Eldamo : Sindarin : meneg

S. #meneg num. card. “thousand” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

S. #meneg, num. card. “thousand, *a large number” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

A word for a “thousand” implied by the name Menegroth “Thousand Caves” (S/56; WJ/415). It is possible this word simply means “*a large number” rather than being precisely 1000.

Conceptual Development: In the 1930s, the name Menegroth was Ilkorin (Ety/ROD), and thus the word meneg likely also belonged to that language. The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. moth(in) or mothwen “thousand”, originally meaning “flock” and related to G. moth “sheep” (GL/58).

Reference ✧ WJ/415 ✧ Meneg “thousand”

G. moth(in) “1000; †flock” had its sense “1000” later assigned to #meneg “thousand”

Element In

ᴺS. !mengui “thousandth”
S. Menegroth “Thousand Caves” ✧ WJ/415

Cognates

ᴺQ. !mencë “thousand”

Ilk. #meneg num. card. “thousand” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

A Doriathrin word meaning “thousand” (or possibly just “*large in number”) attested only as an element in the name Dor. Menegroth “Thousand Caves” (Ety/ROD, LR/220). Its etymology is unclear.

Reference ✧ Ety/ROD ✧ Dor. #Meneg

Element In

Ilk. Menegroth “Thousand Caves” ✧ Ety/ROD (Meneg-roth)

G. moth(in) n. “1000; †flock” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

See S. #meneg for discussion.

References ✧ GL/58; LT1A/Uin

Glosses

“1000” ✧ GL/58 (moth)
“1000; †flock” ✧ GL/58; LT1A/Uin (moth)

Variations

moth(in) ✧ GL/58
mothwen ✧ GL/58
moth ✧ LT1A/Uin; GL/58 (moth)

moth(in) “1000; †flock” had its sense “1000” later assigned to S. #meneg “thousand”

Changes

moth “1000” >> moth(in) “1000; †flock” ✧ GL/58

Elements

moth

“sheep”

✧ GL/58