Eldamo : Sindarin : hwest

S. ^hwest n. “breeze, puff” (Category: Breeze)

S. ^hwest, n. “breeze, puff, [N.] breath” (Category: Breeze): ᴱN. blith “breeze, [G.] zephyr; air”

XXX PE23/136

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as N. chwest “puff, breath, breeze” (ON. hwesta) from the root ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” (Ety/SWES).

References ✧ PE23/136, 139

Glosses

“breeze” ✧ PE23/136 (whest)
“puff, breeze” ✧ PE23/139 (whest)

Variations

whest ✧ PE23/136; PE23/139
†chwest ✧ PE23/139

whest was written above cwest ✧ PE23/136

Changes

chwest >> cwest ✧ PE23/136

Inflections

i·chwist	nasal-mutation plural; hw-mutation	✧ PE23/139
chwest	soft-mutation; hw-mutation	✧ PE23/136
cwest	soft-mutation; hw-mutation	✧ PE23/136
whest	soft-mutation; hw-mutation	✧ PE23/136

Cognates

Q. hwesta “breeze”

N. chwest n. “puff, breath, breeze” (Category: Breeze)

See S. ^hwest for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/SWES ✧ “puff, breath, breeze”

Cognates

ᴹQ. hwesta “breeze, breath, puff of air” ✧ Ety/SWES
ON. hwesta “puff, breath, breeze” ✧ Ety/SWES

Derivations

< ON. hwesta “puff, breath, breeze” ✧ Ety/SWES
- < ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing” ✧ Ety/SWES

Phonetic Developments

ON. hwesta > chwest

[w̥esta] > [xwesta] > [xwest]

✧ Ety/SWES