Early Quenya
aldeon
noun. avenue (of trees)
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
aldeon
noun. avenue (of trees)
A word appearing as ᴱQ. aldeon (aldeond-) “avenue of trees” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s based on ᴱQ. alda “tree” (QL/29). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was simply glossed “avenue”.
Neo-Quenya: Since alda “tree” remains in Quenya, I would retain ᴺQ. aldeon(d-) “avenue” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, perhaps with the second element being yondë “region”. Its original sense might have been “region of bordered by trees”, reused to describe a road lined with trees and from there becoming “avenue”.