N. naneth n. “mother” (Category: Mother)
A noun for “mother” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the (Noldorin-only?) root ᴹ√NAN (Ety/NAN). It apparently replaced archaic/poetic N. †emil (Ety/AM¹; EtyAC/AM¹).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon had a similar set of words for “mother”: G. maba, mabir, baba, and mavwin from the early root ᴱ√maƀ “something nice” (GL/57). The last of these appeared as G. mavwen “ancestress” in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips modifying that document, with an archaic meaning of “mother” and variant forms mafwyn and mavuin (PE13/115). In these slips, it seems the normal “mother” word was G. nân (originally glossed “father”) with variant nanwin (PE13/115). This last word is likely the direct precursor of N. naneth.
Neo-Sindarin: I would use S. emel from the late 1960s as the normal word for “mother” in Neo-Sindarin, but would retain N. naneth as a dialectical or more formal variant.
References ✧ Ety/AM¹, NAN
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| ᴹ√NAN > naneth | [nanitta] > [nanittʰa] > [naniθθa] > [naneθθa] > [naneθθ] > [naneθ] | ✧ Ety/NAN |
G. mavwin¹ n. “ancestress, †mother” (Category: Ancestor)
References ✧ GL/57; PE13/115
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G. mab(a) n. “mother” (Category: Mother)
References ✧ GL/29, 57
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