Appendix:Sindarin/Balan

Etymology
Modified from two words, Gwala and Ban, in Tolkien’s earlier conception of the language (‘Gnomish’). Diegetically explained as inherited from Primitive Elvish *Bala, with the final perhaps added by analogy from inflected or derived forms, and so cognate to 🇨🇬.

Tolkien vacillated on the question of whether this word was to exist at all or was better abandoned in favor of.

Proper Noun

 * 1) Vala