Eldamo : Early Quenya : kandóra

ᴱQ. kandóra n. “bright dawn, red sky in morning” (Category: Dawn)

⚠️ᴱQ. candóra, n. “bright dawn, red sky in morning” (Category: Dawn): Q. ambarónë “dawn; [ᴹQ.] uprising, sunrise, Orient”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a bright dawn, red sky in morning” under the early root ᴱ√KṆŘṆ [KṆÐṆ] (QL/47). It was glossed “bright dawn” in Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/29). The word kandṓra also appeared in The Qenya Phonology from this same period as an example of stress patterns (PE12/5-6).

References ✧ PE12/5-6; PME/47; QL/47

Glosses

“a bright dawn, red sky in morning” ✧ QL/47 (kandōra)
“bright dawn” ✧ PME/47 (kandōra)

Variations

kandṓra ✧ PE12/5
kandó̹ra ✧ PE12/6
kandōra ✧ PME/47; QL/47

Derivations

< ᴱ✶kṇdōrā́ ✧ PE12/5
- < ᴱ√KṆÐṆ “shine”
< ᴱ√KṆÐṆ “shine” ✧ PME/47 (KṆŘṆ); QL/47 (KṆŘṆ)
< ᴱ✶kṇ́dṑra ✧ PE12/6 (kṇ̹dō̜ra)
- < ᴱ✶kṇdōrā́
  - < ᴱ√KṆÐṆ “shine”

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶kṇdōrā́ > kandṓra	[kṇdōrā] > [kṇdōra] > [kandōra]	✧ PE12/5
ᴱ✶kṇ̹dō̜ra > kandó̹ra	[kṇdōrā] > [kṇdōra] > [kandōra]	✧ PE12/6
ᴱ√KṆŘṆ > kandōra	[kṇðōrā] > [kṇdōra] > [kanðōra] > [kandōra]	✧ PME/47
ᴱ√KṆŘṆ > kandōra	[kṇðōrā] > [kṇdōra] > [kanðōra] > [kandōra]	✧ QL/47