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<G> GALADRIEL Altariel (Altariell-; gen. Altariello is attested. Altariel is the form used in Noldorin Quenya, Galadriel's own mother-tongue; the Telerin form is Alatariel [UT:266]. According to PM:347 [that gives Altariel with no long a] the true Quenya equivalent of the Telerin form would have been Naltariel, but this form was apparently not used.) -Silm:433, RGEO:66 GAME tyalie (sport, play) -TYAL/LT1:260 GANDALF Olorin (his name in Valinor, derived from a stem meaning "dream" - not an actual translation of "Gandalf", meaning "Elf of the Wand", a name he was given by people who did not know that he was actually a Maia.) -LotR:391, UT:396 cf. 391 GAOL #mando (isolated from Angamando "Iron-Gaol"; mando is also defined as "safe keeping"). -MR:350 GAP fase (gulf) -GL:36 GARLAND ria (wreathe); MAIDEN CROWNED WITH A FESTIVAL GARLAND rielle -PM:347 GASH cirisse (slash), hyatse (cleft) -KIRIS, SYAD GATE ando; GREAT GATE andon (pl andondi). (LT1:264 has osto "the gates of the Sun" and Ostor "East", but in mature Quenya osto means "town".) -AD, LotR:1157, LT1:264 GATHER hosta- (collect, assemble); GATHERING (of three or more coming from different directions) yomenie (meeting) -MC:223, WJ:407 GENEROUS faila (fair-minded, just) -PM:352 GENTLE moica (soft), GENTLE BREEZE vile -GL:58, LT1:273 GET LOW (of the Sun) numeta-, numenda- -LT1:263 GERM erde (seed. Note: a homonym means "person".) -ERED GESTURE-CODE hwerme -WJ:395 GIANT norsa (?) (see also MONSTER) -NOROTH GIFT anna; GIVE anta- (present); GIVER ante (f), anto (m) (the latter word from Etym is probably obsoleted by anto "mouth" in LotR:1157 - an alternative word for "[male] giver" might be *antaro). LAND OF GIFT (a name of Numenor) Andor (haplology of Annandor), DEAR GIFT (the meaning of Melian's name) Melyanna -ANA, LotR:1157, Silm:313, 434 GIMILZOR Telemnar -UT:223 GIMLET teret (auger) -LT1:255 GIRDLE #lesta (isolated from #Lestanore; see DORIATH. #Lesta is the cognate of Sindarin lest as in Lest [or List] Melian "the Girdle of Melian" [WJ:228]. Note: #lesta also means "measure".) -WJ:369, Silm:390 GIRL wen (pl. wendi) (maid) -LT1:271 GIVE anta- -ANA GIVE BIRTH nosta- (but in later sources, nost a- is glossed "beget") -LT1:272 GIVEN (OR ADDED) NAME anesse (pl anessi is attested. This word encompasses both "after-names" and "mother-names".) -MR:217 GLAMHOTH Sancossi (see GOBLIN) -LT2:341 GLASS hyelle; LITTLE GLASS lipil. Cf. also virin, "a magic glassy substance of great lucency used in fashioning the Moon" -KHYEL, LT1:258, LT2:339 GLAURUNG see GLORUND GLEAM (WHITE) ilca- (part. ilcala is attested) -MC:223 GLINT (vb) tine (pres 3. pers sg); GLINT (noun) tinde, wintil; GLINTING tinda (silver) -TIN, LT1:261 GLITTER mirilya-; GLITTERING rilya (brilliance); GLITTERING LIGHT rilma; GLITTERING REFLECTION nalta (radiance - alata in Silm:433 is the Telerin form. In PM:347, nalta is spelt with initial n, that is, ng. Initial ng had become n in Third Age Quenya, and I follow the system of LotR and transcribe it accordingly. But if this word is written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not numen.) -MBIRIL, RIL, PM:347 GLOBE coron; GLOBED corna (round) -KOR GLOOM ungwe, lumbe (shadow); GLOOMY morna (black, dark, sombre), huine (darkness, shadow), lome (night, twilight, darkness, dusk), yaru; CHILD OF GLOOM lomear (probably not a valid word in mature Quenya) -UNG, LUM, GL:37, LT1:255, Silm:431 GLORIOUS alcarinqua (radiant) (The shorter form alcarin is attested as a title of king Atanatar II. Cf. also Alcarinque, a name of Jupiter.) -AKLA-R-, WJ:412, RGEO:73/LotR:1075, Silm:55 GLORUND, GLORUNN Laurundo, Undolaure (Tolkien later changed Glorund to Glaurung. Read *Laurungo, *Ungolaure