lesta

measure

#lesta (2) noun "measure", only attested in the instrumental case: lestanen"in measure" (FS). The name Lestanórë (q.v.) may contain a distinct noun #lesta "fence" or "girdle".

lesta

noun. *girdle

An element in the name Q. Lestanórë for Doriath (WJ/369), untranslated but probably the cognate to S. lest “girdle” from the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” (WJ/228).

Cognates

• S. lest “girdle, girdle, *belt”

Element in

• Q. Lestanórë “Doriath, *(lit.) Land of the Girdle” ✧ WJ/369

Variations

• Lesta ✧ WJ/369 (Lesta)

Lestanórë

doriath

Lestanórë place-name "Doriath", gen. Lestanórëo (WJ:369). If this name means the same as the Sindarin name Doriath, "Land of the Fence", #lesta ought to mean "fence" here (but it is obviously not a cognate of the Sindarin term iâth "fence").It may mean "girdle"; compare Sindarin Lest Melian as a name of the Girdle of Melian (WJ:XXX), suggesting*"Girdle-land" as the meaning of Lestanórë.

combë

gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection

combë ("k") noun "gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection". Also ocombë (PE17:158)

ocombë

gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection

ocombë ("k") noun "gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection". Also combë (PE17:158)

Doriath

noun. land of the fence

(n-)dôr (“land,dwelling”) + iâth (“fence”); genitival sequences with possessor or qualifier second in the later period became fixed compounds, as Dóriath; #probably reinterpreted by Tolkien from earlier ” land of the cave” < (n-)dôr (“land, dwelling-place”) + #i (sing or genitive article) + gath (“cavern”) [Etym. GATH-]

Doriath

Doriath

topon.

annas

5{#iD noun. length

Theoretical Sindarin; based on the attested formations thinnas (– adj. thent).

Doriath

place name. Land of the Fence

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth.

Doriath

Doriath

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth. The earlier name of Doriath, Eglador, probably means either "Land of the Forsaken" or "Land of the Elves"[source?] in Sindarin.