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<L> LABIALS parmatema (p-series); LABIALIZED SERIES quessetema -LotR:1154 LABERNUM Lindelokte (singing cluster). (So in LT1:258, but Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya. Read *Lindelohte?) -LT1:258 LABOUR (vb) mota- (toil) -MO LADY heri -KHER, LT1:272 (GL:45 has quimelle) LAKE ailin (pool) (LT2:339 also has ailo); ringe (cold lake, pool [in mountains]) (Note: ringe is also an adjective meaning "cold") -AY/LT2:339, RINGI LAMENT (vb) naina-, nyena-; LAMENT (noun) nainie, naire -NAY, LT1:262, RGEO:66 LAMP calma (light) -KAL/LotR:1157 LAND nore (dwelling-place, race, country, region where certain people live, nation, native land, family), nor (meaning '"'land' as opposed to water or sea", WJ:413). In compounds #-ndor (when the first part of the compound end in a vowel, e.g. Valandor "Vala-land", alternative form of Valinor), or -nor, -dor (the latter can only occur when the first part of the compound ends in -l, -r, or -n; in other combinations d cannot occur in Noldorin Quenya). Cf. also lona (remote land difficult to reach, island. Note: a homonym means "dark"); WESTLAND Numenor, Numenore (Westernesse); LAND OF GIFT (a name of Numenor) Andor (< *Annandor, see GIFT), LAND OF THE WEST Numendor -NDOR/NO/Silm:430/ WJ:413, LONO, Silm:414, 313, 430 LANGUAGE quetil (tongue), lambe (tongue. The latter was "the usual word, in non-technical use, for 'language'." (WJ:394) Only the Loremasters used the technical term tengwesta "system or code of signs" instead; this word is also glossed "grammar".) LANGUAGE (as an abstract, the ability to speak or the "art" of making speech) tengwestie. LANGUAGE OF THE VALAR Lambe Valarinwa (lit. *"Valarin language"), LANGUAGE OF THE ELDAR Eldarissa (the latter may not be a valid word in mature Quenya) -KWET, WJ:394, 397, LT2:339 LARCH fine -SPIN LARGE alta, alat- (great in size) (Tolkien's definition of this word was actually illegible, but see GREAT), uvea (very large, abundant, in a very great number), ura -ALAT, UB, UR LARK lirulin (prob. *lirulind-, cf. lindo "singing bird") -MR:238/252, LIN2 LAST tella (hindmost), telda (final), metima (final, ultimate), telwa (late), LAST YEAR yenya; LAST DAY OF YEAR quantien, THE LAST-COMERS Teleri (the Hindmost) -TELES, WJ:411, MC:222 cf. 215, LT1:267, YEN, Silm:421 LASTING QUALITY voronwie (endurance) -BORON LATE telwa (last) -LT1:267 LAUGH lala- (Note: a homonym means "deny".) -PM:359 cf. 343 LAW sanye (?) (rule), axan (rule, commandment); LAW-ABIDING sanya (?) (normal, regular) -STAN, WJ:399 LAWN palis (sward) -LT1:264 LAY lirilla (song) -LT1:258 LEAD (the metal) canu, LEADEN canuva -LT1:268 LEAF lasse (pl. lassi is attested); HAVING MANY LEAVES lillassea (pl lillassie is attested); COLLECTION OF LEAVES olassie (foliage); PUT FORTH LEAVES OR FLOWERS *lohta- (corrected from the actual reading lokta because Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) (sprout). LEAF-SHAPED lassecanta; LEAF-FALL lasselanta (autumn or the beginning of winter; see also FADING); LEAF-GREY lassemista -LAS1, Nam, LT1:254, MC:222, 223, Letters:282, LT1:258, KAT, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224 LEAGUE lar (basic meaning "pause" - in marches a brief halt was made for each league). A lar was defined as five thousand rangar; see YARD. A ranga was approximately 38 inches, so a lar was "5277 yards, two feet and four inches [ca. 4826 m], supposing the equivalence to be exact" - close enough to our league of 5280 yards to justify this translation. -UT:285 LEANING talta (sloping, tilted) -TALAT LEAP halta-; LEAPING haloite (pl. haloisi is attested) -LT1:254 LEARNED istima (wise, having knowledge), nola (wise). (In Etym, the latter word 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. Cf. also the spelling of the related word nole in Silm:432. But if