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Avarin http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/avarin.htm
locative ending -ssen; this must also come from primitive -m.
- Kinn-lai may come from an Avarin language closely related to the one that has kindi (above); we
note the same change kwe- > ki. Here we also have assimilation nd > nn. The last element lai is certainly not
derived from the primitive plural ending -î. Rather it must be related to Quenya lië "people", hence
"kinn-people". The stem LI, the source of Quenya lië, may have produced lai by A-infixion (well attested in
the primitive language).
- Penni is a form that is singled out as especially interesting by Tolkien. It shows the same change kw
> p as in Common Telerin (whence Sindarin and the Telerin of Aman), suggesting "that it had already
occurred among the Lindar [Teleri] before the Separation" (WJ:410). Otherwise we see the same assimilation
nd > nn as in kinn-lai, while a descendant of the primitive plural ending -î is still present, though it has
become short as in kindi and hwenti. Tolkien informs us "the form penni is cited as coming from the
'Wood-elven' speech of the Vale of Anduin".
Otherwise there is very little. The name of the Dark Elf Eöl, that cannot be analyzed (WJ:320), may be
Avarin. It is said that though the original clans were still remembered among the Avari, "there is no record of
their using the name Ñoldo [that is, any direct descendant of primitive ñgolodô] in any recognizable Avarin
form" (WJ:381).
Those who wish to engage in "fan fiction" can start constructing the Avarin languages that the words Kindi,
Cuind etc. belong to, deriving them from Tolkien's Primitive Quendian.
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