Quenya 

meren

feast, festival

meren (merend-), merendë noun "feast, festival" (MBER; Tolkien first gave the stem-form of meren as mern- before emending it to merend-, VT45:33-34)

Sindarin 

mereth

noun. feast, feast, [N.] festival

Derivations

  • ᴹ√M(B)ER “*feast, festive”

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
-th“abstract noun”

Variations

  • Mereth ✧ S/113
Sindarin [S/113; SA/mereth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mereth

noun. feast, festival

The word was changed to bereth in the Etymologies, but was never changed in the texts (cf. Mereth Aderthad and the compound Merethrond)

Sindarin [Ety/372, S/434] Group: SINDICT. Published by

mereth

feast

mereth (i vereth) (festival), pl. merith (i merith). Note: In the Etymologies, Tolkien changed the relevant root from _ to

mereth

feast

(i vereth) (festival), pl. merith (i merith). Note: In the Etymologies, Tolkien changed the relevant root from MER to MBER so that mereth became bereth, but names occurring in Tolkien’s narratives (Mereth Aderthad, Merethrond) were not changed, so this revision was never fully implemented.

Noldorin 

mereth

noun. feast, festival

The word was changed to bereth in the Etymologies, but was never changed in the texts (cf. Mereth Aderthad and the compound Merethrond)

Noldorin [Ety/372, S/434] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Gnomish

dulwen

noun. feast

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “feast” based on a (hypothetical) early root ᴱ√DULU having to do with dining (GL/31).

Elements

WordGloss
DULU“*dinner, dine”
-wen“noun suffix”