this word is written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not numen.) LEARNED MAN istyar (scholar) -IS, NGOL LEAVE (vb) auta- (go away, pass), pa.t. oante, oantie (in the physical sense "went away [to another place]") or vane ("the most frequently used past [tense]" - less "physical" than oante, meaning "disappeared" rather than "went away"), perf. avanie (pl avanier is attested); perf. vanie with no augment may occur in verse. For "leave", Etym also has lesta, pa.t. lende; this is also the past tense of "go". The stem from which lesta- is derived was "replaced" by another. Lesta has a wholly different meaning in later writings; see GIRDLE, MEASURE. LEAVE OUT hehta- (pa.t. hehtane is given but seems perfectly regular) (put aside, exclude, abandon, forsake) -WJ:366, ELED LEAVE (noun) - with leave of: leneme (+ genitive) LEFT hyarya; LEFT-HANDED hyarmaite LEG telco (pl. telqui) (stem) -TELEK LEGENDARIUM OF THE FATHERS OF MEN Atanatarion (lit. simply "of the Fathers of Men") -MR:373 LEGOLAS Laiqualasse -LT1:267 LEMBAS coimas (life-bread) (prob. coimast-, cf. masta "bread") (life-bread) -Silm:406/429 LENGTHENED taina (extended); LENGTHENING taile (extension) -TAY -LESS -vilte, -valta (evidently a suffix used to derive adjectives like "homeless" = *marvilte?) -GL:23 LESSEN pica (part. #picala is attested) (dwindle) -MC:223, 222 LETTER tengwa (pl. tengwar is attested; this word was used primarily of the Feanorian letters. However, the term "Tengwar of Rumil" occurring in LotR:1151 seems to indicate that the word tengwa can indeed be used of a letter of any kind, not only the Feanorian letters. In non-technical use tengwa may also be translated "consonant" [q.v.]. It is uncertain whether tengwa "letter" can be used in the sense mail, text sent in the post; the primary meaning is clearly "character, a single symbol in writing".) sarat (pl. sarati is attested) - an older [MET] word Tolkien notes was used of "a 'letter' or any individual significant mark", used of the Rumilian letters after the invention of the Feanorian Tengwar (but cf. the term "Tengwar of Rumil" mentioned above). -TEK, WJ:396, LotR:1151 LICK salpa- (sup, sip), lavin ("I lick", 1. pers. aorist; past tense #lave is attested in the word undulave "downlicked" in Nam); LICK (frequentatively) lapsa- -SALAP cf. LT1:266, DAB/Nam LIE (noun, = untruth) furu -GL:36 LIE (vb, not "tell a lie" but "lie [horisontally]") caita-; LIE HEAVY lumna- (Note: this is also an adjective meaning "lying heavy") -Nam/RGEO:67, DUB LIFE cuile (being alive; obsoleting coi, coire in LT1:257; the latter means "stirring, spring" in mature Quenya); NEW LIFE laito, laisi (vigour, youth), LIFE-BREAD coimas (prob. coimast[a]-, cf. masta "bread") (lembas) -KUY, LT1:267, Silm:406/429 LIFT UP orta- (raise, rise; pa.t. ortane is attested) -Nam/ORO/RGEO:67 LIGHT cale, cala; A LIGHT calina (which is basically the adjective "light", but it is used substantively in coacalina; see LIGHT OF THE HOUSE under HOUSE), calma (lamp), LIGHT (adj) calina; RAY OF LIGHT alca; GLITTERING LIGHT rilma; STARLIGHT or LIGHT OF SILPION (Telperion) silme (+silver), MOONLIGHT isilme; EMIT LIGHT faina-; LIGHT-ELVES, ELVES OF THE LIGHT Calaquendi; LIGHT-CLEFT Calacirya (gen. Calaciryo is attested) -KAL, MR:250, AKLA-R, RIL, SIL/LotR:1157, MC:223, PHAY, WJ:361/Silm:61, RGEO:70/Nam LIKE (prep) ve (as) -Nam/RGEO:66, 67 LILY indil ("or other large single flower"), nenu (= yellow water lily) -WJ:399, LT1:248 LINE OF SURF falasse (beach, shore) -Silm:431 LINDI Lindi (What the Nandorin Elves called themselves; the word could be adopted unchanged into Exilic Quenya. Sg #Linde?) -WJ:385 LINDIL Sindarin form of LINDI, q.v. -WJ:385 LINDON Lindon, Lindone -WJ:385 LINE tie (path, direction, course, way, road), tea (straight line, road), tema (row, series) (pl. temar is attested in LotR:1153) -TE3/RGEO:67, TEN