n. Bot. 'sun-star'.
Sindarin
elanor
noun. a flower, a kind of enlarged pimpernel bearing golden and silver flowers
elanor
noun. star-sun (flower)
elanor
noun. 'sun-star'
elanor
feminine name. Elanor
Sam Gamgee’s eldest child, who was named after the flower of Lórien elanor “sun-star” (LotR/1026, SD/129). In Tolkien’s unfinished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings, this name also appeared in the diminutive form Elanorellë (SD/122).
Element in
- S. ar Meril bess dîn, ar Elanor, Meril, Glorfinniel, ar Eirien sellath dîn “and Rose his wife; and Elanor, Rose, Goldilocks and Daisy his daughters” ✧ SD/129
Elements
Word Gloss elanor “a golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star”
elanor
noun. a golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star
Element in
- S. Elanor
Elements
Word Gloss êl “star” Anor “Sun” Variations
- Elanor ✧ LotRI/Elanor; UT/216
alf
noun. flower
Cognates
- Q.
alba“flower” ✧ PE17/153Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √GAL-AB > alf [alba] > [alva] > [alv] ✧ PE17/153
elloth
noun. (single) flower
loth
noun. flower
_n._flower, a single bloom. Q. lóte, lōs.
ninglor
noun. golden water-flower, gladden
loth
noun. flower, inflorescence, a head of small flowers
The noun is collective, a single flower being lotheg
lotheg
noun. (single) flower
mallos
noun. a golden flower
niphredil
noun. a pale winter flower, snowdrop
elanor
pimpernel
: the word elanor (pl. elanoer) refers to a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers.
elanor
star-sun
(a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers) elanor (pl. elanoer). Archaic *elanaur.
edlothia
flower
(verb) #edlothia- (i edlothia, in edlothiar) (to blossom);
loth
flower
loth, pl. lyth (but loth is also glossed ”blossom” and may itself function as a collective term: all the flowers of a plant. For individual flowers cf. the following:)
êl (“star”) + anor (“sun”)