Elenna

starwards

Elenna place-name "Starwards", a name of Númenor: Elenna-nórë *"Starwards-land", "the land named Starwards", genitive Elenna-nórëo in CO.

elenna

place name. Starwards

Another name for Númenor (S/261), it was the allative form of elen “star”, and thus meant “Starwards”.

Cognates

• Ad. Gimlad “Starwards”

Element in

• Q. Elenna-nórë “The Land of the Star” ✧ UT/305

Elements

Word	Gloss
elen	“star”
-nna	“(movement) to, towards, onto, at (arriving at a point); allative suffix”

gimlad

place name. Starwards

Another name for Númenor translated “Starwards” (SD/378), the equivalent of Q. Elenna. Its first element is gimil “stars” with the Adûnaic syncope and its second element is the suffix -ad (-ada) “toward”, as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (AAD/15).

Cognates

• Q. Elenna “Starwards”

Elements

Word	Gloss
gimil	“(all) stars; ?silver”
-ada	“to, toward, into, against, -ward”