Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : GWENE²

ᴱ√GWENE² root. “*large, wide”

⚠️ᴱ√GWENE² root. “*large, wide”: √YAN¹ “wide, extensive, large, vast, huge; extend”

A root in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, with the derivatives like G. gwen(n) “big, large; fine” and G. Bladorwen “Wide Earth, Mother Earth” (GL/23, 45), thus probably meaning “*large, wide”. The name Bladorwen did not survive in the Legendarium and there are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Reference ✧ GL/45 ✧ gwene-

Derivatives

> G. gwen(n) “big, large; fine” ✧ GL/45; GL/45
- ⇒ G. Bladorwen “Wide Earth, Mother Earth”
- ⇒ G. -wen² “*augmentative” ✧ GL/45