AM
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AM- is an Elvish root, with two different meanings.[1]
AM1-
Meaning: "mother"
AM2-
Meaning: "up" (usually in form amba-) or "go up"[2]
- Quenya: am- ("up", prefix); amba ("up(wards)", adverb); amban ("upward slope, hill-side")
- Noldorin (Sindarin): am ("up"); am-bend, amben ("uphill"); amon ("hill"); am-rûn ("uprising, sunrise"; hence Quenya ambaron, "Orient" [cf. Ambaróna])
Obsolete forms
In the Qenya Lexicon, appears the Qenya form AM(U) ("up(wards)").[3]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 348
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 146
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)