Primitive elvish
wath
noun. shadow
Derivations
- √WATH “*shade, [ᴹ√] shade”
Derivatives
- S. gwath “shadow, dim light, shadow, dim light, [N.] shade” ✧ PE17/041
wath
root. *shade, [ᴹ√] shade
Derivatives
- ✶aw’tha “a dim shape, spectral or vague apparition” ✧ VT42/09
- ✶wath “shadow”
- S. gwath “shadow, dim light, shadow, dim light, [N.] shade” ✧ PE17/041
- S. gwath “shadow, dim light, shadow, dim light, [N.] shade” ✧ VT42/09; VT42/09
- S. gwathra- “to overshadow, dim, veil, obscure” ✧ VT42/09
- S. gwathren “shadowy, dim” ✧ VT42/09
Element in
- √WATHAR “*shadow, veil” ✧ VT42/09; VT42/09
Variations
- Wath ✧ VT42/09 (Wath)
The root ᴹ√WATH “shade” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like N. gwath of the same meaning (Ety/WATH). Primitive ✶wath “shadow” was mentioned in notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s as the basis for S. gwath (PE17/41), and primitive root √WATH appeared in notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s, again as the basis for S. gwath and similar words like S. gwathren “shadowy, dim” and Q. vasar “veil”, the latter from extended form waþar [√WATHAR] which was apparently the only survival of the shorter root in Quenya (VT42/9-10). This extended root might also be the basis for the (archaic?) region name Q. Avathar “Shadows” from The Silmarillion (S/73-4; MR/284).