Dain

Dain

dain

proper name. *Nando

Derivations

• ✶ndanyā ✧ PE17/140

Elements

Word	Gloss
Dân	“*Green-elf”

dân

proper name. *Green-elf

Derivations

• ✶ndandō “one who goes back on his word or decision” ✧ PE17/140; PE17/140
  • √(N)DAN “back (again); retreat, go back, give way (as one advances), revert, back (again), [ᴹ√] backwards; [√] retreat, go back, give way (as one advances), revert” ✧ WJ/412

Element in

• S. Dain “*Nando”
• S. Dor-i-Ndainn “*Land of the Nandor” ✧ PE17/141

Variations

• Dann ✧ PE17/140
• Dan ✧ PE17/140
• dand ✧ PE17/141 (dand)

danedhel

proper name. *Nando

Apparently a Sindarin term for one of the Q. Nandor (PE17/141), a combination of dan “(go) back” and Edhel “Elf”.

Cognates

• Q. Nandor “Silvan Elves, (lit.) Those who go back”

Elements

Word	Gloss
dan	“back to, (back in return) against, down upon, back on, back again”
Edhel	“Elf”

Variations

• Denieðel ✧ PE17/140
• daineðel ✧ PE17/141
• Daneðel ✧ PE17/141

ar-

prefix. high, noble, royal

Ara-

prefix. high, noble, royal

duinen

high tide

(i dhuinen), pl. duinin (i nuinin). (VT48:26).

taen

height

taen (i daen, o thaen) (summit of high mountain), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thaen). Note: a homophone means ”long (and thin)”.

taen

height

(i daen, o thaen) (summit of high mountain), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thaen). Note: a homophone means ”long (and thin)”.

brand

tall

(lofty, noble, fine), lenited vrand, pl. braind.

andrath

high pass

(literally "long climb"), pl. endraith.

hall

tall

(exalted); lenited chall; pl. hail. Note: a homophone means ”veiled, hidden, shadowed, shady”.

or

high

(adjectival pref.) or- (above, over), also ar- (noble, royal). In the form ar(a)- this is an element in the names of the kings of Arnor and Arthedain. Nouns:

or

high

(above, over), also ar- (noble, royal). In the form ar(a)- this is an element in the names of the kings of Arnor and Arthedain. Nouns:

raud

tall

(eminent, noble), in compounds -rod,  pl. roed. Also used as noun ”champion, eminent man, [a] noble”.

taur

tall

(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”.

hallas

noun. height

Elements

Word	Gloss
hall	“exalted, high”

gondrath

highway

(i ’ondrath) (street of stone, causeway), pl. gendraith (i ngendraith = i ñendraith). Archaic pl. göndreith. (WJ:340). Possibly the pl. can also be gondraith, without umlaut of the first element.

telu

high roof

(i delu, o thelu) (dome), pl. tely (i thely).