Q. ando n. “gate, [great] door; †entrances, approaches” (Category: Door, Gate)
A word for “gate”, the Quenya name of tengwa #5 [2] in The Lord of the Rings Appendix E (LotR/1122).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien instead had ᴱQ. pondo “gate” under the early root {ᴱ√PONO >>} ᴱ√BOÐO (QL/75). He also had an element ᴱQ. tarnon in the name ᴱQ. Moritarnon “Door of Night” (LT1/215), which in Gnomish was G. Tarn Fui making ᴱQ. tarnon the cognate of G. tarn “gate” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/69).
ᴱQ. ando first appeared in the Early Noldorin Dictionary of the 1920s as a variant of ᴱQ. andon, both cognates to ᴱN. ann “door” (PE13/160). It reappeared in cosmological notes from the early 1930s as an element in the updated name ᴹQ. Ando Lómen “Door of (Timeless) Night” (SM/237, 241), and in a glossary for these notes, ᴹQ. ando was glossed “door, gate”.
In The Etymologies of the 1930s ᴹQ. ando “gate” was derived from primitive ᴹ✶adnō under the root ᴹ√AD “entrance, gate” (Ety/AD). Tolkien gave it as the name for tengwa #5 in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s (PE22/22) and 1940s (PE22/50). In notes from December 1959 (D59) he gave it a new derivation:
The words for “door, gate”, [ancient Sindarin] annō, annon(d)- are derivatives of √ANA “to” and mean originally “entrances, approaches”. Cf. Q ando. Quite distinct is ANAD- “long”, Q andā, S ann/and rare except in old words or names as anduin, Q anduine (PE17/40).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would assume the word applied to any protected entrance, generally used of gates but also applicable to a strong door, though a particularly large and strong entrance would use its augmented form: [ᴹQ.] andon(d-) “great gate” (Ety/AD).
References ✧ LotR/1122; PE17/40, 123; UT/304
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| √ANA > ando | [ando] | ✧ PE17/40 |
ᴹQ. ando n. “gate, door” (Category: Door, Gate)
References ✧ Ety/AD; EtyAC/LOƷ; PE22/22, 50; SM/241
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| ᴹ✶adnō > ando | [adnō] > [andō] > [ando] | ✧ Ety/AD |
ᴱQ. pondo n. “gate” (Category: Door, Gate)
Reference ✧ QL/75 ✧ “gate”
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| ᴱ√BOÐO > pondo | [bonðō] > [bonðo] > [bondo] > [pondo] | ✧ QL/75 |
ᴱQ. #tarnon n. “door” (Category: Door, Gate)
Reference ✧ LT1A/Moritarnon ✧ “door”
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