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N. daen [nd-] n. “corpse” (Category: Corpse, Body)

N. daen [nd-], n. “corpse” (Category: Corpse, Body)

A noun for “corpse” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ON. ndagno under the root ᴹ√NDAK “slay” (Ety/NDAK), where the g vocalized to i before n and then ai became ae.

Conceptual Development: There were a couple of unrelated “corpse” words in Tolkien’s earlier writings. G. cweleg “corpse, dead body” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s based on G. cwel- “fade, wither” (GL/28), clearly the equivalent of contemporaneous ᴱQ. qelet (qelekt-) of the same meaning (QL/76). ᴱN. rhanc “corpse, body of one slain in battle” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s related to the verb rhengi (rhang-) “to slay in battle” (PE13/152).

Reference ✧ Ety/NDAK ✧ “corpse”

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ON. ndagno > daen [ndagno] > [ndaŋno] > [daŋno] > [daino] > [dain] > [daen] ✧ Ety/NDAK

ᴱN. rhanc n. “corpse, body of one slain in battle” (Category: Corpse, Body)

See N. daen for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/152

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Inflections

rhainc plural ✧ PE13/152

Element In


G. cweleg n. “corpse, dead body” (Category: Corpse, Body)

See N. daen for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/28 ✧ “corpse, dead body”

Elements

cwel- “to fade, wither” ✧ GL/28

Cognates