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S. hanar n. “brother” (Category: Brother)

S. hanar, n. “brother” (Category: Brother)
G. hethos “brother”

A word for “brother” coined by Tolkien in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s, based on the root √KHAN¹ of the same meaning and replacing the archaic form of the word †hawn (VT47/14). Remnants of this archaic form can be seem in the diminutive/affectionate form honeg “[little] brother” (VT48/6); Tolkien considered and apparently rejected alternates of the diminutive: honig and hanig (VT47/14; VT48/17).

Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. tôr “brother” from the root ᴹ√TOR (Ety/TOR), and the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. hethos “brother” from the early root ᴱ√HESE¹ [HEÞE] (GL/48-49; QL/40). See those entries for discussion.

Reference ✧ VT47/14 ✧ “brother”

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S. †hawn n. “brother” (Category: Brother)

See S. hanar for discussion.

Reference ✧ VT47/14 ✧ “brother”

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Phonetic Developments

KHAN > †hawn [kʰāno] > [xāno] > [xǭno] > [xauno] > [xaun] > [haun] ✧ VT47/14

S. honeg n. “brother (diminutive)” (Category: Brother)

See S. hanar for discussion.

References ✧ VT47/14; VT48/6, 17

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hawn “brother” ✧ VT47/14 (†hawn)
-eg¹ “diminutive/singular ending”
-i(n)ki “diminutive suffix” ✧ VT47/14 (-iki)

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