Quenya 

wentë

brook

wentë noun "brook" (GL:46)

túra

big, great

túra adj. "big, great" (PE17:115), related to words for power and apparently referring to a more abstract greatness than words like haura "huge". Cf. taura, túrëa. Apparently initial element of Túrosto.

polda

big

polda adj. "big" (PE17:115), "strong, burly" (POL/POLOD)

polda

adjective. big, big; [ᴹQ.] strong, burly; [ᴱQ.] mighty, powerful

Derivations

  • √POL “can, have physical power and ability; large, big (strong); pound up, break up small, reduce to powder, can, have physical power and ability; large, big (strong); [ᴹ√] physically strong, [ᴱ√] have stength; [√] pound up, break up small, reduce to powder” ✧ PE17/115

Derivatives

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√pol > polda[polna] > [polda]✧ PE17/115

Variations

  • polya ✧ PE17/115 (polya)

nellë

brook

nellë noun "brook" (NEN)

Primitive elvish

khaw

root. big

Changes

  • KHAW → KHAWA ✧ PE17/115

Derivatives

  • Q. haura “huge” ✧ PE17/115
  • Q. höa “big, large” ✧ PE17/115

Variations

  • KHAWA ✧ PE17/115; PE17/157
  • KHAW ✧ PE17/115 (KHAW)
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kelus

noun. brook

Changes

  • kelut → kelus “brook” ✧ PE21/71

Derivations

  • √KEL “flow (down or away), run (of water or rivers), go away, flow (down or away), run (of water or rivers), go away, [ᴹ√] run away especially downwards or at end; [ᴱ√] ooze, trickle”

Variations

  • kelut ✧ PE21/71 (kelut)
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Westron

tung

noun. big

Changes

  • tunga → tung ✧ PM/053

Variations

  • tunga ✧ PM/061 (tunga)
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Qenya 

nelle

noun. brook, brook, *stream

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “brook” derived from primitive ᴹ✶nenle (Ety/NEN), where the ancient nl became ll (PE19/47).

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶nenle “brook” ✧ Ety/NEN
    • ᴹ√NEN “*water” ✧ Ety/NEN

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶nen-le > nelle[nenle] > [nelle]✧ Ety/NEN

Middle Primitive Elvish

nenle

noun. brook

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEN “*water” ✧ Ety/NEN

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. nelle “brook, brook, *stream” ✧ Ety/NEN

Variations

  • nen-le ✧ Ety/NEN
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Gnomish

gwent

noun. brook, small river

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s given as G. gwent “brook, small river” with an apparent variant gwed, both derivatives ᴱ√gu̯et (GL/46).

Cognates

  • Eq. wente “brook, small river” ✧ GL/46

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWETE “*wind, turn, bend” ✧ GL/46

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√gwed² > gwent[went] > [gʷent] > [gʷenθ] > [gʷent]✧ GL/46
ᴱ√gwed² > gwed[wet] > [gʷet] > [gʷed]✧ GL/46

Variations

  • gwent ✧ GL/46
  • gwed ✧ GL/46

gwent

adjective. big, large; fine

gwen(n)

adjective. big, large; fine

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWENE “*large, wide” ✧ GL/45

Element in

  • G. Bladorwen “Wide Earth, Mother Earth”
  • G. -wen “*augmentative” ✧ GL/45

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√gwene- > gwen[gwen]✧ GL/45
ᴱ√gwene- > gwent[gʷent] > [gʷenθ] > [gʷent]✧ GL/45

Variations

  • gwen ✧ GL/45
  • gwent ✧ GL/45
  • gwenn ✧ GL/45

nern

noun. brook

A noun glossed “brook” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a derivative of ᴱ√nere (GL/60).

Derivations

Element in

  • G. nermil “a fay that haunts the meadows and riverbanks” ✧ GL/60

Early Quenya

wente

noun. brook, small river

A noun given the cognate of G. gwent “brook, small river” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the root ᴱ√gu̯et (GL/46). Tolkien seems to have revised the primitive form to u̯et and the Qenya form to vente.

Changes

  • wente → vente ✧ GL/46

Cognates

  • G. gwent “brook, small river” ✧ GL/46

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWETE “*wind, turn, bend” ✧ GL/46

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√gwed² > wente[gʷentē] > [gʷente] > [wente]✧ GL/46

Variations

  • vente ✧ GL/46
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vente

noun. brook, small river

wenda

noun. brook

A noun given as ’wenda “brook” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√GWEÐE (QL/103).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWEÐE “*bend, loop” ✧ QL/103

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√GWEÐE > ’wenda[gʷenðā] > [gʷenða] > [gʷenda] > [wenda]✧ QL/103

Variations

  • ’wenda ✧ QL/103
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