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S. ^#cund n. “*prince” (Category: Prince)

S. ^#cund, n. “*prince” [vetted by HSD] (Category: Prince)

This word is only directly attested in The Etymologies, appearing as N. †cunn “prince” (Ety/KUNDŪ) and marked as an archaic form (EtyAC/KUNDŪ). It still appears in later writings as a element in some first-age Sindarin names from The Silmarillion: Baragund, Belegund and perhaps Felagund (see below). Its Quenya cognate Q. cundo also appears in later writings (PM/260, PE17/117-8), indicating that †cund may have remained conceptually valid.

Alternate etymologies of the name Felagund complicate this picture, however. In a 1959 etymology Tolkien said Felagund was derived from Dwarvish Felakgundu “Cave Hewer” (PM/352), and in a 1969 etymology Tolkien said it meant “den-dweller” and that “the ending -gund could not be interpreted from Eldarin” (NM/304). This indicates cund “prince” may have been abandoned, and that Baragund and Belegund were either (a) remnants of earlier conceptions or (b) reinterpreted as Mannish (Beorian) names.

Elsewhere, the third-age Sindarin word for “prince” is said to be caun (PE17/102), so even if survived conceptually, it seems likely the older form †cund fell out use.

References ✧ NM/304

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-gund soft-mutation; c-mutation ✧ NM/304

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N. †cunn n. “prince” (Category: Prince)

References ✧ Ety/KUNDŪ; EtyAC/KUNDŪ

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ᴹ√KUND-Ū > †cunn [kundū] > [kundu] > [kundu] > [kund] > [kunn] ✧ Ety/KUNDŪ

ᴱN. thing n. “prince” (Category: Prince)

References ✧ PE13/154

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G. bridhon n. “king, prince” (Category: King)

References ✧ GL/22, 24, 49; LT2A/Hirilorn, Tevildo

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ᴱ√VṚÐṚ “*rule”
#-(r)on “agental suffix” ✧ GL/24 (#-on)

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