hwesta

noun. breeze, breeze; [ᴹQ.] breath, puff of air

A noun in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings glossed “breeze”, the name of tengwa #12 [c] (LotR/1123).

Conceptual Development: ᴹQ. hwesta “breath, breeze, puff of air” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” (Ety/SWES).

hwesta

breeze, breath, puff of air

hwesta (1) noun "breeze, breath, puff of air" (SWES), also name of tengwa #12 (Appendix E, VT46:17); hwesta sindarinwa "Grey-elven hw", name of tengwa #34 (Appendix E).

hwesta-

verb. to puff

hwesta- (2) vb. "to puff" (SWES)

hwesta sindarinwa

noun. Grey-elven hw

hwindë

eddy, whirlpool

hwindë noun (2) "eddy, whirlpool" (SWIN). In the pre-classical Tengwar system presupposed in the Etymologies, hwindë was also the name of tengwa #34, which letter Tolkien would later call hwesta sindarinwa instead.

sindarinwa

grey-elven

sindarinwa (þ) adj. "Grey-elven" in the phrase hwesta sindarinwa "Grey-elven hw" (Appendix E); it may really be "Sindarin" (as a noun) with the possessive ending -va, -wa appended, hence literally "hw of [the] Sindarin [language]"

chwest

noun. puff, breath, breeze

chwinn

noun. eddy

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as N. chwinn “eddy, whirlpool” and derived from the root ᴹ√SWIN “whirl, eddy” (Ety/SWIN). Christopher Tolkien marked it as an “adj.” in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, but this was a misreading of the gloss “eddy” as reported by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/SWIN).

Neo-Sindarin: Many Neo-Sindarin as this word as ᴺS. hwind, as suggested in HSD (HSD). I prefer ᴺS. whind as more consistent with Tolkien’s orthography in the 1950s and 60s.

hwest

breeze

hwest (i chwest, o chwest) (puff, breath), pl. hwist (i chwist)

hwest

breeze

(i chwest, o chwest) (puff, breath), pl. hwist (i chwist)

hwest

puff

(i chwest, o chwest) (breath, breeze), pl. hwist (i chwist)

hwa

breeze

n. #breeze. >> hwá

hwá

breeze

n. #breeze. >> hwa

hwind

eddy

(noun) hwind (i chwind, o chwind; no distinct pl. form even with article; coll. pl. hwinnath) (VT46:22)

hwind

eddy

(i chwind, o chwind; no distinct pl. form even with article; coll. pl. hwinnath) (VT46:22)

hwinia

eddy

(verb) hwinia- (i chwinia, i chwiniar) (twirl, whirl)

hwinia

eddy

(i chwinia, i chwiniar) (twirl, whirl)****

whind

noun. eddy