Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

nan

noun. woodland, *land

Cognates

  • G. nand “field acre”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NAÐA “*plain” ✧ LT1A/Nandini; QL/064

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NAŘA > nan[nanð] > [nand] > [nan]✧ QL/064

Variations

  • nan(d) ✧ LT1A/Nandini
Early Quenya [LT1A/Nandini; QL/064] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tavas

noun. woodland

A noun given as ᴱQ. tavas (tavast-) “woodland” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with longer variant tavasta, derived from the root ᴱ√TAVA “beam” (QL/90).

Neo-Quenya: I think ᴺQ. tavas remains viable for purposes of Neo-Quenya as a derivative of √TAW “wood”.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TAVA “beam” ✧ LT1A/Tavari; QL/090

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TAVA > tavas[taβast] > [taβas] > [tavas]✧ QL/090

Variations

  • tavasta ✧ QL/090
Early Quenya [LT1A/Tavari; QL/090] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tavasta

noun. woodland