uinen

feminine name. Uinen

A Maia, Lady of the Seas (S/30). The meaning of this name is unclear, and it is probably adapted from her Valarin title like the name of her spouse Ossë (WJ/404).

Conceptual Development: The earliest form of her name was ᴱQ. Ówen, from the “Poetical and Mythological Words of Eldarissa” (PME/70). A similar word ᴱQ. ówen “mermaid” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as a derivative of the root ᴱ√’O’O “Sea” (QL/70). This name also appeared the earliest Lost Tales, but was quickly replaced ᴱQ. Ónen (LT1/58, 61). At this early stage, G. Uinen was the Gnomish equivalent of her name (GL/74), but Uinen gradually supplanted Ónen in the writing of the Lost Tales (LT1/121, 130 note #6).

In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, her name in Quenya was also ᴹQ. Uinen, and this name appeared in The Etymologies alongside N. Uinen as a combination of the roots ᴹ√UY “seaweed” and ᴹ√NEN “water” (Ety/UY, NEN). At this stage, the genitive form of her name was given as ᴹQ. Uinenden (Ety/UY) implying a stem form of Uinend-, but Tolkien may have abandoned this form, as evidenced by the later name Q. Uinéniel “Daughter of Uinen” (Uinen + -iel). The idea that her name was derived from Valarin did not emerge until the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 (WJ/404).

Element in

• Q. Tol Uinen “*Island of Uinen”
• Q. Uinendili “Lovers of Uinen”
• Q. Uinéniel “Daughter of Uinen”

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in Sindarin as well

óin

masculine name. Óin

uinen

feminine name. Uinen

Noldorin name of ᴹQ. Uinen from The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/NEN, UY) derived from the same primitive form ✱✶Uinendă, as indicated by ON. Uinenda and the Quenya stem-form Uindend-.

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, her Gnomish name was G. Uinen (GL/74), while her usual Qenya name from this period was ᴱQ. Ónen (LT1/61).

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Uinen ✧ Ety/NEN; Ety/UY

Derivations

• On. Uinenda ✧ Ety/UY

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
On. Uinenda > Uinend > Uinen	[Uinenda] > [Uinend] > [Uinenn] > [Uinen]	✧ Ety/UY

Variations

• Ui-nend- ✧ Ety/NEN
• Ui-nend ✧ EtyAC/NEN