Q. formen n. “north” (Category: North)
The Quenya word for “north” and the name of tengwa #10 (LotR/1123). It is a combination of ᴹ√PHOR “right-hand” and √MEN “way”, so named because it is the direction to the right when facing west (PE17/18; PE22/23; Ety/PHOR, MEN). It is also the name of the region of the north which in English would be “the North” but Quenya just has Formen without the definite article (PE23/133).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. póme “north” under the early root ᴱ√PO (QL/74) along with a variant poar (QL/75), both of which were also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/75). The Ambarkanta of the early 1930s at first had Tormen for “north”, but this was revised for Formen both there and in The Etymologies from 1937 (SM/244; Ety/MEN) and Tolkien used formen thereafter.
References ✧ LotR/1123; PE17/18, 125; PE23/133; SA/formen, men; VT49/26
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| formenna | allative; assimilated | “northwards” | ✧ VT49/26 |
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| for- | “right-hand, north” | ✧ PE17/18 |
| men | “way” | ✧ SA/men |
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ᴹQ. formen n. “north, right hand” (Category: North)
References ✧ Ety/MEN, PHOR; PE22/23, 50; SMI/Formen, Tormen
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| forya | “right [hand], dexter” | ||
| men | “place, spot” | ||
| ᴹ√MEN | “go, proceed; purpose, aim (at), intend; [rejected] place, spot” | ✧ Ety/MEN; Ety/MEN; Ety/PHOR | |
| ᴹ√PHOR | “right-hand” | ✧ Ety/MEN; Ety/PHOR | |
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