12.81 Round
- ᴹQ. korna adj. “round, globed”
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A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “round, globed” derived from primitive ᴹ✶kornā under the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR). It likely means “*round in three dimensions”, as opposed to ᴹQ. rinda “circular”.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. korima “round” under the early root ᴱ√KORO “be round, roll” (QL/48).
- Q. pel- adj. “to go round, encircle; [ᴱQ.] to surround, fence in, pen in; ⚠️[ᴹQ.] to revolve, return”
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A verb for “go round, encircle” (SA/pel) with a long history in Tolkien’s writings. In The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared under the root ᴹ√PEL “revolve on fixed point” and was glossed “go round” but also “revolve, return” (Ety/PEL). In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s ᴱQ. pele- was glossed “surround, fence in, pen in” under the early root ᴱ√PELE¹ “fence in” (QL/73).
Neo-Quenya: In Tolkien’s later writings the root √PEL meant “edge, bound, fence, limit” (PE17/65) rather than “revolve” (which became √KWER), so for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use pel- mainly in the sense “go round, encircle” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien in the Silmarillion Appendices (SA/pel). I would also use the Early Qenya senses “surround, fence in, pen in”, but not the 1930s meanings “revolve, return” for which I would use quer- (“revolve”) or entul- (“return”) instead.
- ᴹQ. rinda adj. “circular”
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A word for “circular” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√RIN (Ety/RIN).
- N. corn adj. “round, globed”
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A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s equivalent to ᴹQ. korna “round, globed”, both derived from primitive ᴹ✶kornā under the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR).
Conceptual Development: In Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s ᴱN. corn was a noun meaning “round ball, &c” (PE13/140), and in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s G. corn meant “loaf” (GL/26), probably all based on the early root ᴱ√KORO “be round, roll” (QL/48).
- N. rhenn adj. “circular”
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A word appearing as N. rhenn “circular” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√RIN (Ety/RIN; EtyAC/RIN). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road this word was given as rhinn “circular” (LR/383), but this was corrected to rhenn by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/11).
Neo-Sindarin: Many Neo-Sindarin writers adapt this word as ᴺS. rend “circular” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin as suggested in Hiswelókë’s Sindarin Dictionary (HSD), since the unvoicing of initial r to rh was a feature of Noldorin of the 1930s but not Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s. The final d is in keeping with the notion that “nd remained at the end of fully accented monosyllables” in Sindarin (LotR/1115).