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<B> BABE lapse -LAP BACK - LT2:338 mentions a Gnomish word alm, said to mean "the broad of the back from shoulder to shoulder, back, shoulders". It is stated that the "Qenya" cognate of this Gnomish word occurs in the name Aikaldamor - i.e., #aldamo or #aldamor? But this is hardly a valid word in mature Quenya. BACK- (prefix) at-, ata- (re-, again-); THOSE WHO GO BACK Nandor (Elves that left the March from Cuivienen) -AT(AT), WJ:384 BACKWARDS nan- (prefix?) -MBAS BAD - Gnomish feg is so glossed in GL:34, and this is equated with Q faica, glossed "contemptible, mean" under SPAY. BAKE masta- -MBAS BALE OUT calpa- (draw water, scoop out) -KALPA BALL coron -KOR BALROG Valarauko (pl. Valaraukar) (so in the Silmarillion - in Etym the Quenya form of Sindarin balrog is malarauco, while LT1:250 gives Malcarauce) -Silm:35/425/439, RUK BAND nosse (army, troop) -LT2:340 BANK (esp. of river) rava -RAMBA BARK - Tolkien originally thought that parma "book" really meant "skin, bark; parchment", with "book, writings" as the secondary meaning. But in Etym parma is derived from a stem meaning "compose, put together", obsoleting the old etymology. -LT2:346, contrast PAR BASE sundo (root, root-word) (pl. #sundar, isolated from Tarmasundar in UT:166), talan (talam-) (floor, ground), talma (foundation, root); BASE-STRUCTURE sundocarme -SUD, WJ:319, TALAM, TAL, LT:343 BATTER palpa- (beat) -PALAP BAY (small and landlocked) hopa (haven, harbour) -KHOP BE The only forms of the verb "to be" in the published corpus are na "is" , nar "are", and nai "be it that" (mistranslated "maybe" in LotR). The word ea is variously translated "is", "it is", "let it be". Firiel's Song contains a word ye "is", but ye may be obsolete in mature Quenya. For "was", some writers have used ne, pl. ("were") ner. Cf. also uin and umin "I do not, am not" (1. pers. aorist), pa.t. ume. -Nam/RGEO:67, An Introduction to Elvish:5, Silm:21/391, FS, UGU/UMU BE GONE! heca! - also with pronominal affixes: sg hecat, pl hecal "you be gone!" (stand aside!) -WJ:364 BEACH falas (falass-), falasse (shore, line of surf), falas, hresta (ablative hrestallo is attested) -LT1:253, Silm:431, PHAL/LT2:339, MC:221/222/223 BEAR (vb) #col- (verb stem isolated from #colindo "bearer". Cf. mel- "to love", melindo "lover". #Col- can also be translated *"wear" [of clothes], cf. the past participle colla "borne, worn".) BEAR FRUIT yavin (which must mean *"I bear fruit", stem #yav-. Tolkien often employs the 1. person aorist when mentioning a verb in his wordlists.) -LotR:989, cf. Letters:308 and MEL, MR:385, LT1:273 BEAR (noun) morco -MOROK BEARD fanga (obsoleting vanga in GL:21; GL:34 has fange "long beard", while GL:63 gives poa. Use fanga.) -SPANAG BEARER #colindo (only attested in the pl compound cormacolindor "Ring-bearers") -LotR:989, cf. Letters:308 BEAT palpa- (batter) -PALAP BEAUTIFUL vanya (Note: a homonym means "disappear"), linda, calwa, vanima (nominal pl vanimar "beautiful ones" and partitive plural genitive vanimalion are attested) (fair, proper, right). According to MR:49, Maiar means "the Beautiful", but in Quenya this is the name of an order of spirits and cannot be used as a general adjective. BEAUTY vanesse -BAN, SLIN, LT1:254, LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308, LT1:272, MR:49 BED caima; BEDCHAMBER caimasan (?) (pl. caimasambi); BEDRIDDEN