S. lanthir n. “waterfall” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)
A word for “waterfall” in the name S. Lanthir Lamath “Waterfall of Echoing Voices” (S/235; PM/349). It is probably a combination of the variant root √LAT “fall” (more typically √DAT) and S. sîr “river”, hence “*falling river”.
Reference ✧ PM/349 ✧ Lanthir “waterfall”
Related
Elements
| √LAT² | “fall (to the ground)” | |
| sîr | “river, stream” | nasal-mutation |
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ᴱN. ach n. “waterfall” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)
In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien had G. acha “waterfall” as a cognate to ᴱQ. aksa (GL/17). Its form became âch in Gnomish Lexicon Slips adding to that document (PE13/108) and ach in Early Noldorin Word-lists from the 1920s (PE13/136, 158).
References ✧ PE13/136, 158
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| echir | plural | ✧ PE13/158 |
Derivations
G. acha n. “waterfall” (Category: Brook, Stream, River)
References ✧ GL/17; LT1A/Asgon; PE13/108
Glosses
Variations
Element In
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√aksa > acha | [aksā] > [aksa] > [acha] | ✧ GL/17 |