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Q. ornë n. “(tall) tree” (Category: Tree (generic))

Q. ornë, n. “(tall) tree, [ᴹQ.] high isolated tree” (Category: Tree (generic))

A word for a “(tall) tree” in Quenya, derived from primitive ✶ornē (Let/426; PE17/25, 50). This word can be compared to the more common alda “tree”. Talking about the primitive forms Tolkien said:

... *ornē “tree” originally and usually applied to the taller, straighter, and more slender trees, such as birches [as opposed to] ... stouter and more spreading trees, such as oaks and beeches, were called in C.E. galadā “great growth” (NM/349 and note #1).

I would use ornë in Quenya only for tall straight trees, and alda as either the general word for “tree”, or where applicable for broad and spreading trees.

Conceptual Development: The earliest precursor to this word seems to be ᴱQ. orond- “bush”, cognate to G. orn “tree” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/62). It became {orne >>} ᴱQ. orme “tree” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/139) and then ᴹQ. orne “high isolated tree” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶ÓR-NI “high tree” (Ety/ÓR-NI). It retained the form orne thereafter.

References ✧ Let/308, 426; PE17/25, 50, 80, 112, 153

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ornē > orne [ornē] > [orne] ✧ Let/426

ᴹQ. orne n. “(high isolated) tree” (Category: Tree (generic))

See Q. ornë for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/ÓR-NI; SD/302

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ᴹ✶ÓR-NI > orne [orni] > [orne] ✧ Ety/ÓR-NI

ᴱQ. orne n. “tree” (Category: Tree (generic))

See Q. ornë for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/164; PE16/80, 139

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ornin nominative plural ✧ PE16/80

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ᴱ✶orne- > orne [ornē] > [orne] ✧ PE13/164

ᴱQ. #oron¹ (orond-) n. “bush” (Category: Vegetation (other))

See Q. ornë for discussion.

References ✧ GL/62

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orond- stem “bush” ✧ GL/62

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