n. Bot. name of a hard-wood tree growing in Gondor (Ithilien). Q lepetta. Also used as word for the wood which took a high polish, lebethorn being altered to lebethron and associated with RUN 'rub, grind, smooth, polish'. >> ron. This gloss was rejected.
Sindarin
lebethron
noun. a tree - its black wood was used by the woodwrights of Gondor
lebethron
noun. name of a hard-wood tree growing in Gondor
lebethron
noun. Gondorian hardwood, *(lit.) finger tree
A species of Gondorian hardwood (LotR/694).
Possible Etymology: In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/89), Tolkien said that the final element -ron was a variant of orn “tree”. However, in an undated note probably from the late 1960s (also PE17/89), Tolkien said this word was originally †lebethorn, but became lebethron under the influence of S. ron “smooth by polishing” < ✱runda, but Tolkien then deleted the adjective ron. Tolkien said the initial element was related to Q. lepse [finger] in the earlier note, but in the late 1960s note said it was related to Q. lepetta, the Quenya word for the tree, so called “probably because its leaves (like chestnut) [were] shaped like a fingered hand”.
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s, Tolkien wrote ᴹQ. {melinon >> lebendron >>} lebethras when he first mentioned this tree (WR/176).
Cognates
- Q. lepetta “Gondorian hardwood” ✧ PE17/089
Derivations
- ✶lepethron ✧ PE17/089
Elements
Word Gloss leber “finger” orn “(tall straight) tree” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶lepeth-ron > lebethron [lepettaoroni] > [lepettaroni] > [lepettarone] > [lepettʰarone] > [lepeθθarone] > [lepeθθaron] > [lebeθθaron] > [lebeθθron] > [lebeθron] ✧ PE17/089 Variations
- Lebethron ✧ LotRI/Lebethron
- lebethorn ✧ PE17/089 (lebethorn)
malthorn
noun. golden tree of Lothlórien
malhorn
noun. golden tree of Lothlórien
oron
noun. tree
n. Bot. tree. Also in compound -(o)rŏnō. >> orn
mallorn
noun. golden tree of Lothlórien
orn
noun. (any large) tree
galadh
noun. tree
galadh
tree
_n. Bot._tree, like oak (nordh) and beech. A galadh was more thick, dense and branching than a orn. In Sindarin, there was no much distinction in size between galað and orn. A galað was more thick, dense and branching than a orn. Birch, ash and oak are of the orn kind. Q. alda. >> orn
galadh
tree
{ð} n. tree. In Sindarin, there was no much distinction in size between galað and orn. A galað was more thick, dense and branching than a orn. Birch, ash and oak are of the orn kind. Q. alda. >> orn
galadh
noun. tree
The basic Sindarin word for “tree” (LotR/1113), derived from primitive ✶galadā and very well attested. This word dates back at least to The Etymologies of the 1930s, where N. galadh “tree” appeared under the root ᴹ√GALAD (Ety/GALAD). See also orn “(tall) tree” of similar meaning.
Conceptual Development: Gnomish of the 1910s had some earlier version of this “tree” word: G. galdon >> alwen “tree” in the Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin (PE15/24) and archaic/poetic G. †alwen “tree” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/19), the latter probably from the early root ᴱ√ALA “spread” that was the basis for ᴱQ. alda “tree” (QL/29).
Cognates
Derivations
- ✶galadā “great plant, tree” ✧ Let/426; NM/349; NM/352; PE17/025; PE17/050; PE17/063; PE17/135; PE17/153; PE17/153; UT/266
Element in
- S. Bregalad “Quickbeam; (lit.) Quick (Lively) Tree”
- S. Caras Galadhon “City of the Trees” ✧ Let/426; NM/352; SA/alda; UT/267
- S. Caras i-Ngelaidh “City of the Trees” ✧ PE17/060
- S. Galadhon
- S. galadhremmen “tree-meshed” ✧ PE17/136
- S. Galadhrim “Tree-people” ✧ Let/426; PE17/050; SA/alda; UT/267
- S. Galadlóriel “Golden Rain, (lit.) Golden Tree”
- S. Galador
- S. Galadriel “Glittering-garland” ✧ SA/kal; UT/267
- S. Galadwen
- S. Galathilion “White Tree”
- S. Gelennil “Lover of Trees”
- S. lais geledhion “leaves of trees” ✧ PE17/097
- S. o galadhremmin ennorath “from tree-tangled middle-lands” ✧ PE17/025
- S. Orgaladh “Day of the Tree, *Tuesday”
- S. Orgaladhad “Day of the Two Trees, *Tuesday”
- S. si loth a galadh lasto dîn “*here flower and tree listen [in] silence” ✧ LB/354
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶galadā > galadh [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ Let/426 ✶galada > galað [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ NM/352 ✶galadā > galadh [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ PE17/025 ✶galadā > galadh [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ PE17/050 ✶galadā > galadh [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ PE17/063 ✶galadā > galaða > galað > galadh [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ PE17/135 ✶galadā́ > galað [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ PE17/153 ✶galadā > galað [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ PE17/153 ✶galadā > galadh [galadā] > [galada] > [galaða] > [galað] ✧ UT/266 Variations
- galað ✧ MR/182; MR/470; NM/349; NM/352; PE17/060; PE17/153; PE17/153
lebethron
oak tree
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lebethron
Lebethron
Lebethron was a Gondor Sindarin word. The fist element, lebeth, was related to Quenya lepsë, "finger". The second element was said to be derived from oron, "tree", though a later addition also ties it to the root RUN, "rub, grind, smooth, polish". In this light, the tree was named lebethorn, and the wood of the tree lebethron, and the two words merged into one over time. Didier Willis has speculated that it was the "finger-oak", or Quercus Digitata, though the identification of the second element as oron rather than doron, "oak", made that interpretation questionable.
lebethron
oak tree
. An unidentified tree (or its wood) is the lebethron.
galadhon
of or related to trees
(lenited ‘aladhon, pl. galadhoen). Archaic ✱galadhaun. The latter is based on David Salo’s analysis of the name Caras Galadhon; others have interpreted the last word as some kind of genitive plural, maybe influenced by Silvan Elvish.
doron
oak tree
doron (i dhoron), pl. deryn (i neryn). In "Noldorin", the pl. was deren.
doron
oak tree
(i dhoron), pl. deryn (i neryn). In "Noldorin", the pl. was deren.
huorn
walking tree of fangorn
(i chuorn, o chuorn), pl. huyrn (i chuyrn).
nothlir
family tree
(family line); no distinct pl. form; coll. pl. nothliriath.
galadhrim
people of the trees
(Elves of Lórien). Adj.
orn
tree
(pl. yrn). Note: a homophone means ”tall”.
galadh
tree
1) galadh (i **aladh), pl. gelaid (i ngelaidh = i ñelaidh) (Letters:426, SD:302). 2) orn (pl. yrn**). Note: a homophone means ”tall”.
galadh
tree
(i ’aladh), pl. gelaid (i ngelaidh = i ñelaidh) (Letters:426, SD:302).
toss
low-growing tree
(i** doss, o thoss, construct tos), pl. tyss (i** thyss). Tolkien mentioned ”maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, etc.” as examples of the low-growing trees covered by this word. Specific trees, see
In the original manuscript, one of the earlier (rejected) form of this name was lebendron. Didier Willis proposed the etymology lebed+doron "finger-oak", actually a real tree name (Finger Oak or Quercus digitata)