Re: Ethandune and Andunie


Tux Wonder-Dog wrote:

Can't call myself a scholar, more of a dabbler, but Sweet's Anglo-Saxon
Reader,pg 391,
west av, westwards, west [...], in the west [...].
westan av, from the west [...] be ~ west of [...].

And besides the same word got adopted by French from Old Franconian, and by
Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan from Visigothic, so the use of "andune" to
mean "west" is Tolkien's work, and solely his alone.

Ah! So we got "west" from the A-S!!!

Very well.

Unfortunately the Oxford Word and Language Service does not accept
online queries, but I may just write them about this. In the meantime,
does anyone know the derivation and meanings of "Ethandune."

Barb

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