Eldamo : Quenya : hwesta

Q. hwesta n. “breeze” (Category: Breeze)

Q. hwesta, n. “breeze; [ᴹQ.] breath, puff of air” (Category: Breeze)

A noun in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings glossed “breeze”, the name of tengwa #12 [c] (LotR/1123).

Conceptual Development: ᴹQ. hwesta “breath, breeze, puff of air” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” (Ety/SWES).

Reference ✧ LotR/1123 ✧ “breeze”

Element In

ᴺQ. !hwestalauca “vapour”
Q. hwesta sindarinwa “Grey-elven hw” ✧ LotR/1123

Cognates

ᴺS. ^hwest “puff, breath, breeze”

Derivations

< ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing”

ᴹQ. hwesta n. “breeze, breath, puff of air” (Category: Breeze)

See Q. hwesta for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/SWES; PE22/22, 51

Glosses

“breath, breeze, puff of air” ✧ Ety/SWES
“breeze” ✧ PE22/22; PE22/51

Cognates

N. chwest “puff, breath, breeze” ✧ Ety/SWES
ON. hwesta “puff, breath, breeze” ✧ Ety/SWES

Derivations

< ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” ✧ Ety/SWES

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√SWES > hwesta

[swesta] > [w̥esta]

✧ Ety/SWES