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<H> HABIT haime -KHIM HABITATION imbar (Imbar was an Elvish name of the Earth as the prinicipal part of Arda; the form Ambar may be more usual and is found in LotR.) -MR:337, WJ:419, 402, LotR:1003 HAIL aiya (so in LotR; LT1:248 has aye) -LotR:747, 950 cf. Letters:385 HAIR loxe; TANGLED HAIR fasse; LOCK OF HAIR finde (defined as "a tress or plait of hair" in PM:345; LT2:341 has findl, an impossible form in mature Quenya), HEAD OF HAIR, A PERSON'S HAIR AS A WHOLE findesse -LOKH, PHAS, SPIN, PM:345 HALF-ELVEN (noun, pl) Pereldar (Sindarin Peredhil, LotR:1071) -Letters:386 HALL #marde (isolated from oromardi "lofty halls, high-halls"); ROCKHEWN HALL hrota- (artificial cave, rockhewn hall) -Nam/RGEO:66, PM:365 HALLOW aitita- -Vinyar Tengwar #32 p. 7 HALVE perya- (devide in middle) (After perya, a word perina is mentioned - it is undefined but must be the corresponding past participle, *"halved, divided in middle".) -PER HAMMER (vb) namba-; HAMMER (noun) namba -NDAM HAMS hacca (buttocks) -GL:47 HAND ma (pl. allative mannar "into...hands" is attested; the long a evidently becomes short a before a consonant cluster), quare (the latter is properly "fist", but was often used for "hand" - see FIST); HOLLOW OF HAND cambe; HAVING HANDS mavoite; HANDY, HANDED maite (skilled) (pl. maisi. When maite is the final element of names, it is translated "handed" instead of "handy", e.g. Angamaite "Iron-handed", morimaite "blackhanded") -MA3/LT2:339, FS, KWAR/Silm:429, KAB, LotR:1085 cf. Letters:425, LotR:1015/SD:68, 72, UT:460 HANDLE mahta- -MA3 HANG linga- (dangle) -LING HAPPEN - LT2:348 gives mart- "it happens" (impersonal). Perhaps read *marta- in mature Quenya, though that would clash with marta "fey, fated". HAPPY valin (LT1:272 also gives valimo, but adjectives ending in -o do not occur in mature Quenya), HAPPINESS vald- (so in LT1:272; nom. sg. must be either *val or *valde) (blessedness) -LT1:272 HARBOUR hopa (haven, bay - obsoleting copa, copas in LT1:257); HARBOURAGE hopasse -KHOP HARD nauca (ill-shapen, twisted, *small - see SMALL.) -WJ:413 HARE lapatte -GL:52 HARP (vb) nanda-; HARP (noun) nande; LITTLE HARP nandelle; HARPING (noun, not adjectival participle) nandele; HARPER nandaro, HARP-PLAYER tyalangan. (In Etym, all but the last of these words are 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 these words are written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not numen.) HARP-PLAYING salme. -NGAN, TYAL; cf. LotR:1157, LT1:265 HARSH naraca (rending, violent) -NARAK HARVEST yavie (autumn) - evidently obsoleting yavan in LT1:273. In the Calendar of Imladris, yavie was a precisely defined period of 52 days, but the word was also used without any exact definition. Note: yavie probably refers to harvest time only, not "harvest" in the sense "harvested products", though it is derived from a stem meaning "fruit". -LotR:1142, 1145 HASP tangwa (clasp) -TAK HASTE orme (wrath, violence, rushing); HASTY orna, tyelca (agile) -GOR, KHOR, PM:353 HAT tata -GL:71 HATE (vb) teve- (aorist form); LT1:258 has mokir "I hate", read *mocin in mature Quenya? HATEFUL sance; HATRED tevie, tevin -LT1:268, LT2:341 HAVE - see POSSESS. Cf also NO LONGER TO BE HAD vanwa (gone, dead, departed, lost, past, vanished) -WJ:366 HAVEN hopa (harbour, bay) londe (as in Alqualonde "Haven of the Swans", UT:417 - but elsewhere londe is glossed "entrance to harbour, road in sea") -KHOP ?HAWK fion (pl fioni, fiondi) (Tolkien's gloss was "not certainly legible; the likeliest interpretation would be 'haste', but 'hawk' is a possibility." The translation "haste" is out of the question, as this word would have no plural form. Besides, a quite different word for "haste" [orme] is known.) -PHI HE pronominal ending -ro + lengthening of the previous vowel, e.g. antavaro he will give (so in LR:63, probably *antuvaro in mature Quenya). There is also the ending -s, that covers the entire 3. person sg: "he, she, it". It is uncertain what the independent word for "he, even he" might be. LR:63 has e, a word that appears in Sindarin as well (SD:129). Does it also cover "she, it"? Cf. HIM, HIS. HEAD car (cas-), nola (round head, knoll); HEAD OF HAIR