vangwë

blow

vangwë noun "blow" (PE17:34), i.e. a blast of wind

vangwë

noun. storm; blow, storm, *gale; blow

A word for “storm” in notes from around 1957, derived from primitive ✶wagmē based on the root √WĀ as the “echoic” representation of the sound of wind (NM/237). In Quenya Notes (QN) from around the same time, Tolkien had vangwe (of the same basic derivation) with the gloss “blow” (PE17/34).

Conceptual Development: A likely precursor is ᴱQ. ’wanwa “great gale” the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a derivative of the early root ᴱ√GWĀ (QL/102).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I think the sense “storm” is more useful than “blow”.

Cognates

• S. gwaew “storm; blow” ✧ PE17/034

Derivations

• ✶wagmē “storm” ✧ NM/237; PE17/034
  • √WĀ “blow; noise of wind, echoic representation of sound of wind” ✧ NM/237
  • √WAY “blow (of wind), be disturbed” ✧ PE17/034

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶wagmē > vangwë	[wagmē] > [waŋmē] > [waŋgwē] > [βaŋgwē] > [βaŋgwe] > [vaŋgwe]	✧ NM/237
✶wagme > vangwe	[wagme] > [waŋme] > [waŋgwe] > [βaŋgwe] > [vaŋgwe]	✧ PE17/034

Variations

• vangwe ✧ PE17/034

váva

blow

váva vb.? "blow" (the wording used in the source is unclear, but wā-ya is said to mean "blow", and after discussing Sindarin forms Tolkien instructs himself to "alter Quenya", introducing a new primitive form ¤wā-wā with váva- as the Quenya outcome. Possibly this still means "blow" as a verb referring to wind.) PE17:34

wáya-

blow

wáya- "blow" (PE17:34, cf. wanwa), perhaps altered to váva (q.v.; the wording of the source is unclear)

gwaew

noun. storm; blow

A Sindarin word in notes from around 1957, derived from primitive ✶wagmē, the equivalent of Q. vangwë “storm” (NM/237). It is not entirely clear whether Tolkien intended the Sindarin word to have the same meaning, as elsewhere gwaew was typically glossed “wind”. But in the same paragraph, gwae also appeared (likewise unglossed), which is the more usual Sindarin word for “wind”, so I think gwaew = “storm” is a reasonable assumption. The same form and derivation of gwaew < ✶wagme appeared in Quenya Notes also from 1957, but there its Quenya equivalent (also vangwe) was glossed “blow”.

Cognates

• Q. vangwë “storm; blow, storm, *gale; blow” ✧ PE17/034

Derivations

• ✶wagmē “storm” ✧ NM/237; PE17/034
  • √WĀ “blow; noise of wind, echoic representation of sound of wind” ✧ NM/237
  • √WAY “blow (of wind), be disturbed” ✧ PE17/034

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶wagmē > gwaew	[wagmē] > [wagme] > [gwagme] > [gwaɣme] > [gwaime] > [gwaim] > [gwaem] > [gwaev] > [gwaew]	✧ NM/237
✶wagme > gwaew	[wagme] > [gwagme] > [gwaɣme] > [gwaime] > [gwaim] > [gwaem] > [gwaev] > [gwaew]	✧ PE17/034

dram

blow

dram (i dhram) (heavy stroke), pl. draim (in draim);

dram

blow

(i dhram) (heavy stroke), pl. draim (in draim);

drambor

blow with fist

(i dhrambor) (clenched fist), pl. dramboer (in dramboer). Archaic ✱drambaur (dram + paur).

wiw

root. blow

wāya

verb. blow

Changes

• wā-ya → wā-wā “blow” ✧ PE17/034

Derivations

• √WĀ “blow; noise of wind, echoic representation of sound of wind” ✧ NM/237
• √WAY “blow (of wind), be disturbed” ✧ PE17/034

Derivatives

• S. gwae “wind” ✧ NM/237; PE17/034

Variations

• wā-yo ✧ NM/237
• wā-ya ✧ PE17/034
• wāyā ✧ PE17/034