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<D> DAERON see DAIRON DAGGER sicil (knife), naica -SIK, GL:37 DAIRON Sairon -GL:29 (called Daeron in the published Silmarillion) DALE nal, nalle (dell); DALE-SPRITES tavar (pl. tavarni) -LT1:261, LT1:267 DAMP ringa (chilly, cold) -LT1:265 DANCE (vb) lilta- -LILT DANGLE linga- -LING DARE verya- (cf. BOLD) -BER DARK (adj.) morna (gloomy, sombre, black), nulla (dusky, obscure), lona (Note: a homonym means "island"), lurea (overcast), DARK OR HIDDEN tumna (low-lying, low, profound, deep) DARK (noun), hui (fog, murk, night); DARK, DARKNESS mornie, more (blackness, night), mor, lume (Note: lume also means "hour, time"), lome (night, twilight, gloom), huine (shadow, gloom); DARK ELVES Moriquendi, Morimor (Lomearni in LT1:259 is hardly a valid word in mature Quenya); DARK ONE (=Morgoth) morion; DARK WEATHER lure; DARK LOWERING CLOUD lumbo (pl. lumbor is attested); DARK VALE tumbo (deep valley) -Letters:382, NDUL, DO3, LT1:259, LT1:271, LT1:253, MOR, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308, Silm:431, MC:222 cf. 215, WJ:361/Silm:388, Nam/RGEO:67, FS, LT1:259, 269 DAUGHTER yende, yen, -iel (suffix, e.g. Uineniel "daughter of Uinen" [UT:182]; this suffix may obsolete the earlier [TLT] ending -wen, mentioned in LT1:271). The stem YEL, from which -iel must be derived, was removed from Etym. However, the UT example just mentioned is from a later text, indicating that Tolkien restored -iel. Perhaps yelde was restored as the independent word for "daughter" at the same time and is to be preferred to yende, yen. Distinguish -riel in Altariel (Galadriel), which does not mean "daughter" and becomes -riell- before an ending. -YO, YEL, 182/469 DAWN ara (obsoleting ore in LT1:264; this word means "rising" or "heart" in mature Quenya), +amaurea (early day) -AR1 , MC:223 DAY aure (sunlight; Etym gives are), arya (= 12 hours), re (= 24 hours, counted from sunset to sunset), sana (= 24 hours), DAYTIME arie, EARLY DAY +amaurea (dawn), DAYLIGHT - LT1:254 gives calma, but this word means "lamp" in LotR. LAST DAY OF YEAR quantien, DAYSPRING tuile -AR1, Silm:229/234/439, LotR:1141, LT1:250, MC:223, YEN DEAD firin (= dead by natural cause), qualin (related to qualme "agony, death" and probably has darker connotations than firin), vanwa (departed, lost, past, gone, vanished, no longer to be had), hessa (withered). DEAD BODY loico (corpse) -KWAL, PHIR, MC:223, LT1:255, WJ:366 DEAR melda (beloved), melin, moina (familiar), #melya (isolated from Melyanna "dear gift", Melian's Quenya name), valda (worth, worthy). Cf. also the "suffix of endearment" -ya mentioned in UT:418: Anardilya *"dear Anardil" (UT:174). -MEL, MOY, Silm:434, GL:23 DEATH qualme, unquale (agony), nuru (Nuru = Mandos), faire (natural death [as act]) (Note: faire also means "radiance" and "phantom", and even [in LT1:250] "free"), urdu -KWAL/LT1:264, NGUR, PHIR, LT2:342 DECLIVITY pende (downslape, slope) -PEN DEEP tumna (low-lying, low, profound, dark or hidden), nura; DEEP VALLEY tumbo (dark vale) -NU, TUB DEFORMED CREATURE ulundo (hideous creature, monster) -ULUG DELL nal, nalle (dale) -LT1:261 DEMON rauko (pl. #raukar, isolated from Valaraukar "Balrogs". LT1:250 gives arauke; WJ:415 has rauko and arauko, defined as "a powerful, hostile, and terrible creature".) See also ORC. -RUK, Silm:436, WJ:415 DENETHOR Nanisaro (?) -LR:188 DENTAL SERIES tincotema (t-series) -LotR:1154 DENY lala- (Note: a homonym means "laugh".) -LA DEPART vanya- (pa.t. vanne). Lende pa.t. of lelya/linna "go" is also glossed as "departed". DEPARTED (adj) vanwa (gone, vanished, lost, past, no longer to be had, dead) -WAN, LED, WJ:366, Nam DESCENDANT indyo (grandchild) (Indyo