belegaer
place name. Great Sea
Elements
Word Gloss beleg “great, mighty; large, big, great, mighty; large, big, [ᴱN.] huge” gaear “sea” Variations
- belegaer ✧ PE17/149
gaiar
noun. Great Sea
Cognates
- Q. ëar “sea, great sea, sea, great sea, [ᴹQ.] open sea; water” ✧ PM/363
Derivations
belegoer
place name. Great Sea
Changes
- Belegar → Belegaer ✧ LR/019
- Belegar → Belegaer “Great Sea” ✧ SMI/Belegar
Cognates
- ᴹQ. Alataire “Great Sea” ✧ Ety/ÁLAT; Ety/AY
Elements
Word Gloss beleg “great, large” oer “sea” Variations
- Belegar ✧ LR/014; LR/019; LRI/Belegar; SMI/Belegar
- Belegaer ✧ LR/019; LRI/Belegar
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alataire
place name. Great Sea
Another name of the “Great Sea” (N. Belegoer) appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as compound of alta “great (in size)” and aire “sea” (Ety/ÁLAT, AY).
Cognates
- N. Belegoer “Great Sea” ✧ Ety/ÁLAT; Ety/AY
Elements
Word Gloss alta “large, great in size” aire “sea”
haloisi velike
place name. Great Sea
A name of the Great Sea in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/85), a compound of haloisi “(stormy) sea” and velike “great”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Haloisi Velikë).
Variations
- Haloisi Velikë ✧ LT1A/Haloisi Velikë
Name of the “Great Sea” lying between Middle-earth and Valinor (S/37). This name is a compound of beleg “mighty” and gae(a)r “sea” (SA/beleg, gaer; PM/363).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name first appeared as N. Belegar (LR/14), soon revised to Belegaer (LR/19). In The Etymologies, it appeared as Belegoer (Ety/ÁLAT, AY, BEL), a reflection of Tolkien’s uncertainty on whether the diphthong [[n|[ai] became [oe] or [ae]]]. In the later Silmarillion revisions from the 1930s, he used Belegaer consistently following the [[n|revision of [oe] to [ae]]].