in Quenya?) -LT2:341 GLORY alcar, alcare (splendour, brilliance) -AKLA-R-/RGEO:73/ UT:317/WJ:369/Silm:427 GNOME (only = wise one, Noldo) Noldo (spelt Ngoldo in tengwar writing, reflecting the earlier pronounciation); pl. Noldor is attested. GNOMISH (general adjective:) Noldorinwa, (Gnomish language:) Noldorin, GNOME-LAND Noldomar -LT1:262, Silm:61, LotR:1157 GO lelya- or linna- (pa.t. lende in both cases) (proceed, travel); vanya- (pa.t. vanne) (depart, disappear), GO ROUND pel- (revolve, return); GO ATHWART tara- (cross); GO AWAY auta- (leave, pass); pa.t. oante, oantie (in the physical sense "went away [to another place]", vane ("the most frequently used past [tense]" - less "physical" than oante, rather meaning to be lost or to disappear), also anwe (this pa.t. was "only found in archaic language"), perf. avanie (pl avanier is attested); perf. vanie with no augment may occur in verse. GONE vanwa (departed, vanished, dead, lost, past and over, no longer to be had) BE GONE! heca! - also with pronominal affixes: sg hecat, pl hecal "you be gone!" (stand aside!) -WJ:363, LED, PEL, LT2:347, WAN, Nam, WJ:364, 366 GOAT - she-goat: nyeni -LT1:262 GOBLET sulo, fion -SUG (see SUK), LT1:253 GOBLIN (Orc) urco (pl urqui) or orco (pl. orqui or orcor); THE GOBLINS Sancossi (sance "hateful" + hossi "armies", said to be the Quenya equivalent of Sindarin Glamhoth) -OROK, LT2:202/MR:74/WJ:390, LT2:341 GOD Eru ("The One, He that is Alone", a proper name that can hardly be used as a common noun meaning "god" in general. Eru obsoletes Enu in LT2:343), Iluvatar "Father of All", Ainatar *"Holy-Father" (titles of God), PAGAN GOD ainu, PAGAN GODDESS aini (angelic spirit, holy one). (As Christopher Tolkien notes, the Ainur are of course not "pagan" to the people of Middle-earth. In Etym and Silm, Ainu/Aini is capitalized.) -Silm:15/396/431, LT1:248 cf. AYAN and Silm:426 GOLD (the metal) malta (so in LotR - Etym has malda [stem SMAL], but cf. smalta mentioned under LAWAR); GOLD laure (= "not the metal but the colour, what we should call golden light", Letters:308, "of light and colour, not of the metal", Silm:433, "not a metallic word. It was applied to those things which we often call 'golden' though they do not much resemble metallic gold: golden light, especially sunlight", RGEO:70, "a word for golden light or colour, never used for the metal", PM:353, "light of the golden Tree Laurelin", LR:368; a "mystic name" of gold, LT1:255 [no doubt an obsolete notion]; in LT1:258 and LT2:341 the gloss is simply "gold".) RED GOLD +cullo (obsoleting culu in LT2:341? In LT1:255 culu is said to be a poetic word for "gold", but also used mythically as a name of all red and yellow metals), GOLDEN laurea (pl laurie is attested; LT1:258 has laurina), GOLDEN-RED culda, culina (flame-coloured); (cf. Silm. Appendix: "cul- 'golden-red' in Culurien") -LotR:1157/SMAL, Letters:308/RGEO:70/LAWAR, KUL, RGEO:70/Nam, Silm:429 GONDOLIN Ondolinde ("Stone Song", so in Silm:149, 415; LT1:254 gives Ondolinda, changed from Ondolin) -LT1:254 GONE vanwa (departed, lost, past) -WAN, Nam GONG tombo -LT1:269 GOOD (of things) mara (fit , useful), GOOD (morally good) mane; GOODBYE mara mesta -MAG (see MA3), LT1:260, Arct GOODS armar (sg #arma if there is a sg) -3AR GOOSE van, wan (pl. vani is given, but seems perfectly regular) -WA-N- GORE nasta (spearhead, point, triangle), nehte (spearhead, narrow promontory, wedge), mear (from a root possibly meaning "ooze") -SNAS, UT:282, LT1:260 GORGE cilya (pass between hills, cleft) (so in Etym, but cf. #cirya in the name Calacirya "Pass of Light" [gen. Calaciryo in Namarie] - though this clashes with cirya "ship". An early version of Namarie actually had Calacilyo, not Calaciryo; see An