WATH
From Tolkien Gateway
WATH is an Elvish root signifying "shade".[1]
Derivatives[edit | edit source]
- Primitive Quendian: aw'tha[2]
- Quenya: waþar, vasar ("a veil"); vasarya- ("to veil")[2]
- Old Noldorin (Old Sindarin): watha[1]
- Sindarin: gwath; gwathra- ("overshadow, dim, veil, obscure"); gwathren; gwathui;[2]
- Ilkorin: gwath[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 397; cf. 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. 21
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 42, July 2001, pp. 9-10