Q. #nómë n. “place” (Category: Place)
A word for “place” appearing as an element in names like Ondonórë Nómesseron Minasurië “Enquiry into the Place-names of Gondor” (VT42/17) and Quentalë Ardanómion “*History of the Places of Arda” (WJ/206). It is also an element in correlative combinations like sinomë “here, in this place” (LotR/967; PE17/67, 103), where it has a short o as the second element in a compound; compare lúmë “time” vs. silumë “now, at this time”.
Conceptual Development: ᴹQ. nome (or *nóme) first appeared in correlative combinations in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 as a derivative of ᴹ√NOM “spot, place” (PE23/112), this root replacing ᴹ√MEN of the same meaning (PE23/112 note #141). The rejected root refers back to ᴹQ. men “place, spot” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/MEN), which in turn had replaced ᴹQ. esse “place” under the root ᴹ√ES when that root was revised to have derivatives like esse “name” instead (EtyAC/ES). The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. lar “region, place” under the early root ᴱ√LAŘA [LAÐA] (QL/51).
References ✧ VT42/17; WJ/206
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| #nómion | genitive plural | ✧ WJ/206 |
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ᴹQ. #nome n. “place” (Category: Place)
References ✧ PE23/112
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| #-nomello | ablative | ✧ PE23/112 |
| -nomenna | allative | ✧ PE23/112 |
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ᴱQ. lar n. “region, place” (Category: Region, Territory)
References ✧ PME/51; QL/51
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| lar- | stem | ✧ QL/51 |
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| ᴱ√LAŘA > lar | [lað] > [laz] > [lar] | ✧ QL/51 |