N. anrand n. “cycle, age (100 Valian Years)” (Category: Age)
A word appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as N. anrand, a combination of N. ann “long” [< ᴹ✶andā] and ON. randa “cycle, age (100 Valian Years)” (Ety/RAD). Notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s instead had andrand [untranslated] (PE22/41).
Possible Etymology: Given its constituent element, anrand must be derived from *andarantā. Most of the time, we expect the ndr in the middle of such a word to survive, such as in Andram and Andros. However, Helge Fauskanger pointed out that in notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien indicated a ndr would become nr before following d: “findarātō would have become find-raud > findrod > finrod with loss of the medial d before a following d” (VT41/9). A similar phenomenon could have applied to anrand.
Neo-Sindarin: Hiswelókë’s Sindarin Dictionary (HSD) suggested an alternate development for this word, with the final -nd becoming -nn resulting in ᴺS. andrann. However, I prefer to retain anrand and would use it to mean “age” = “*long cycle”. I would use ᴺS. rand [< ᴹ✶randā] as “cycle” for shorter cyclical periods.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. born “age, great period” (GL/23), cognate to ᴱQ. vorne “aeon” which appeared under the early root ᴱ√VORO in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/102). ᴱN. born “great age, age, period” reappeared in Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/139).
References ✧ Ety/RAD; PE22/41
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| ann | “long” | prefix | ✧ Ety/RAD (#an-) |
| ON. randa | “cycle, age (100 Valian Years), *millenia” | ✧ Ety/RAD |
Cognates
ᴱN. born n. “great age, age, period” (Category: Age)
References ✧ PE13/139, 141-142
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| bornath | plural | ✧ PE13/139 | |
| vorn | soft-mutation; b-mutation | “ages” | ✧ PE13/142 |
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