caimasse, caimassea (sick); LYING IN BED (noun) caila (sickness) -KAY, STAB BEE nier (honey-bee), nion -GL:60 BEECH feren, ferne (pl. ferni in both cases) (LT2:343 gives neldor "beech"; this word may be obsolete in mature Quenya.) -PHER BEECHEN ferinya -PHEREN BEGET nosta- (also glossed "give birth"), onta- (pa.t. one or ontane); BEGETTER #nostar (see note), ontaro (m.), ontare (f.) (parent). (In LotR, the form nostari "begetters, parents" occurs; sg #nostar. Nostari was changed from ontari in Tolkien's first draft [see SD:73], so he may have scrapped ontaro, ontare in favour of #nostar [or m. *nostaro, f. *nostare???] Did he also reject the verb onta- in favour of nosta-?) -SD:73, ONO, LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308 BEGINNING *yesse (Corrected from the actual reading esse, derived from a stem that was marked with a query by Tolkien because esse also = name. Evidence from LotR indicates that he decided to change the stem in question from ESE to *YESE, thus eliminating this homophony: In LotR:1142 we find yestare, apparently meaning *"first-day" - it is not translated, but it was the name of the first day of the year and re means "day". In Etym [stem ESE] the word for "first" was esta. So for esta "first", esse "beginning" and essea "?primary" [gloss illegible], we should evidently read *yesta, *yesse and yessea.) -ESE/ESET BEGOTTEN - see FIRST-BEGOTTEN. BEHOLD cen- (see) (future tense cenuva is attested) -MC:222 BEING eala (spirit).Pl. ealar is attested. Ealar are spirits whose natural state it is to exist without a physical body, e.g. Balrogs. -MR:165 BEING ALIVE (noun) cuile -KUY BELEGOST Turosto (Mickleburg) -WJ:389 BELERIAND Hecelmar, Heceldamar (lit. *"home of the Eglath", q.v.) This is said to be the name for Beleriand used "in the language of the loremasters of Aman". The cognate of Sindarin "Beleriand" is #Valariande; only the form Valarianden is attested (a genitive formation from an earlier "Qenya" variant; in mature Quenya it would be a dative). The latter may be the name used in Exilic Quenya. Beleriand was also called Ingolonde "Land of the Gnomes [Noldor]". -WJ:365, LR:202, NGOLOD BELL nyelle -NYEL BELLIED #cumba (isolated from sauricumba "foulbellied"). This adjective may point to *cumbo or something similar as the likely word for "belly". -SD:68, 72 BELOVED melda (dear). Cf. nessamelda, *"beloved of Nessa", a flagrant evergreen tree brought to Numenor by the Eldar. -MEL, UT:456 BELZAGAR Calmacil -UT:222 BEND #cuna- (derived from the adj. cuna "bent"; see MC:223. In menel acuna "the heavens bending" the word is used intransitively.) -MC:222/223 cf. 215 BENEATH undu (down, under) -UNU BENT cuna (curved; cuna is also used as a verbal stem, see BEND), raica (crooked, wrong), cauca (crooked, humped), sara (?) (stiff dry grass) -MC:223, RAYAK, LT1:257, STAR BERRY piucca -GL:64 (glossed "blackberry" in LT2:347) BESIDE ara, also ar- as prefix. -AR BETWEEN imbe -Nam/RGEO:67 BEYOND pella (a postposition in Quenya: Andune pella "beyond the West", elenillor pella "from beyond the stars") -Nam, MC:222 BIER tulma -LT1:270 BIG DIPPER see SICKLE OF THE VALAR. BIPED #attalya (Only pl Attalyar is attested. The word was used of the Petty-dwarves, q.v.) -WJ:389 BIRD aiwe, filit (pl filici) (Note: both aiwe and filit are stated to mean "small bird", not "bird" in general), ambale, ammale (= yellow bird), lindo (= "singer", singing