A plural element in the name Noirinan “Valley of Tombs” (UT/166), so perhaps ✱noire in the singular. It may be related to loico “corpse” via an unattested root (N)DOY as suggested by David Salo in a post on the Elfling mailing list in 2012.
Quenya
noirë
tomb
noirë
noun. tomb
Element in
- Q. Noirinan “Valley of Tombs” ✧ UT/166
cumbë
mound, heap
cumbë ("k")noun "mound, heap" (KUB)
Noirinan
valley of the tombs
Noirinan noun the "Valley of the Tombs" in Númenor (evidently *noirë*, noiri- "tomb" + nan** "valley") (UT:166)
coron
mound
coron (1) noun "mound" (SA); Coron Oiolairë ("Koron"), place-name: the "Mound of Eversummer" where the Two Trees grew. Also contracted Corollairë (WJ:401) and Corlairë (MR:107); both are spelt with an initial k in the sources.
coron
noun. mound, mound; [ᴹQ] globe, ball
A word glossed “mound” in the name Q. Koron Oiolaire “Mound Ever-summer” in the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 (SA/coron; WJ/401). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, however, ᴹQ. koron was glossed “globe, ball” and was derived from the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR). If this was its primary meaning, then perhaps it could also refer to round hills as hemispheres. In The Etymologies, its stem form was korn- as indicated by its (Middle Quenya) genitive kornen, likely the result of the Quenya syncope; the same reduction in inflected forms may have applied to the later version of the word as well.
Derivations
- √KOR “round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll”
Element in
- Q. Corollairë “Green Mound, *(lit.) Mound of Summer” ✧ SA/coron
- Q. Coron Oiolairë “Mound Ever-summer” ✧ SA/coron
lára
grave
[lára (2) noun "grave" (VT45:8)]
#noirë noun "tomb", isolated from Noirinan, q.v. This compound may suggest that noirë has the stem-form noiri-, unless the compound is supposed to contain a plural form "tombs".