Q. rína adj. “garlanded, crowned” (Category: Hat, Cap)
This adjective first appeared as ᴹQ. rína “crowned” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from the root ᴹ√RIG and an element in the names ᴹQ. Elerína and Tinwerína, both meaning “Crowned with Stars” (Ety/RIG). It appeared again in notes from 1959 as a suffix -rína meaning “garlanded, crowned”, again derived from √RIG (PE17/182). In the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the early 1950s, Tolkien derived rína from the root √RIK, but he changed his mind on the phonetic developments which rendered this etymology unviable and the whole section was deleted and replaced (PE19/85-86 note #79).
References ✧ PE17/182; PE19/86
Variations
Inflections
| -rína | suffix | “garlanded, crowned” | ✧ PE17/182 |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| √RIG > -rína | [rigna] > [riŋna] > [rīna] | ✧ PE17/182 |
| ✶riknā > rína | [rikna] > [rigna] > [riŋna] > [rīna] | ✧ PE19/86 |