Gwanur
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Noldorin
gwanur is a Noldorin word meaning "kinsman, kinswoman".[1][2]
Etymology
Old Noldorin wanūro, from root NŌ.[1][2]
Sindarin
In the Appendices occurs the name Haudh in Gwanûr (spelled Haudh in Gwanur in editions of The Lord of the Rings prior to the 2004 edition). As the word gwanûr/gwanur seems to have the same usage as Noldorin gwanur (the Haudh in Gwanûr being the mound of two brothers), it is likely that Tolkien wanted to retain the meaning of the Noldorin word for the Sindarin word (although changing the form to gwanûr).Template:Or[3]
Didier Willis has suggested that gwanur (retaining the same meaning)[note 1] could be valid Neo-Sindarin.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Willis adds two additional glosses for gwanur: "a pair of twins" and "brother". The latter seems to derive from the related cognate Quenya onóro ("brother") in the Etymologies. The former appears to derive from those buried ("they were twin brothers") in the Haudh in Gwanûr in the Appendices.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", pp. 378, 392
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part Two" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 46, July 2004, p. 6
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion", "The Stewards"
- ↑ Didier Willis, Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary at Jrrvf.com (accessed 19 June 2011)
