brand

towering; tall and massive

1 _ adj. _towering; tall and massive. >> brann

brand

noun. steeple

Derivations

• √BARAT “lofty, high, height combined with strength/size/majesty” ✧ PE17/022
  • √BAR “[ᴹ√] raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)”

Element in

• S. Tol Brandir “Tindrock, (lit.) Isle of the Great Steeples” ✧ PE17/022; PE17/061

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√BARAT > brand	[barántē] > [barándē] > [brandē] > [brande] > [brand]	✧ PE17/022

Variations

• brand ✧ PE17/022; PE17/061

brand

noun. steeple

_n. _steeple. >> brann

brand

adjective. towering; tall and massive, towering, tall and massive, [N.] high; lofty, noble, fine

Cognates

• Q. varanda “sublime” ✧ PE17/023

Derivations

• √BARAT “lofty, high, height combined with strength/size/majesty” ✧ PE17/022
  • √BAR “[ᴹ√] raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)”

Element in

• S. Brandir “*Noble Man”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√BARAT > brand	[barándā] > [branda] > [branda] > [brand]	✧ PE17/022

Variations

• brand ✧ PE17/022; PE17/023; PE17/061
• brann ✧ PE17/022; PE17/023; PE17/061

ylf

noun. brand

The word is classed as Old Noldorin (ON) in the Etymologies, but rather seems to be Noldorin

brann

towering

_ adj. _towering, tall and massive. >> brand

raud

lofty

adj. lofty. Q. rāta. >> arod, taer

bar

noun. dwelling, home

bar

noun. inhabited land

lhind

adjective. fine, slender

taer

lofty

adj. lofty. Q. tāra.

taer

adjective. lofty, lofty, *high

Cognates

• Q. tára “lofty, tall, high” ✧ PE17/186; PE17/186

Derivations

• √TĀ/TAƷ “high, high, [ᴹ√] lofty; noble” ✧ PE17/186
• ✶tagra ✧ PE17/186
  • √TĀ/TAƷ “high, high, [ᴹ√] lofty; noble” ✧ PE17/186

Element in

• S. Targon

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶tagra > taer	[taɣra] > [tagra] > [taɣra] > [taira] > [tair] > [taer]	✧ PE17/186

brand

tall)

_ 1) brand (lofty, noble, fine), lenited vrand, pl. braind. 2) hall (exalted); lenited chall; pl. hail. Note: a homophone means ”veiled, hidden, shadowed, shady”. 3) raud (eminent, noble), in compounds -rod, pl. roed. Also used as noun ”champion, eminent man, [a] noble”. 4) taur (also tor-, tar- in compounds) (lofty, high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, mighty, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.

brand

fine

1) brand (high, lofty, noble), lenited vrand, pl. braind, 2) trîw (lenited drîw; no distinct pl. form) (slender) , 3) *lhind (slender), lenited ?thlind or ?lind (the lenition product of lh is uncertain); no distinct pl. form. Sugggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” thlind.

ylf

brand

*ylf (no distinct pl. form; coll. pl. ylvath). (Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” iolf.) A homophone means ”drinking vessel”.

bâr

dwelling

bâr (house, home, family; land, earth) (i mâr, o mbâr, construct bar), pl. bair (i mbair). Also -bar, -mar at the end of compounds

mîn

towering

mîn (lenited vîn; no distinct pl. form) (isolated, first). Note: homophones include the noun ”peak” and the numeral ”one”.

arth

lofty

1) arth (noble, exalted), pl. erth, 2) brand (high, noble, fine), lenited vrand, pl. braind, 3) orchall (superior, eminent), pl. erchail (for archaic örchail), 4) taur (also tor-, tar- in compounds) (high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, mighty, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.

tham

hall

tham, pl. thaim, coll. pl. thammath;