Etymology
From Common Eldarin/Primitive Quendian banda ("prison, Hell"), from root BAD[2].[1]
Cognates
- Quenya vanda ("prison, Hell")
Examples
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. 6 (given language is Noldorin)