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N. taen¹ n. “height, summit of high mountain” (Category: Peak, Summit)

N. taen¹, n. “height, summit of high mountain” (Category: Peak, Summit)
ᴱN. daroth “top, peak, point, tip, spike, [G.] summit”
G. darath “summit, peak”
G. orm “hill top, summit”

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “height, summit of high mountain” derived from primitive ᴹ✶taʒna of similar meaning (Ety/TĀ), where the diphthong ae arose due to the usual vocalization of ʒ [ɣ] before nasals. It would have gone through the same vocalizations and had the same form if it were a Sindarin word.

Conceptual Development: In Early Noldorin Word-lists there were two similar nouns: ᴱN. tain “mountain” (PE13/153) and ᴱN. dain “height, summit; height, loftiness, sublimity” (PE13/141, 161). The first of these probably had a derivation similar to later N. taen, but the latter was derived from primitive ᴱ✶dágniya. The two forms seems to represent distinct early roots *ᴱ√DAHA and ᴱ√TAHA, which would have blended together in Early Qenya since initial voiced stops were unvoiced: d- > ᴱQ. t-.

Reference ✧ Ety/TĀ ✧ taen “height, summit of high mountain”

Element In

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶taʒna > taen [taɣna] > [tagna] > [taŋna] > [taina] > [tain] > [taen] ✧ Ety/TĀ

ᴱN. dain² n. “height, summit; height, loftiness, sublimity” (Category: Peak, Summit)

See N. taen¹ for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/141, 161

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Inflections

deinir plural ✧ PE13/141; PE13/161

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ᴱN. tain¹ n. “mountain” (Category: Hill, Mountain)

See N. taen¹ for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/152-153

Glosses

Element In


G. dorm n. “summit” (Category: Peak, Summit)

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “summit” derived from ᴱ✶daormĕ- (GL/42). It is probably the cognate of ᴱQ. torme “mountain peak” and thus a derivative of ᴱ√TAHA (QL/87), which based on its Gnomish derivatives is probably *ᴱ√DAHA.

Reference ✧ GL/30 ✧ “summit”

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶daormĕ- > dorm [daorme] > [dorme] > [dorm] ✧ GL/30