Eldamo : Sindarin : men²

S. men² n. “road, way” (Category: Road)

S. men², n. “road, way; ⚠️[N.] *place” (Category: Road): G. haig “way, road, path”; G. lant “(high) road, level way, street”

A word appearing in the name Men-i-Naugrim, variously translated as “Dwarf Road” (UT/280) or “Way of the Dwarves” (UT/472). In one place it had the form Menn (NM/372). It is clearly based on the root √MEN “go”.

Conceptual Development: This word also appeared in the (untranslated) name N. Men Falros in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (WR/326). In The Etymologies of the 1930s its cognate ᴹQ. men was translated “place, spot” (Ety/MEN), so in this period N. men might have meant “*place” as in Men Falros = “*Place of Splashing Foam”.

References ✧ NM/372; UT/280; UTI/Men-i-Naugrim

Glosses

“road” ✧ NM/372 (Menn); UT/280
“way” ✧ UTI/Men-i-Naugrim

Variations

Men ✧ UT/280; UTI/Men-i-Naugrim
Menn ✧ NM/372

Element In

ᴺS. uthwen “escape, way out, exit”
S. Mengas Dûr “?Dark Gap in the Way”
S. Men-i-Naugrim “Dwarf Road, (lit.) Way of the Dwarves” ✧ NM/372 (Menn-i-Naugrim); UT/280

Cognates

Q. men “way”

Derivations

< √MEN “go, move, proceed (in any direction); make for, go towards; have as object, (in)tend; direction, object, point moved toward; region”

N. men² n. “*place” (Category: Place)

See S. men² for discussion.

Reference ✧ WR/326 ✧ Men

Element In

N. Men Falros “*Place of Splashing Foam” ✧ WR/326

Derivations

< ᴹ√MEN “go, proceed”