bird). LT1:273 also has wilin; this may or may not be a valid word in mature Quenya. -AIWE, PHILIK, SMAL, LIN BIRTH, BIRTHDAY nosta; GIVE BIRTH nosta- (but in later sources, nosta- is glossed "beget", q.v.) -LT1:272 BITE (vb) nac- BITE (noun) nahta -NAK BITTER sara -SAG BLACK more (in compounds mori-, e.g. Moriquendi), morna, morqua; BLACKNESS more (night); BLACKHANDED morimaite, BLACKBERRY piucca (only "berry" in GL:64); BLACK FOE Moringotto (the oldest [MET] form was Moringotho) (Morgoth) -MOR, LT1:260, LotR:1015/SD:68, 72, LT2:347, MR:194 BLADE hyanda (share), (sword blade:) +russe (corruscation) -LT2:342, RUS BLAZE urya- (The stem this word is derived from was struck out in Etym. However, several words that must be derived from the same stem occur in LotR, indicating that Tolkien restored it.) BLAZING HOT urin (Urin also being a name of the Sun) -UR, LT1:271 BLESS laita- (praise) (Imperative a laita and fut #laituva are attested, the latter with pronominal endings: laituvalmet, "we shall praise [or bless] them".) BLESSED alya, almarea (prosperous, rich, abundant), herenya (wealthy, fortunate, rich), aman ("blessed, free from evil" - Aman was "chiefly used as the name of the land where the Valar dwelt." [WJ:399]. BLESSED BEING Manwe (the King of the Valar); BLESSEDNESS vald- (so in LT1:272; nom. sg. must be either *val or *valde) (happiness), "BLESSINGS", BLESSEDNESS, BLISS almie, almare; FINAL BLISS manar, mande (doom, final end, fate, fortune) -LotR:989 cf Letters:308; GAL, KHER, Letters:283, LT1:272, MAN/MANAD BLIGHT yaru (gloom) -GL:37 BLINK tihta- (peer) -MC:223 BLOCK tape (3 pers sg aorist), pa.t. tampe -TAP BLOOD serce (so according to Silm appendix; Etym has yar [yar-]) -Silm:437, YAR BLOSSOM (white) losse, ("of flowers in bunches or clusters":) *lohte (corrected from the actual reading lokte because Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya.) -LOT, LT1:258 BLOT motto -MBOTH BLUE luin, #luine (pl. luini in Nam; Etym and LT1:262 has lune), ninwa, ulban (adopted from Valarin; only used in Vanyarin Quenya), PALE BLUE helwa -Nam/LT2:340, LT1:262, LUG, WJ:399, 3EL BOAT lunte; SMALL BOAT vene (vessel, dish) -LUT, LT1:254 BODY hroa (In MR:330, Tolkien notes that hroa is "roughly but not exactly equivalent to 'body'" [as opposed to "soul"]. Hroa is also used = "physical matter"), DEAD BODY loico (corpse); BODILY sarcuva (corporeal) -MR:216, 219; MC:223, LT2:347 BOLD verya, canya BOLDNESS verie -BER, KAN BOLSTER nirwa (cushion) -NID BOND nute (knot), vere (troth, compact, oath) Pl. probably *verer, *nuter not *veri, *nuti; cf. the similar formation tyave "taste", pl tyaver. -NUT, WED BONE axo (pl axor is attested) -MC:222, 223 BOOK parma (writings); BOOK LANGUAGE (=Quenya) parmalambe -PAR/UT:219, 460, LT2:346 BORDER rena (edge, margin); rima (edge, hem) -REG, Ri BORN #nona (isolated from Apanonar, the "Afterborn") -Silm:122/381 BORNE colla (pa.p. of col- "bear") (worn). Also used as a noun = "vestment, cloak". -MR:385 BOSOM palure (surface, bosom of earth), suma (hollow cavity) -PAL, MC:223 BOSS OF SHIELD tolmen (isolated round hill) -LT1:269 BOTH yuyo -YU BOUND nauta (obliged) -NUT BOW (vb ) cawin ("I bow", 1. pers. aorist); BOW (noun) quinga, cu (also = crescent Moon), luva, cune (crescent); RAINBOW helyanwe ("sky-bridge"), Ilweran, Ilweranta (LT2:348 has iluquinga "sky-bow", but this word was obsoleted when Tolkien changed