lómen

adjective. echoing

A Doriathrin adjective for “echoing”, a combination of lóm “echo” and the adjective suffix -en (Ety/LAM). Its Quenya cognate lámina suggests a primitive form ✱✶lāminā, from which the [[ilk|long [ā] became [ō]]] and the -en developed due to Ilkorin a-affection, as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Doriathrin/lómen).

Conceptual Development: Tolkien first wrote lómin (EtyAC/LAM), perhaps indicating some uncertainty on the exact functioning of Ilkorin a-affection on Tolkien’s part. In the North Sindarin dialect that was in some ways the conceptual successor to Ilkorin, [[norths|final [a] did not mutate preceding vowels]].

Changes

• lómin → lómen ✧ Ety/LAM

Cognates

• ᴹQ. lámina “echoing” ✧ Ety/LAM
• N. glamren “echoing”

Derivations

• ᴹ√LAM “*sound” ✧ Ety/LAM

Element in

• Ilk. Lómendor ✧ Ety/LAM
• Ilk. Lóminorthin “Echoing Mountains” ✧ Ety/LAM
• N. Dor-lómen
• N. Eredlómin “Echoing Mountains”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√LAM > lómen	[lāminā] > [lāmina] > [lōmina] > [lōmena] > [lōmen]	✧ Ety/LAM

Variations

• lómin ✧ EtyAC/LAM (Dor. lómin)

môr

noun. night

A noun for “night” derived from primitive ᴹ✶mǭri (EtyAC/MOR), where the primitive [[ilk|[ǭ] became [ō]]].

Cognates

• ᴹQ. móre “blackness, dark, night” ✧ Ety/MOR

Derivations

• ᴹ✶mǭri “blackness, dark, night” ✧ EtyAC/MOR
  • ᴹ√MOR “*black, dark” ✧ Ety/MOR

Element in

• Ilk. myrilind “nightingale” ✧ Ety/MOR

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶mǭri > môr	[mǭri] > [mǭre] > [mōre] > [mōr]	✧ EtyAC/MOR