looks like Vanyarin Quenya; the combination ndy became ny in Noldorin Quenya. The Noldor likely used the form *inyo.) MALE DESCENDANT yondo (son) (In LT2:344, it is said that yondo usually meant "(great) grandson", but in mature Quenya it simply means "son".) -NGYO(N) DESERT erume (cf. Eruman a desert north-east of Valinor) -ERE DESERTED erda (solitary) -LT1:269 DESIRE (vb) mere (3. pers. sg. aorist; stem #mer-, pa.t. merne) (want, wish); DESIRE (noun) ire, milme (greed). (Note: ire also means "when". The stem YES yields a word yesta "desire", but this clashes with the corrected/updated form of esta - see FIRST.) DESIREABLE irima (loveable), DESIRER Irmo (name of a Vala) -MER, ID, MIL-IK, YES, WJ:403 DESTINE martya-; DESTINY maranwe -MBARAT DETERMINANT VOWEL sundoma (lit. *"base-vowel, root-vowel". Christopher Tolkien notes: "Very briefly indeed, the Quendian consonantal base or sundo was characterized by a 'determinant vowel' or sundoma: thus the sundo KAT has a medial sundoma 'A', and TALAT has the sundoma repeated. In derivative forms the sundoma might be placed before the first consonant, e.g. ATALAT.") -WJ:319 DEVICE tanwe (craft, thing made, construction) -TAN DEVISE auta- (originate, invent) -GAWA DEW rosse (fine rain, spray), rin. DEWY nite (moist) -ROS/Letters:282, LT1:265, NEI DEXTEROUS formaite (right-handed) -PHOR DIACRITIC tehta (mark [in writing], sign) (In LotR:1155, the word is applied to the supralinear vowel-marks of Feanorian writing, and pl. tehtar is attested.) -TEK, LotR:1155 DIALECT - Tolkien notes that the word lambe was originally "nearer to our 'dialect' than to 'language', but later when the Eldar became aware of other tongues, not intelligible without study, lambe naturally became applied to the seperate languages of any people or region." Thus, lambe can hardly be used for "dialect" in Exilic Quenya. -WJ:394 DICTUM eques (pl. equessi) (proverbial dictum, quotation, saying) -WJ:392 DIE fir- (fade) -MC:223 DIPHTONG #samna (only pl samnar is attested. Distinct in Tengwar spelling from samna "wooden post", that is spelt with initial sule instead of silme.) -SAM DIM TO SEE neca (vague, faint) (Pl nece is attested) -MC:223, 222 DIRE aica (fell, terrible, sharp) -PM:347 DIRECTION tie (course, line, pathway, road) -TE3/RGEO:67 DIRTY vara (soiled) -WA3 DISAPPEAR vanya- (pa.t. vanne. Note: a homonym of vanya means "beautiful") (go, depart) -WAN DISCOLOURED purea (smeared) -MC:223 DISEMBODIED SPIRIT see SPIRIT DISGUST - feel disgust at feuya- -PHEW DISH vene (small boat, vessel) -LT1:254 DISORDERED rucina (confused, shattered) -MC:223 DIVIDE IN MIDDLE perya- (halve) (After perya-, a word perina is mentioned; it is undefined but must be the corresponding past participle: *"divided in middle, halved".) -PER DIVINE valaina (= "of or belonging to the Valar", probably not to be used with reference to the One who is above them); DIVINITY valasse -BAL DO NOT uin, umin ("I do not", 1. pers. aorist) (pa.t. ume) (also = "am not" - see BE); DO NOT! (imperative) va! (also = I will not); DON'T ava, ava; DON'T DO IT! ava care! -UGU/UMU, WJ:371 DOER tyaro (actor, agent) -KYAR DOG huo -KHUG DOME telluma (pl. tellumar is attested) (copula), coromindo (cupola) -Nam/WJ:399, KOR DON'T ava, ava; DON'T DO IT! ava care! -WJ:371 DOOM manar, mande (final end, fate, fortune, final bliss); umbar- (umbart-) (fate) In the story of Turin Turambar, it seems that ambar means "doom": Turambar is said to mean "Master of Doom", and Nienor even uses the word in the instrumental case: ambartanen "by doom". Similarly, LT2:348 gives ambar "Fate". But in Etym, ambar means "earth", and LotR Appendix E confirms that "fate" is umbar. DOOM RING Mahanaxar (a