the meaning of ilu from "sky" to "universe".) BOWLEGGED quingatelco (So it is translated, but this must really be a noun: "bow-leg" [quinga + telco]. No Quenya adjectives end in -o, unless this is the only one. Read *quingatelca for "bow-legged"? Cf. one of the other words from the same source, sincahonda, changed from sincahondo in an earlier draft - but at that time Tolkien had already omitted quingatelco and hence did not change its ending: See SD:72.) -LT1:257, SD 68, 72, KWIG, KU3, LT1:256, LotR:1154, LT1:271 BOWL fion (goblet), #salpe (isolated from tanyasalpe "Bowl of Fire") -LT1:253, 292 BRANCH olwa -GOLOB BRAND yulma (Note: a homonym means "cup".) -YUL cf. Nam BREAD masta; LIFE-BREAD (= lembas) coimas (prob. *coimast-, cf. masta "bread") -MBAS, Silm:406/429 BREAK (vb) rac- (past participle racina "broken" is attested); BREAK APART terhat- (pa.t. terhante); BREAK ASUNDER hat- (pa.t. hante) -MC:223, SKAT BREATH (noun) hwesta (breeze, puff of air), sule (?) (spirit) (earlier [MET] form thule = Sule ; BREATH (vb) suya- (?); BREATHER Sulimo (?) (a title of Manwe; this is the literal meaning according to Silm:420); BREATH FORTH see EXPIRE. -SWES, THU/LotR:1157 BREEZE hwesta (breath, puff of air), GENTLE BREEZE vile; BREEZY vilin (airy) -SWES, LotR:1157, LT1:273 BRIDE indis (wife) (This word may obsolete akairis in LT1:252) -NDIS/UT:8 BRIDEGROOM ender -NDER BRIDGE yanwe (joining, isthmus), yanta (yoke) -YAT, LotR:1157 BRILLIANCE alcar, alcare (splendour, radiance), calasse (clarity); BRILLIANT alcarinqua (glorious) -AKLA-R-/RGEO:73/UT:317/WJ:369/Silm:427, GL:39 BROAD - LT2:338 gives a word aica "broad, vast", but this is probably obsoleted by aica "sharp, fell, terrible, dire" in later writings. BROAD SWORD lango (also = prow of ship), BROAD-BLADED SWORD ecet (short stabbing sword) -LAG, UT:284/432 BROKEN racina -MC:223 BROOCH tancil (pin) -TAK BROOD luvu- (lower) -LT1:259 BROOK nelle (GL :46 has wente) -NEN BROTHER toron (pl. torni) (= natural brother); otorno sworn brother, associate BROTHERHOOD onoro (of bloodkinship), otornasse (the latter is evidently the "brotherhood" of otornor, sworn brothers) -TOR, NO BROWN varne (swart, dark brown) (in compounds varni-) -BARAN BUD tuima (sprout); BUDDING see SPRING-TIME. -TUY, LT1:269 BUFFET taran, tarambo -LT2:337 BUILD carin ("I make, build", 1. pers. aorist - according to FS and SD:246 the past tense is care, but Etym has carne; writers should probably use the latter (not to be confused with the adjective carne "red". Past participle #carna *"built, made" is attested in Vincarna *"newly-made" in MR:305.) BUILDING car (card-) (house), ampano (= especially building of wood, wooden hall), ataque (construction); BUILDER samno (?) (carpenter, wright) -KAR, PAN, TAK, STAB BULL tarucco, tarunco -LT2:347 BUNCHES (of flowers) see BLOSSOM. BURDENSOME lumna (lying heavy, oppressive, ominous) -DUB BURLY polda (strong) -POL BU RN usta- (transitive, e.g. *Feanaro ustane i ciryar "Feanor burnt the ships"), urya- (intransitive, e.g. *i ciryar uryaner "the ships were burning") -LT1:271 BUSH tussa -TUS BUT nan (so in Namarie and Firiel's Song; Etym has na, nan. Na clashes with na "is"); er (only, one, alone, but, still); BUT YET a-nanta, ananta (and yet) -NDAN, LT1:269, Nam/FS BUTTERFLY wilwarin (wilwarind-) -WIL/MC:222, 223/LT1:273 BUTTOCKS hacca (hams) -GL:47 -BY-mas (final element in place-names, see -TON) -LT1:250
