ondo noun "stone" as a material, also "rock" (UT:459, GOND). Pl. ondor in an earlier variant of Markirya; partitive pl. locative ondolissë "on rocks" in the final version. Compounded in ondomaitar "sculptor in stone" (PE17:163), Ondoher masc.name, *"Stone-lord" (ondo alluding to Ondonórë = Sindarin Gondor, "stone-land") (Appendix A), #ondolunca ("k") "stonewain", possessive form in the place-name Nand Ondoluncava "Stonewain Valley" (PE17:28, also Ondoluncanan(do) as a compound). Ondolindë place-name "Gondolin" (SA:gond, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator p. 193); see Ondo. Earlier "Qenya" has Ondolinda _(changed from Ondolin) "singing stone, Gondolin" (LT1:254)_
Quenya
ondolindë
place name. Rock of the Music of Water, (lit.) Singing Stone
Cognates
Derivations
- ✶Gondō̆-lindē ✧ PE17/133
Derivatives
- S. Gondolin “Hidden Rock, (originally) Singing Stone” ✧ PE17/029; PE17/133; WJ/201
Element in
- Q. Menelluin Írildeo Ondolindello “Cornflower of Idril from Gondolin” ✧ TAI/193
Elements
Word Gloss ondo “stone (as a material), (large mass of) rock” lindë “singing, song, musical sound, singing, song, musical sound; [ᴹQ.] air, tune” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶Gondō̆-lindē > Ondolinde [gondolindē] > [ɣondolindē] > [ondolindē] > [ondolinde] ✧ PE17/133 Variations
- Ondolinde ✧ PE17/029; PE17/133
ondo
stone
ʼondō
noun. stone
PQ. stone
on
stone
on, ondo noun "stone" (LT2:342, LT1:254 probably only ondo in LotR-style Quenya, see below). Various "Qenya" forms: ondoli "rocks" (MC:213; this would be a partitive plural in LotR-style Quenya), ondolin "rocks" (MC:220), ondoisen "upon rocks" (MC:221), ondolissen "rocks-on" (MC:214; the latter form, partitive plural locative, is still valid in LotR-style Quenya).
The original Quenya name of S. Gondolin, translated “Rock of the Music of Water” (S/125), but more literally “Singing Stone” or “Stone of Music” (PE17/133). It also appeared in the shorter form Ondolin (PE17/29). It is a compound of ondo “stone” and lindë “singing, song” (PE17/29, PM/374, SA/gond).
Conceptual Development: In the very early Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, a similar form ᴱQ. Ondolinda “Singing Stone” was given as the Quenya equivalent of G. Gondolin (GL/41), where its second element was apparently ᴱQ. linda “singing”.