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Originally Posted by Urwen
And emmel means 'mother', suprise.  |
Now that's an interesting word. Per Ardalambion, it's a variant spelling of an archaic poetic Sindarin word (the common word being
naneth). It looks like a cognate to Quenya
amillė of the same meaning, so why did Sindarin adopt an entirely different word?
Actually,
naneth seems to be a Noldorin neologism, while Sindarin, Quenya, Ilkorin, Qenya, and Gnomish all use variants on amil/emil. But the Hive Mind insists on
naneth as the common noun...
Tolkien fan-linguistics is weird, basically.
hS