S. thôn n. “pine-tree” (Category: Pine)
The Sindarin word for “pine-tree”, most notably as an element in the names Dorthonion “Land of Pines” and Orod-na-Thôn “Mount of the Pine Tree(s)”. Tolkien gave it as thôn < ✶stŏna in a 1955 letter to David Masson (PE17/82) and as {thaun >>} thôn in notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, derived from {✶stāna >> ✶thānĭ- >>} ✶thŏno (PE17/81).
Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. thaun “pine-tree” under the root ᴹ√THŌN of the same meaning (Ety/THŌN). Likely the vowel in this root was a fronted ǭ, which became au in both Sindarin and Noldorin.
In the 1910s and 20s, the “pine-tree” word was ᴱN./G. aigos, first glossed {“cheshnut tree”} in Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/17), with a variant form G. aiguis in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/108), and simply as ᴱN. aigos “pine-tree” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/136, 158). It was replaced by thaun/thôn in Tolkien’s later writing, as noted above.
References ✧ LotR/469; PE17/81-82; RC/384; SA/thôn
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| thoen | plural | ✧ PE17/81 |
| thuin | plural | ✧ PE17/81 |
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| ✶thānĭ- > thaun | [tʰāni] > [tʰāne] > [θāne] > [θǭne] > [θaune] > [θaun] | ✧ PE17/81 |
| ✶thānĭ- > thoen | [tʰānī] > [tʰāni] > [θāni] > [θǭni] > [θoin] > [θoen] | ✧ PE17/81 |
| ✶thŏno > Thôn | [θono] > [θon] > [θōn] | ✧ PE17/81 |
| ✶thŏno > thuin | [θoni] > [θuni] > [θuin] | ✧ PE17/81 |
N. thaun n. “pine-tree” (Category: Pine)
References ✧ Ety/THŌN; TI/420
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| #Thuin | plural | ✧ TI/420 |
| thuin | plural | ✧ Ety/THŌN |
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| Ilk. thōn > thaun | [θōn] ? [θǭn] > [θoun] > [θaun] | ✧ Ety/THŌN |
| Ilk. thōn > thuin | [θǭni] > [θouni] > [θauni] > [θuin] | ✧ Ety/THŌN |
ᴱN. aigos n. “pine-tree” (Category: Pine)
References ✧ PE13/136, 158
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| aigesir | plural | ✧ PE13/158 |
| aigis | plural | ✧ PE13/136 |
| aigosyn | plural | ✧ PE13/136 |
| aigys | plural | ✧ PE13/158 |
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