lumenyárë

history, chronological account

lumenyárë noun "history, chronological account" (NAR2 - read *lúmenyárë?) According to VT45:36, the manuscript spelling actually seems to be lumennyáre, but Hostetter and Wynne conclude that this is "probably a slip": The double nn would be difficult to justify.

lúmequenta

history, chronological account

lúmequenta ("q")noun "history, chronological account" (LU)

quenta silmarillion

proper name. History of the Silmarils

The full and proper title for The Silmarillion (S/33). It is a combination of quenta “tale” and the genitive plural of Silmaril.

Conceptual Development: In the early 1930s, the original Quenya title of the cycle of tales that eventually became The Silmarillion was ᴹQ. Qenta Noldorinwa (SM/77). In the mid-30s, Tolkien introduced the name ᴹQ. Qenta Silmarillion which became the full title of the tales, while Quenta Noldorinwa became an alternate title (LR/202).

lúmequentalë

history

lúmequentalë ("q")noun "history" (LU, KWET). According to VT45:29, the accent marking the ú as a long vowel is actually missing in the entry LU in Tolkien's original Etymologies manuscript; yet it is apparently included both in the entry KWET and in the related words lúmequenta and lúmequentalëa; its omission in the entry LU is therefore probably just a slip.

pennas

history

(i bennas, o phennas) (account), pl. pennais (i phennais), coll. pl. pennassath

gobennas

history

1) gobennas (i **obennas), pl. gebennais (i ngebennais = i ñebennais), collective pl. gobennnassath**. (Archaic pl. *göbennais.) 2) pennas (i bennas, o phennas) (account), pl. pennais (i phennais), coll. pl. pennassath

gobennas

history

(i ’obennas), pl. gebennais (i ngebennais = i ñebennais), collective pl. gobennnassath. (Archaic pl. ✱göbennais.)

pennas

noun. history, historical account

pennas

noun. history

Cognates

• ᴹQ. qenta “tale, story, account, history” ✧ SM/27; LRI/Qenta
• ᴹQ. qentale “account, history” ✧ Ety/KWET

Derivations

• ᴹ√KWET “say” ✧ Ety/KWET

Element in

• N. gobennas “history” ✧ Ety/KWET
• N. Pennas inGeleidh “History of the Gnomes” ✧ LR/201
• N. Pennas-na-Ngoelaidh “History of the Noldoli” ✧ SM/077; SMI/Pennas
• N. Pennas Silevril “History of the Silmarils” ✧ LR/202

Elements

Word	Gloss
pent	“tale, story”
-as	“abstract noun”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√KWET > pennas	[kwentasse] > [pentasse] > [pentʰasse] > [penθasse] > [penθass] > [pennass] > [pennas]	✧ Ety/KWET

Variations

• Pennas ✧ LR/201; LR/202; LRI/Pennas; LRI/Qenta; SM/077; SM/27; SMI/Pennas

gobennas

noun. history

gobennas

noun. history

Cognates

• ᴹQ. lúmeqentale “history” ✧ Ety/KWET

Element in

• N. gobennathren “historical” ✧ Ety/KWET

pennas silevril

proper name. History of the Silmarils

Noldorin equivalent to ᴹQ. Qenta Silmarillion, one of the names of the Silmarillion story cycle (LR/202). This name is a combination of pennas “history” and (plural?) Silevril “Silmaril”, also appearing in its lenited form Hilevril.

Changes

• Pennas Hilevril → Pennas Silevril “History of the Silmarils” ✧ LR/202

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Qenta Silmarillion “History of the Silmarils” ✧ MRI/Pennas Silevril; LR/202

Elements

Word	Gloss
pennas	“history”
Silevril	“Silmaril”

Variations

• Pennas Hilevril ✧ LR/202; LRI/Pennas
• Pennas ✧ WJI/Pennas