daer (i naer, o ndaer), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndaer). Note: a homophone means "great, large", but has different mutations.
Quenya
Ender
bridegroom
Sindarin
daer
noun. bridegroom
daer
bridegroom
daer
noun. bridegroom
daer
bridegroom
(i naer, o ndaer), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndaer). Note: a homophone means "great, large", but has different mutations.
Noldorin
doer
noun. bridegroom
doer
noun. bridegroom
A noun appearing as N. doer “bridegroom” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√NDER of similar meaning (Ety/NDER). It is unusual in that its primitive form is ᴹ✶ndǣr, a rare example of the a-fortification of primitive e to ǣ (PE18/46). In Old Noldorin this became ON. ndair, and in Noldorin of the 1930s the diphthong [[n|[ai] became [oe] or [ae]]]. Indeed, in another entry in The Etymologies, Tolkien gave a variant form daer for “bridegroom”, though somewhat mysteriously he marked it as Old Noldorin (Ety/DER).
Neo-Sindarin: The a-fortification of primitive e remained a feature in Tolkien’s later writings, though in the 1950s Tolkien marked the result as ę̄ rather than ǣ (PE18/95). Thus primitive √NDER > ✱ndę̄r > OS. ndair > S. daer remains a plausible scenario in Sindarin, but ai > oe no longer occurred as it did in Noldorin. Therefore, I’d use the form ᴺS. daer for “bridegroom” in Neo-Sindarin, as suggested in HSD (HSD).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. nér “man, adult male” ✧ Ety/NDER
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NDERE > daer [ndǣr] > [ndair] > [dair] > [daer] ✧ Ety/DER On. ndair > doer [ndair] > [dair] > [doer] ✧ Ety/NDER Variations
- daer ✧ Ety/DER (On. daer)
enner
masculine name. Bridegroom
Cognates
- ᴹQ. Ender “Bridegroom” ✧ Ety/TULUK; EtyAC/E
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DER > Enner [endero] > [ender] > [enner] ✧ Ety/TULUK ᴹ✶Enderō > Enner [endero] > [endero] > [ender] > [enner] ✧ EtyAC/E
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Qenya
ender
noun. bridegroom, bridegroom, *groom
A word for “bridegroom” in The Etymologies derived from the root ᴹ√NDER, a strengthened form of the root ᴹ√DER “man” (Ety/NDER).
Conceptual Development: There is an unglossed word ᴱQ. vestaner the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s that is a combination of ᴱQ. vesta “marriage” and ᴱQ. ner “man” (QL/101). This Early Qenya word may likewise mean “✱(bride)groom”, as there is a distinct word for “husband” under the same root: ᴱQ. veru.
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Ender “Bridegroom” ✧ Ety/NDER
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶Endero > Ender [endero] > [ender] ✧ Ety/NDER Variations
- Ender ✧ Ety/NDER
ender
masculine name. Bridegroom
Another name for Tulkas appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s, developed from the primitive form ᴹ✶Endero (Ety/NDER, TULUK; EtyAC/E).
Cognates
- N. Enner “Bridegroom” ✧ Ety/TULUK; EtyAC/E
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶Enderō > Ender [endero] > [ender] ✧ EtyAC/E
Old Noldorin
ndair
noun. bridegroom
Cognates
- ᴹQ. nér “man, adult male” ✧ Ety/NDER
Derivations
Derivatives
- N. doer “bridegroom” ✧ Ety/NDER
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶ndǣr > ndair [ndǣr] > [ndair] ✧ Ety/NDER
daer
noun. bridegroom
Middle Primitive Elvish
ndǣr
noun. bridegroom
Derivations
Derivatives
Variations
- ndœ̄r ✧ EtyAC/NĪ¹
ndḗro
noun. bridegroom
Derivations
- ᴹ√(N)DER “adult male, man; bridegroom” ✧ Ety/NDER
Derivatives
Elements
Word Gloss -ro “an old agental formation” Variations
- ndēro ✧ EtyAC/NDER
Ender noun "bridegroom", surname of Tulkas (NDER, TULUK, VT45:11). The form Enderō(VT45:11) is defined as "[?virile] young bridegroom"; Tolkien's gloss was not entirely legible. But this would seem to be an archaic form, because of the long final -ō (later Quenya *Endero).