foreign word in Quenya, adopted and adapted from Valarin.) -MAN/MANAD, MBARAT, Silm:261, 269, LotR:1157, WJ:399 DORIATH #Lestanore (only gen. Lestanoreo is attested) -WJ:369 DORLOMIN Lominore -WJ:145 DOT pica (small spot), tixe (tiny mark, point), amatixe, nuntixe (points over and under the line of writing respectively) -PIK, TIK DOUBLE (prob. adj) atwa, tanta; DOUBLE (vb) tatya- (repeat). (Note: tatya also means "second".) -AT(AT), TATA DOUG maxe -MASAG DOVE cu, cua (perhaps m. and f. respectively) -KU DOWN undu (under, beneath); DOWN-FALL atalante, atalantie (collapse); DOWN-FALLEN atalantea (pl atalantie is attested) (ruinous); DOWN BELOW (adv.) nun (underneath); "DOWN-LICK" (i.e., cover completely) #undulav- (only pa.t. undulave is attested) -UNU, NU, MC:222, 223/Letters:347, RGEO:67/Nam DOWNSLOPE pende (slope, declivity) -PEN/PENED DRAGON loke (serpent, snake; "so do the Eldar name the worms of Melko[r]", LT2:85), anguloke, fenume; WINGED DRAGON ramaloke; FIRE-DRAGON uruloke (pl. Uruloki is attested in Silm:138, there capitalized); SPARK-DRAGON fealoke; FISH-DRAGON lingwiloke (sea-serpent) -LOK; cf. ANGWA, LT2:341, RAM, UR, PHAY, LIW DRAKE (LT2:340) see DRAGON DRAUGHT #yulda (only pl. yuldar is attested), suhto -Nam, SUK DRAW tucin ("I draw", 1. pers. aorist); DRAW WATER calpa- (bale out, scoop out); DRAWING #halme (isolated from Turuhalme "Log-drawing") -KALPA, LotR:270 DREAD aista- -GAYAS DREAM (noun) olor, olore, lor; DREAMY olosta, olorea -LOS, LT1:259, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308, UT:396 DRINK (vb) sucin ("I drink", 1. pers. aorist); DRINK OF THE VALAR limpe (so glossed under LIP; "drink of the fairies" in LT1:258) or miruvore (LT1:261); DRINKING yulme (carousal) (Note: a homonym means "smouldering heat"); DRINKING-VESSEL yulma (cup), sungwa. -SUK, WJ:416/Nam DRIP lipte- -LT1:258 DROP (noun) limba; LITTLE DROP lipte -LIB, LT1:258 DROWNED quorin (choked) -LT1:264 DROWSY lorda (slumbrous) -LT1:259 DRU ru (wose), DRUADAN Ruatan (pl. Ruatani is given but seems perfectly regular) -UT:385 DRY (prob. adj not vb) parca -PARAK DRYAD tavaro, tavaron (m.), tavaril (f.), nandin (further defined as "fay of the country") -TAWAR, LT1:261 DUILIN Tulindo; HOUSE OF DUILIN Nosse Tuilinda (Tuilinda must be an adjectival form of Tuilindo) -LT2:338 DUNEDAIN Nunatani -WJ:386 DUSK histe (also hise, but this clashes with a word meaning "fog, mist"), lome (night, gloom, darkness, twilight) -LT1:255 DUSKY nulla (dark, obscure) -NDUL DUST asto -AS-AT DWARF Nauco (pl. Naucor is attested; LT1:261 gives nauca instead of nauco), Norno (Naucalie, Nornalie = the whole people of the Dwarves) Casar (pl. Casari or Casari; partitive plural Casalli; the whole people of the Dwarves being called Casallie. According to WJ, Casar - Quenyaized form of Dwarvish Khazad - "was the word most commonly used in Quenya for the Dwarves". Nauco "stunted one" and norno "thrawn one" are less polite words for "dwarf"; yet norno is stated to be "the more friendly term". But the Dwarves themselves would definitely prefer Casar.) PETTY-DWARVES Picinaucor, Pitya-naucor (lit. *"small dwarves"), Attalyar (lit. "Bipeds"). DWARROWVAULT Casarrondo (Khazad-dum) -NAUK, WJ:388, 389 DWELLER mardo, DWELLING (noun) mar (mas-) (home), DWELLING (adj) #farne (a pl form? Sg farna? Only attested in the compound orofarne "mountain-dwelling". Note: farne is also the pa.t. of farya- "suffice"); DWELLING-PLACE nore (land, region where certain people live, nation, native land, family); DWELLING UNDERGROUND hrota (artificial cave, rockhewn hall) -LT1:251, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224, NDOR, PM:365 DWINDLE pica (part. picala is attested) (lessen) -MC:223, 222