findesse (see HAIR). -KAS, NDOL, PM:345 HEAL #envinyata- (isolated from the past participle envinyanta "healed". The literal meanings are *"renew" and "renewed", cf. Aragorn's title Envinyatar "Renewer" [q.v.]) -MR:405 HEAR #hlar- (only fut hlaruva is attested) -MC:222 HEARING (adj) lasta (listening) -LAS2 HEART hon (physical heart), ore (inner mind - concerning this word, see SPIRIT) (Note: a homonym means "rising"), indo (mind, mood), elwen; -HEARTED #honda (isolated from sincahonda "flinthearted"). EYES OF HEARTSEASE (a name of the pansy) Helinyetille HEART OF FLAME Naira (a name of the Sun), -KHO-N-, LotR:1157, ID, LT1:255, LotR:1015 cf. SD:68, 72, LT1:262, MR:198 HEAT ure (The stem from which this word must be derived was struck out in Etym, but the word occurs in LotR itself, indicating that Tolkien restored the stem in question.) SMOULDERING HEAT, RED [?HEAT] (Tolkies handwriting was illegible) yulme (Note: a homonym means "drinking, carousal") -LotR:1157 cf. UR; YUL HEAVE #amorta- (only part. amortala is attested), HEAVE (of large and heavy things:) ruma- (shift, move) (part. rumala is attested) -MC:222 cf. 215, MC:223, 222 HEAVENS, THE menel (a sg word, "heaven", as opposed to its English translation), ilwe (sky). -Silm:434/MC:222 cf. 215, LT1:255 HEAVY lunga -LUG HEDGE (jagged hedge of spikes) caraxe -KARAK HEED tirin ("I watch", *"I heed", 1. pers. aorist), pa.t. tirne; fut. tiruva "shall heed" is attested; also cim-. -MC:222 cf. 214, TIR, GL:39 HEIGHT #tarie (only allative tarienna "to the height" is attested) -LotR:989 cf. Letters:308 HEIR aryon (also haryon is glossed as "heir", but this gloss is paranthetic and "prince" is given as the primary meaning. Hildinyar is translated "my heirs" in Aragorn's oath; it appears that this is actually a form of hildo "follower".) -GAR (see 3AR), LotR:1003, 1004 HELL Angamando ("Iron-prison", Morgoth's dungeon-fortress in the First Age. This is the form given in MR; Etym has Angamanda, LT1:249/252 has Angamandu/Angamandi or Eremandu "Hells of Iron". In LT1:259, Mandos is glossed "hell", but Mandos was simply the halls of the dead and not a place of torture. GL:51 also has fatanyu.) -MR:350, MBAD HELMET cassa -KAS HEM rima (edge, border), HEM OF ROBE lappa -RI, GL:52 HER 1. (object form of she) - the ending -s (also covering "it, *him". Utuvienyes [LotR:1008] is translated "I have found it", but it could probably mean "I have found her/him" as well.) Case endings may be attached to se, e.g. dative *sen "for her". 2. HER (genitive, = of her) -rya (possessive suffix, e.g. aratarya "her sublimity" [WJ:369], maryat "her hands" [Nam].) This ending covers the entire 3. pers sg and also means "his" and *"its".) -WJ:369 HERO callo (noble man). LT1:268 also has mordo "warrior, hero", but in mature Quenya mordo means "obscurity, shadow, stain". -KAL HEW *pelehta- (corrected from the actual reading pelekta-, since Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) -LT2:346 HIDE #nurta- (verbal stem isolated from the verbal noun nurtale "hiding" in Silm:120), #lom- (LT1:255 gives lomir "I hide"; this would become *lomin in mature Quenya), moru- -LT1:261 HIDING nurtale -Silm:120 HIDDEN muina (secret), halda (veiled, shadowed, shady), foina, furin/hurin (concealed); DARK OR HIDDEN tumna (low-lying, low, profound, deep) -MUY, SKAL, LT2:340, LT1:271 HIDEOUS CREATURE ulundo (deformed creature, monster) -ULUG HIGH tara (lofty, tall), oro- (in compounds: oromardi "high-halls"). The element #Ar- in Arfanyarasse (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered)". Cf. also tar- in tarquesta "high speech". -WJ:417, Nam/RGEO:66, WJ:416, TA HIGH ELVES Tarquendi; HIGH-ELVES Tareldar -TA, MC:349 HIGH ONES Aratar (sg #Arata, cf. PM:363). The Aratar are the mightiest of the Valar: Manwe, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna, Aule, Mandos, Nienna, and Orome. Aratar is also rendered "The Supreme, Exalted Ones". -Silm 32/381, WJ:402 HIGH SPEECH (= Quenya) Tarquesta -TA HILL #ambo (only allative pl. ambonnar is attested); tundo (mound), oro; ISOLATED ROUND HILL tolmen (boss of shield) -HILL-SIDE amban (upward slope) (probably obsoleting amun(d) in LT2:335) -MC:222, LT1:269, TUN, LT1:256, AM HIM - probably