Early Primitive Elvish
gwene
root. *large, wide
Derivatives
- G. gwen(n) “big, large; fine” ✧ GL/45
Variations
- gwene- ✧ GL/45
gwene
root. *maiden; woman
Changes
gw̯ene→ gu̯eđe ✧ GL/45WENE→ GWENE ✧ QL/103Derivatives
- ᴱ✶gu̯eđeþlī “maiden, little girl” ✧ GL/45
- G. gwethli “maiden, little girl” ✧ GL/45
- ᴱ✶u̯einā́ ✧ PE13/118
- G. gwin “woman, female” ✧ PE13/118
- ᴱ✶u̯enı̯ā̆́- ✧ PE13/118
- Eq. venya “womanl[y]” ✧ PE13/118
- ᴱ✶u̯eniı̯ássa “*female” ✧ PE13/118
- G. gwineth “female” ✧ PE13/118
- Eq. wen(di) “maid, girl, maiden” ✧ GL/45; LT1A/Urwen; QL/103; QL/103
- G. gwin “woman, female” ✧ PE13/118
- G. gwennin “girl” ✧ GL/45
- G. gwenedh “womanly?” ✧ PE13/118
- G. gwenithli “maidenhood” ✧ GL/45
- G. Gwedheling ✧ GL/45
Element in
- G. Gwedheling ✧ LT1A/Urwen
Variations
- gu̯eđe ✧ GL/45
- gw̯ene ✧ GL/45 (
gw̯ene)- GWENE ✧ LT1A/Urwen; QL/103 (GWENE)
- u̯enĭ- ✧ PE13/118
- WENE ✧ QL/103 (
WENE)
A root in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, with the derivatives like G. gwen(n) “big, large; fine” and G. Bladorwen “Wide Earth, Mother Earth” (GL/23, 45), thus probably meaning “✱large, wide”. The name Bladorwen did not survive in the Legendarium and there are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.