] > [alakoss] > [alagoss] > [alagos]	✧ Ety/NAK

Variations

• alagon ✧ Ety/ÁNAK; Ety/NAK

alag

adjective. rushing, impetuous