ᴹQ. #nornea adj. “*of oak” (Category: Oak)
An adjectival form of ᴹQ. norno appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as an element in ᴹQ. lindornea “having many oak-trees” (Ety/DÓRON). Here the ancient initial d- was preserved in the compound, but would have become n- as an independent word.
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. nornea “of oak” also appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as an adjectival form of ᴱQ. norne “oak-tree” (QL/67).
References ✧ Ety/DÓRON
Inflections
| #dornea | suffix | ✧ Ety/DÓRON |
Elements
| norno | “oak” |
| #-a | “adjectival suffix” |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√DÓRON > #dornea | [dornea] > [nornea] | ✧ Ety/DÓRON |