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Middle Primitive Elvish

gonod

root. stone

The Elvish words for “stone” were established very early as Q. ondo and S. gond. In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien gave the root of these words as ᴱ√ONO “hard” with derivatives like ᴱQ. ondo “stone, rock” and ᴱQ. onin “anvil” (QL/70). But its Gnomish derivatives like G. gonn “stone” and G. gontha “pillar” (GL/41) indicate the actual root was ✱ᴱ√ƷONO, since initial ʒ > g in Gnomish.

In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien gave the root as ᴹ√GONOD or √GONDO “stone” with essentially the same Elvish forms: ᴹQ. ondo and N. gonn (Ety/GOND). The root itself did not appear in later writings, but Tolkien continued to state, with great frequency, that the primitive form of the word was ✶gondō (Let/410; PE17/28; PE18/106; PE21/81; PM/374; RC/347).

Changes

  • GONDGÓNOD/GONDO “stone” ✧ Ety/GOND

Derivatives

  • gondō “stone, rock”
    • Q. ondo “stone (as a material), (large mass of) rock” ✧ Let/410; RC/347
    • Aq. ondō ✧ PE21/78
    • Q. ondo “stone (as a material), (large mass of) rock”
    • S. gond “stone, rock, stone, rock, [N.] stone (as a material), [G.] great stone” ✧ RC/347
    • Os. gondo ✧ PE21/78
    • S. gond “stone, rock, stone, rock, [N.] stone (as a material), [G.] great stone”
  • ᴹ✶gondō “stone, rock”
    • ᴹQ. ondo “stone (as a material)” ✧ PE19/052; PE21/58; PE21/63
    • On. gondo “rocks” ✧ PE21/58
    • N. gonn “rock, stone (as a material)”
  • ᴹQ. ondo “stone (as a material)” ✧ Ety/GOND
  • ᴺQ. onin “anvil”
  • N. gonn “rock, stone (as a material)” ✧ Ety/GOND

Variations

  • GOND ✧ Ety/GOND (GOND)
  • GÓNOD/GONDO ✧ Ety/GOND
  • GONOD/GONDO ✧ EtyAC/GOND
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/GOND; EtyAC/GOND] Group: Eldamo. Published by