the ending -s (also covering "it, *her". Utuvienyes [LotR:1008] is translated "I have found it", but it could probably mean "I have found him/her" as well.) Case endings may be attached to so, e.g. dative *son "for him" HINDMOST tella (last); THE HINDMOST Teleri (the Last-comers) -TELES, Silm:421 HIS -rya (possessive suffix, e.g. coarya his house. This ending covers the entire 3. pers sg and also means "her" and *"its".) -WJ:369 HISTORY nyare (tale, saga), quenta, quentale (account), lumequentale, lumequenta (chronological account); HISTORICAL lumequentalea -NAR2 , KWET, LU HIVE nierwes -LT1:262 HOARD foa (treasure) -LT2:340 HOLE latta (pit - Note: a homonym means "strap"), assa (perforation, opening, mouth) -DAT, GAS HOLLOW (noun) unque, HOLLOW (adj) unqua, ronta, rotwa; HOLLOW OUT unca--UNUK, LotR:1157, LT2:347 HOLLOWBOLD Navarot (Nogrod, Novrod) -WJ:389 HOLLY ercasse (probably obsoleting piosenna in LT2:347) -EREK HOLY aina, aire; HOLY ONE ainu (m.), aini (f.) (angelic spirit, god); HOLY PLACE yana (fane, sanctuary) -AYAN/WJ:399, Nam, YAN HOLYDAY meryale -MBER HOME mar (also used of the "home" or native land of peoples). Short form mar as the final element of compounds: Eldamar "Elvenhome"; the vowel is also short in Mar-nu-falmar, "the Land [lit. Home] under the Waves". -Silm:408, 428 HOMESTEAD osta -LT2:336 HONEY lis (liss-) (LT1:262 gives nekte, read *nehte in mature Quenya.) HONEY-BEE nier, nion -LIS, LT1:262/GL:60 HOOD telme (covering) -TEL HOOK ampa, atsa (claw, catch); HOOKED rempa (crooked) -LotR:1157, GAT, REP HOPE (noun) estel -WJ:318 (where it is stated that this word was used in Quenya as well as in Sindarin. Here the word is defined as "'hope', sc. a temper of mind, steady, fixed in purpose, and difficult to dissuade and unlikely to fall into despair or abandon its purpose". In MR:320, estel is translated "trust".) HORDE horma (host) -LT2:341 HORN rasse ("especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains". Cf. Rasmund "horned bull" in Letters:423 [this may not be pure Quenya] and Arfanyaras, Arfanyarasse "high white-shining peak [*horn]", alternative name of Taniquetil), romba (so in Etym and one place in WJ [p. 400: romba = "horn, trumpet"] but on p. 368 roma is used for "horn", though this is glossed "trumpet-sound" in Etym), HORN OF ULMO hyalma (shell, conch), tilde (point), (horn of animal:) tarca (probably obsoleting taru in LT2); HORNED tarucca (perhaps obsoleted together with taru), THE HORNED Tilion (a name of the Moon) -RAS, WJ:403/416, ROM/WJ:401 contrast 368, SYAL, TIL, TARAK, LT2:337,347, Silm:438 HORROR - rucin is glossed "I feel fear or horror" (1. pers. aorist), constructed with "from" of the object feared (e.g. *rucin Orcollon "I fear Orcs") -WJ:415 HORSE rocco (defined as "swift horse for riding" in Letters:382), mairo; HORSEMAN roquen (rider, knight) -ROK/Letters:282, 382, GL:56, WJ:372/UT:282 HOST rimbe (crowd), horma (horde) -RIM/Letters:178, 382, LT2:341 HOSTILE cotya -KOT HOT saiwa; BLAZING HOT urin (Urin is also a name of the Sun) -LT1:248/265, LT1:271 HOUND huan (hun-); HOUND OF CHASE ronyo -KHUG (see KHUGAN), ROY HOUR lume (so translated in LotR; in Etym the gloss is simply "time". Allative lumenna is attested. Note: lume also means "darkness".) -LU, LotR:94, WJ:367 HOUSE coa (prob. the most neutral word), opele (walled house), car (card-) (building), nosse (clan, family, kin, people) (LT2:336 gives indo "house" and os(t) "house and cottage"; these words are probably obsolete - in mature Quenya indo means "heart", while osto means "city". Also indor "master of house" must be obsolete.) LIGHT OF THE HOUSE coacalina (a metaphor for the soul [fea] dwelling inside the body [hroa]) -WJ:369/MR:250, PEL(ES), KAR, NO/LT1:250, 343, MR:250 HOW manen -PM:395 HUMAN firya (lit. *"mortal"; nominal pl. Firyar is attested) -PHIR, WJ:219 HUMBLED nucumna -SD:246 HUMP tumpo; HUMPBACK cauco, HUMPED cauca (bent, crooked) -TUMPU, LT1:257 HUNT (noun), HUNTING raime (No verb "to hunt" is given in Etym, but roita- "pursue" is derived from the same stem and can probably be translated *"hunt" as well. LT1:260 has rauta- "hunt".) -ROY1 HUSBAND verno; HUSBAND AND WIFE veru (married pair) -BES HUSH quilde (rest, quiet) -GL:23
