n. cave, mine, underground dwelling. Q. felco. Q.
Sindarin
feleg
noun. cave, mine, underground dwelling
Cognates
- Q. felco “cave, mine, underground dwelling” ✧ PE17/118
Derivations
- √PHELEG “excavation, excavation; [ᴹ√] cave” ✧ PE17/118
Element in
- S. Felagund “Lord of Caves; Hewer of Caves; Den Dweller” ✧ PE17/118
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √PHELEK > feleg [pʰeleke] > [ɸeleke] > [feleke] > [felek] > [feleg] ✧ PE17/118
feleg
noun. cave
beleg
adjective. great, mighty
daer
adjective. great
daer
adjective. great, large
Derivations
Element in
- S. Athrad Dhaer “Great Ford” ✧ WJ/338
- S. Daeron ✧ VT42/11
- S. Dor Daedeloth “Land of Great Dread; Land of Shadow of Horror”
- S. Dor-na-Daerachas “Land of Great Dread”
- S. Duin Dhaer ✧ WJ/191
- S. Lô Dhaer “Great Fen” ✧ VT42/14
- S. Lond Daer “Great Haven”
- S. Lond Daer Enedh “Great Middle Haven” ✧ UT/264
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶daira > daer [daira] > [dair] > [daer] ✧ VT42/11 Variations
- Daer ✧ UT/264; WJ/335
- daer ✧ VT42/11
roth
noun. cave
n. cave. Q. rondo.
groth
noun. cave, tunnel, large excavation
groth
noun. delving, underground dwelling
rond
noun. cave roof
rond
noun. vaulted or arched roof, as seen from below (and usually not visible from outside), or a (large) hall of chamber so roofed
beleg
great
beleg (mighty), lenited veleg, pl. belig
bíleb
adjective. equal
Element in
Elements
Word Gloss bîl “likeness, similarity”
#dae
great
#dae (lenited nae, no distinct pl. form). Isolated from daedhelos "great fear". Note: Homophones mean "shadow, shade" and also "very, exceedingly".
daer
great
daer (large), lenited dhaer, no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means "bridegroom", but has a different lenited form.
grôd
cave
1) grôd (i **rôd, construct grod) (delving, excavation, underground dwelling), pl. grŷd (in grŷd) (WJ:414), 2) groth (i **roth) (delving, large excavation), pl. gryth (in gryth) (VT46:12), 3) rond (construct ron) (cavern, vault, vaulted ceiling, hall with vaulted roof), pl. rynd (idh rynd), coll. pl. ronnath, 4) roth (delving, large excavation), pl. ryth, 4) gathrod (i **athrod), pl. gethryd (i ngethryd = i ñethryd), 5) fela (pl. fili). In the Etymologies (LR:381 s.v. PHÉLEG) the name Felagund is said to include this word, but since Tolkien later re-explained this name as a borrowing from Dwarvish, some would consider fela** as a word for ”cave” conceptually obsolete.
A word for “cave, mine, underground dwelling” in Notes on Names (NN) from 1957, derived from the root √PHELEK, that Tolkien considered as an alternative to fela (< ✶phelgā) for the initial element of the name Felagund (PE17/118).
Conceptual Development: N. feleg “(animal’s) horn; steep mountain peak” appeared in a deleted entry in The Etymologies of the 1930s, but that seems unrelated.
Neo-Sindarin: In a note from 1959, Tolkien derived Felagund as a loan word from Khuzdul Felakgundu “Cave Hewer” (PM/352), and this was the etymology Christopher Tolkien gave in The Silmarillion index (SI/Felagund). I prefer this as the basis for Felagund’s name, and √PHELEG over √PHELEK as the ancient Elvish root. Nevertheless I think feleg “cave” may remain viable in Neo-Sindarin as a loan word from Khuzdul. The similarity of ancient Elvish PHELEG and Dwarvish radical ✱F-L-K may be a coincidence or the result of Avari influence on Ancient Dwarvish.