AM
From Tolkien Gateway
AM is an Elvish root, with two different meanings.[1]
AM1
Meaning: "mother"
- Quenya: amil or amme
- Ilkorin: aman (pl. emnin[2])
- Exilic Noldorin poetic: emil[2]
AM2
Meaning: "up" (usually in form amba-) or "go up"[3]
- Quenya: am- ("up", prefix); amba ("up(wards)", adverb); ambon[2] ("upward slope, hill-side"); ambo ("hill")[2]
- Noldorin (Sindarin): am ("up"); am-bend, amben ("uphill"); amon ("hill"); am-rún[2] ("uprising, sunrise"; hence Quenya ambaron, "Orient" [cf. Ambaróna])
Obsolete forms
In the Qenya Lexicon, appears the Qenya form AM(U) ("up(wards)").[4]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 348
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 5
- ↑ 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)
