Q. †airon n. “ocean” (Category: Sea)
An (archaic) word for “ocean”, an augmentative form of airë mentioned in a couple of later notes (PE17/27, 149). A more modern form is ëaron.
Conceptual Development: The form ᴹQ. airen appeared in parenthesis beside ᴹQ. aire “sea” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/AY). Helge Fauskanger suggested that it might be a genitive form (QQ/airë), but in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s, aire “sea” >> airen (PE22/23 note #70), suggesting it is an alternate (augmentative?) form. If so, it is probably a precursor to airon.
References ✧ PE17/27, 149
Glosses
Related
Elements
| †airë² | “sea” | ✧ PE17/27 (†aire) |
| #-on² | “augmentative, great” | ✧ PE17/27 (#-on) |
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ✶airō > †airon | [airon] | ✧ PE17/149 |