Introduction to Elvish p. 5) -KIL GORTHAUR Sauron (?) -Silm:418 cf. THUS GOTHMOG Cosomot (prob. *Cosomoc-, cf the alternative form Cosomoco) -LT1:258 GOVERN turin ("I...govern", 1. pers. aorist), pa.t. turne (wield, control). LT1:273 has vard- "rule, govern", but this is hardly a valid word in mature Quenya. -TUR GOVERNANCE heren (fortune) -KHER GOVERNOR cano (see COMMANDER), (governor, chieftain, commander) -PM:345 GRADE #tyelle (only pl tyeller is attested - note irregular plural instead of the expected form **tyelli) -LotR:1153 GRAMMAR tengwesta (system or code of signs) -TEK cf. WJ:394 GRANDCHILD indyo (descendant) (Indyo looks like Vanyarin Quenya; the combination ndy became ny in Noldorin Quenya [see MIDDLE]. The Noldor likely used the form *inyo.) -NGYO(N) GRANT lav- (yield, allow) -DAB GRASP mapa- (seize) This word was struck out in one of Tolkien's earlier word-lists, but in Etym it was restored. -MAP, LT2:339 GRASS salque, (stiff and dry:) sara (?) (bent) -SALAK, STAR GREAT velice (possibly obsolete in mature Quenya: In LT1:254 velice is said to correspond to Gnomish beleg, but according to LR:352 the stem from which beleg is derived is "not found in Q[uenya]"). GREAT (in size) alta (large) (The form alat- is used in compounds when the next word has an initial vowel, as in Alataire. Tolkien's gloss of alta, alat- was actually illegible, and I give the root meaning of the stem ALAT. The meaning of the Quenya word cannot differ too widely from it, for Alataire is said to correspond to "Noldorin" Belegoer [mature Sindarin Belegaer], The Great Sea.) -LT1:254, ALAT cf. BEL, cf. Silm:428 GREAT BEAR see SICKLE OF THE VALAR. GREAT LONGING mavoine -LT2:345 GREAT NUMBER - in a very great number: uvea (abundance) -UB GREAT QUANTITY uve (abundance) -UB GREAT WOOD taure (forest) -TAWAR GREED milme; GREEDY milca -MIL-IK GREEN laiqu a (so in Etym - Letters:282 has laica, meaning something wholly different ["keen, piercing"] in LT2:337), ezel, ezella (adopted from Valarin; only used in Vanyarin Quenya), GREEN-ELVES Laiquendi (probably a haplology of *Laiquaquendi, this word was not much used according to WJ), wenya (yellow-green, fresh); GREENNESS wen, laiquasse (freshness, youth) -LAYAK/LT1:267, WJ:399, GWEN, WJ:385, LT1:267 GREY #mista (isolated from lassemista "leaf-grey"), hiswa, sinda (?) (WJ has sinde "pale or silvery grey", but sinda is given in Silm:438 and the words sindanoriello "from a grey land", Sindacollo "Grey-cloak" and Sindar "Grey-Elves, *Grey Ones" all point to sinda as the Quenya word for "grey".) GREY-ELVES Sindar (?) (sg. Sinda), less commonly Sindeldi (sg Sindel); GREY-CLOAK Sindacollo, Singollo (?) (so in Silm:421; MR:217 has Sindicollo); GREY-ELVEN sindarinwa (adj), Sindarin (= Grey-Elven language) (?) -LotR:505 cf. Letters:224, KHIS, LotR:1171, Silm:438, THIN/WJ:384, Nam, Silm:419, WJ:384, LotR:1157, 1161 GRIEF nyere (sorrow). Pl. probably *nyerer not *nyeri; cf. the similar formation tyave "taste" pl. tyaver. The noun nyere points to a verbal stem *nyer- "grieve". -GL:60/LT1:261 GROT (small) rotto (tunnel) -PM:365 GROUND talan (pl talami) (floor) -TALAM GROW FAT tiuya- -TIW GROWL (vb) yarra- (snarl), (of dogs:) nuru- (grumble); GROWL (noun) nur (complaint) -MC:223, LT1:263 GRUMBLE (vb) nurru- (murmur), nuru- (growl [of dogs]). (These may simply be two forms of the same word. Nurru- is by far the later [TLT] form.) GRUMBLING (adj) nurrua -MC:223, LT1:263 GUARD - use the word glossed "watch, heed", q.v. Cf. LT1:258. For "guard" as a noun, #tirno "watcher" may be isolated from halatirno (see FISHWATCHER) GUESS (vb) intya-; GUESS (noun) intya (supposition, idea) GULF yawe (cleft, ravine), fase (gap) -YAG, GL:36 GULL maiwe -MIW GYRATE hwinya- (eddy, swirl) -SWIN
