S. hanar n. “brother” (Category: Brother)
A word for “brother” coined by Tolkien in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s, based on the root √KHAN¹ of the same meaning and replacing the archaic form of the word †hawn (VT47/14). Remnants of this archaic form can be seem in the diminutive/affectionate form honeg “[little] brother” (VT48/6); Tolkien considered and apparently rejected alternates of the diminutive: honig and hanig (VT47/14; VT48/17).
Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. tôr “brother” from the root ᴹ√TOR (Ety/TOR), and the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. hethos “brother” from the early root ᴱ√HESE¹ [HEÞE] (GL/48-49; QL/40). See those entries for discussion.
Reference ✧ VT47/14 ✧ “brother”
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S. †hawn n. “brother” (Category: Brother)
Reference ✧ VT47/14 ✧ “brother”
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| √KHAN > †hawn | [kʰāno] > [xāno] > [xǭno] > [xauno] > [xaun] > [haun] | ✧ VT47/14 |
S. honeg n. “brother (diminutive)” (Category: Brother)
References ✧ VT47/14; VT48/6, 17
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| †hawn | “brother” | ✧ VT47/14 (†hawn) | |
| -eg¹ | “diminutive/singular ending” | ||
| ✶-i(n)ki | “diminutive suffix” | ✧ VT47/14 (-iki) | |
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