Word Etymologies

[Joy]

Thanks, I'll go look it up. I have UT on my bookcase.


[Edit]: page 325 (my Version of UT) end of the chapter on Cirion and Eorl - Footnote 6.

It is an interesting fact, not refered to I believe in any of my father's writings, that the names of the early kings and princes of the Northmen and the Éothéod are Gothic in form, not Old English(OE)(Anglo-Saxon) as in the case of Léod, Eorl, ahnd the later Rohirrim. Vidugavia is Latinized in spelling, represinting Gothic Widugauja ('wood dweller'), a recorded Gothic name, and similarly Vidumavi Gothic Widumawi('wood maiden"). Marhwini and Marhari contian the Gothic wors marh ('horse"), corresponding to the OE mearh, plural mearas, the word used in LotR for the horse of Rhohan; wini "friend" corresponds to OE winë, seen in the names of several of the Kings of the Mark. Since, as is explained in Appedix F(II), the language of Rohan was "made to resemble ancient English," the names of the ancestors of the Rohirrim are cast into the forms of the earlest recorded Germanic language.

Second paragraph in footnote 36 - [qoute] Anglo-Saxon eorl in the name Eorl the Young is a wholy unrelated word.[/quote]

One more note - in the case of Ælfwinë, since this Rohiric is based on OE and ancient Germanic, this word then means "Elf-friend."

[ August 13, 2002: Message edited by: Joy ]