Eldamo : Sindarin : whest

S. whest n. “breeze, puff” (Category: Breeze)

S. whest, n. “breeze, puff, [N.] breath” (Category: Breeze): ᴱN. blith “breeze, [G.] zephyr; air”

A word for “puff, breeze” appearing in notes on the Common Eldarin Article (CEA) from 1969, with an archaic form chwest in parentheses and a definite plural form of i·chwist (PE23/139). This was an example for the nasal mutation based on from words beginning with ancient sw, so was likely based on ancient *swestā and cognate to hwesta from The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1123).

Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. chwest “puff, breath, breeze” < ON. hwesta under the root ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” (Ety/SWES).

References ✧ PE23/136, 139

Glosses

“breeze” ✧ PE23/136
“puff, breeze” ✧ PE23/139

Variations

whest ✧ PE23/136; PE23/139
†chwest ✧ PE23/139

whest was written above cwest ✧ PE23/136

Changes

chwest >> cwest ✧ PE23/136

Inflections

i·chwist	nasal-mutation plural; wh-mutation	✧ PE23/139
chwest	soft-mutation; wh-mutation	✧ PE23/136
cwest	soft-mutation; wh-mutation	✧ PE23/136
whest	soft-mutation; wh-mutation	✧ PE23/136

Cognates

Q. hwesta “breeze”

N. chwest n. “puff, breath, breeze” (Category: Breeze)

See S. whest for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/SWES ✧ “puff, breath, breeze”

Cognates

ᴹQ. hwesta “breeze, breath, puff of air” ✧ Ety/SWES
ON. hwesta “puff, breath, breeze” ✧ Ety/SWES

Derivations

< ON. hwesta “puff, breath, breeze” ✧ Ety/SWES
- < ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” ✧ Ety/SWES

Phonetic Developments

ON. hwesta > chwest

[w̥esta] > [xwesta] > [xwest]

✧ Ety/SWES