Sindarin
tathar
noun. willow (tree)
Changes
- taur/taor → tathar ✧ PE17/081
Cognates
- Q. tasar(ë) “willow” ✧ SA/tathar
Derivations
Element in
- S. tathren “of willow(s)”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √TASĀR > tachaur > taur/taor [tasāre] > [tasǭre] > [tahǭre] > [tahaure] > [tahaur] > [taur] ✧ PE17/081 ✶taþā̆rĭ- > tathar [tatʰari] > [tatʰare] > [taθare] > [taθar] ✧ PE17/081 Variations
- taur/taor ✧ PE17/081 (taur/taor)
tathar
noun. willow-tree
tathar
noun. willow
tathren
adjective. of willow, having willows
tathar
willow
tathar, also tathor (i dathar/-or; o thathar/-or), pl. tethair (i thethair) or (if tathor has an analogical plural) tethyr (i thethyr). Adj.
tathar
willow
also tathor (i dathar/-or; o thathar/-or), pl. tethair (i thethair) or (if tathor has an analogical plural) tethyr (i thethyr). Adj.
tathren
of willow, having willows
(lenited dathren, pl. tethrin)
The Sindarin word for “willow”, derived from the same root √TATHAR as its Quenya cognate tasarë (SA/tathar; PE17/81). Its adjectival form tathren “of willow(s)” is an element in the name Nan-tathren “Land of Willows” (S/120).
Conceptual Development: The earliest form of this word was G. tathrin “willow” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/69), cognate to ᴱQ. tasarin derived from the early root ᴱ√TASA (QL/53). This was an element in the early names G. Nan Tathrin and G. Dor-tathrin “Land of Willows”, but as a noun rather than an adjective. ᴱN. tathrin “willow” reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/153), but in The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien split it into two words: noun N. tathor “willow” and adjective N. tathren “of willow” under the root ᴹ√TATHAR (Ety/TATHAR).
In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien revisited the noun, first having [deleted] S. taur or taor derived from √TASĀR, which he revised to S. tathar derived from √TAÞAR, as noted above (PE17/81). The adjectival form S. tathren continued to appear in Silmarillion drafts of the 1950s and 60s as well (WJ/80).