LIP cila (The normal plural would be a dual form: *cilat.) -GL:24 LION ra (pl ravi) (so in Etym; LT1:260 has rau, but pl ravi is the same.) SHE-LION ravenne -RAW, LT1:260 LIQUID (adj) sirima (flowing) -LT1:265 LISTEN lar-, lasta-; LISTENING (adj) lasta (hearing) -LAS2 LITTLE titta (tiny). LITTLE ELF Teler, Telelle (adj. telerea, telella) -TIT, LT1:267 LO! ela (look! see!) (directing sight to an actually visible object) -WJ:362 cf. 360 LOAF corne -LT1:257 LOATH yelta-; LOATHING yelma; LOATHSOME yelwa -DYEL LOCK OF HAIR finde (tress), fasse (shaggy lock, tangled hair) -SPIN LOFTY tara (tall, high) (According to Letters:282, Varda means "Lofty" [WJ:402 has "the Sublime"], but this word should probably not be used as a common adjective.) LOFTY TOWER see TOWER. -TA/Silm:437/LT1:264 LOGDRAWING turuhalme -LT1:270 LONELY eressea; LONELY ISLE Tol Eressea (tol "isle" often being omitted) -ERE, RGEO:70 LONG (adj) anda, sora (trailing); LONG AND THIN lenwa (straight, narrow); LONG (adverb, of time:) andave; LONG YEAR (144 solar years, an Elvish "century") yen (pl. yeni is attested) LONG-MARK andatehta -ANAD, LT2:344, 341, LotR:989, Nam/LotR:1141/YEN, TEK LONG FOR milya-; GREAT LONGING mavoine -MIL-IK, LT2:345 LONG-LASTING voronwa (enduring) -BORON LOOK AT yeta-; LOOK! (interj) en (there, look! yonder) LOOK! ela (lo! see!) (directing sight to an actually visible object) -LT1:262, EN, WJ:362 cf. 360 LOOM (noun) lanwa, windele -LAN, LT1:254 LOOSE leuca-, lehta- (slacken) (Note: leuca is also a noun meaning "snake". Anyway, leuca- in Etym is likely a misreading for *lenca-. The certain form lehta- is to be preferred.) -LEK LORD heru, her, as final part of compounds: #her, e.g. Ostoher *"City-Lord". LORDSHIP here; LORD OF TREES Aldaron (a name of Orome) -LT1:272, Silm:432, Letters:282, LotR:1122, Silm:32, 378 LORE nole (long study, wisdom, knowledge), +ingole (deep lore, magic [in WJ:382, the gloss is simply "lore", and the word is not stated to be poetic]), isse; SECRET LORE nolwe (wisdom). (These forms obsolete noleme in LT1:263. In some sources, nole and nolwe 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. Cf. also the spelling of the related word nole in Silm:432. But if these words are written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not numen.) LOREMASTER ingolmo (In Lambengolmor "Loremasters of Tongues" the initial i of ingolmo [pl ingolmor] has disappeared; perhaps #ngolmo is the form used in compounds when the first part of the compound ends in a vowel.) -NGOL, LT2:339, WJ:382, WJ:383/396 LOST vanwa (gone, departed, vanished, past and over, no longer to be had, dead); ONE LOST OR FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecile f.) (waif, outcast, outlaw) -WAN, Nam, WJ:366, 365 LOT marto (fortune, fate) -LT2:348 LOUD SOUND roma (trumpet-sound) (Note: roma also means "shoulder".) MUSICAL SOUND lin (lind-) (melody) -ROM, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308 LOVE (vb, love as friend) mel-; LOVE (noun) melme (LT1:262 has meles, melesse); LOVELY melwa, LOVING nilda (friendly); BELOVED melda (dear), LOVER meldo (pl meldor is attested), melindo (m.), melisse (f.); LOVEABLE melima (fair), irima (desireable) -MEL, LT1:262, WJ:412, NIL, ID LOW, LOWLYING tumna (deep, profound, dark or hidden); LOWER AIR vilma (earlier [MET] wilma), Aiwenor (lit. "Birdland") -TUB cf. LT1:271, WIL, AIWE LOWER (vb) luvu- (brood); DARK LOWERING CLOUD lumbo (pl. lumbor is attested). -LT1:259 LUCK valto (LT2:348 gives mart "a piece of luck", but word-final rt does not occur in mature Quenya. Read *marte or something similar?) -LT1:272, LT2:348 LUMP tolos (knob) -LT1:269 LUST maile; LUSTFUL mailea -MIL-IK LYING HEAVY lumna (heavy, burdensome, oppressive, ominous) (Note: lumna is also a verb meaning "lie heavy"); LYING IN BED caila (sickness) -DUB, KAY LYRE salma -LT1:265
