adv. long. Cuio i Pheriain anann 'May the Halflings live long'.
Sindarin
anna-
verb. to give, †add to
Cognates
- Q. anta- “to give, present; †to add to” ✧ PE17/093; PE17/147
Derivations
- √NA/ANA “to, towards; at side of, alongside, besides; moreover, in addition, plus” ✧ PE17/091; PE17/146
- ✶antā- “to give, cause a thing/person to go to an object, send, to give, cause a thing/person to go to an object, send, [ᴹ✶] present” ✧ PE17/093
- √NA/ANA “to, towards; at side of, alongside, besides; moreover, in addition, plus” ✧ PE17/091; PE22/163
Element in
- ᴺS. anneth “(act of) giving”
- S. anno ammen sír i mbas ilaurui vín “give us this day our daily bread” ✧ VT44/27
- ᴺS. dananna- “to give back, return [something]”
- ᴺS. edanna- “to publish, (lit.) out-give”
- ᴺS. istanna- “to teach, lecture, explain, (lit.) give knowledge”
- S. ón annin “*he gave (it) to me” ✧ PE17/147
- S. ónen i-Estel Edain “I gave Hope to the Dúnedain” ✧ LotR/1061; PE17/117
- S. oneth “*giving”
- S. suilanna- “to greet, *give greeting”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √ANA > antha- > anha- [anta-] > [antʰa-] > [anθa-] > [anna-] ✧ PE17/091 ✶ānē- > ōn- [ānē] > [āne] > [ǭne] > [ōne] > [ōn] ✧ PE17/093 √ANA/NĀ > anta- [anta-] > [antʰa-] > [anθa-] > [anta-] ✧ PE17/146 Variations
- anha- ✧ PE17/093
- anta- ✧ PE17/147
anha-
verb. to give
ann
adjective. long
ann
adjective. long
anno
verb. give!
anann
adverb. long, for a long time
anann
adverb. long
and
adjective. long
and
adjective. long
adj. long. i·arben na megil and 'The Knight of the Long Sword'. >> ann
and
adjective. long
Cognates
- Q. anda “long, far” ✧ PE17/040; PE17/090
Derivations
Element in
- S. Anach “?Long Neck”
- S. anann “(for) long”
- S. andaith “long-mark”
- S. Andram “Long Wall” ✧ SA/an(d)
- S. Andras “Long Cape”
- S. Andrast “Long Cape”
- S. Angast “Long Cape” ✧ VT42/28
- S. Andrath “Long Climb”
- S. andreth “long-suffering, patience”
- S. Androth “*Long Cave”
- S. Anduin “Great River, (lit.) Long River” ✧ PE17/012; PE17/040; RC/765; SA/an(d)
- S. Anfalas “Langstrand, (lit.) Long Beach” ✧ SA/an(d)
- S. Anfang “Longbeard”
- S. angerthas “runic alphabetic, (lit.) long rune-rows” ✧ SA/an(d)
- ᴺS. annas “length”
- S. Ann-thennath “*Long-shorts”
- S. Cair Andros “Ship of Long Foam” ✧ SA/an(d)
- S. i arben na megil and “Knight of the Long Sword” ✧ PE17/147
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶andā > ann- [andā] > [anda] > [and] > [ann] ✧ PE17/090 Variations
- ann ✧ PE17/012; PE17/040; PE17/121
- ann- ✧ PE17/090
- an(d) ✧ SA/an(d)
- an(n)- ✧ VT42/28
aned
give
anna-
verb. to thank
A neologism for “to thank” coined by Elaran in 2018, more accurately “to give thanks”, derived from the root √HAN “enrich, honour”, the (hypothetical) basis for Q. hanta- “to thank” (also hypothetical). It can be distinguished from S. anna- “to give” by the fact that this verb is intransitive, whereas “give” is transitive. Thus anna- without a direct object means “give thanks”, whereas anna- with a direct object means “give”. The common way to say “thank you” would be annon allen “I give thanks to you” or annas annin “[he/she] thanked me” (anna- with intransitive past, lit. “gave thanks to”), with the object of the “thanks” in the dative.
For further information on this verb and phrase, see the How to Thank in Sindarin on Parf Edhellen.
Alternate Etymologies: The Sindarin verb for “to thank” is exceptionally controversial. For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies, David Salo coined the word ᴺS. hanna- “to thank” based on Q. hanta-, with hannon le becoming the common (Neo) Sindarin of saying “thanks, (lit.) I thank you”. However, Carl Hostetter criticized this word in his 2006 article Elvish as She Is Spoke, pointing that the likeliest basis for Q. hanta- was the root √HAN, but in Sindarin the initial h would be lost resulting in ✱anna- which could not be used since it conflicts with anna- “to give”.
In 2018, Elaran proposed annon allen as a new phrase for “I thank you”, eventually developing the intransitive/transitive markers to distinguish it from anna- “give”. In 2019, I made a counter proposal of in my own article In Defense of Hannon Le, arguing that ✱hanna- “to thank” might have entered Sindarin as a loan word from Quenya and thus still be usable. Ultimately, though, the community we both spend time in (the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server) settled on using annon allen. Since I firmly believe that languages should be defined by their community of speakers, and annon allen has become the dominant phrase, I eventually caved and in 2022 added anna- “to give thanks” to Eldamo, deprecating David Salo’s older neologism ᴺS. hanna-.
Cognates
- ᴺQ. hanta- “to thank, give thanks”
Derivations
- √HAN “add to, increase, enhance, enrich, honour (especially by gift); give”
hanna-
verb. to thank
Cognates
- ᴺQ. hanta- “to thank, give thanks”
Element in
- ᴺS. hannad “thanks”
anna
give
anna- (i anna, in annar), pa.t. ?aun (with endings one-)
anna
give
(i anna, in annar), pa.t. ?aun (with endings one-)
annabon
long-snouted one
pl. ennebyn, coll. pl. annabonnath. (Archaic form andabon.)
anann
long
(adverb, = "for a long time") anann
anann
long
anfang
longbeard
pl. Enfeng, coll. pl. Anfangrim (WJ:10, 108, 205)
and
long
(adjective) and (pl. aind),
and
long
(pl. aind)
andaith
long mark
(no distinct pl. form). The word refers to an accent-like mark used to indicate long vowels in Tengwar modes that employ separate vowel letters, like the Mode of Beleriand.
taen
thin
(lenited daen, no distinct pl. form). Note: a homophone means ”height, summit of high mountain”.
angerthas
long rune-row
(and + certhas).
ennin
long year
. No distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. enniniath.
brûn
long endured/established/in use
(old), lenited vrûn, pl. bruin;
adj. long. Rare except in old names (e.g. Anduin). >> and