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<O> O (vocative particle) a -LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308 OAK norno; HAVING MANY OAK-TREES lindornea -DORON, LIN OATH vere (bond, troth, compact. Pl. probably *verer not *veri; cf. the similar formation tyave "taste", pl tyaver), vanda (pledge, solemn promise) -WED, UT:317 OBLIGED nauta (bound) -NUT OBSCURE nulla (dark, dusky) OBSCURITY mordo (shadow, stain) -NDUL, MOR OBSERVE - use the word glossed "watch, heed", q.v. Cf. LT1:258. OCCASION lu (a time) -LU OCEAN The Great Ocean Alataire, The Outer Ocean Vai (=Ekkaia?) -AYAR, LT1:271 OCTOBER Narquelie -LotR:1144/1146 ODOUR holme -NOL OFF au- (verbal prefix implying motion "away from the speaker or the place of his thought", as in auciri- "cut off, so that a portion is lost or no longer available"), ho- (verbal prefix implying motion away from something, but the point of view is outside the thing left: cf. hociri- "cut off a required portion, so as to have it or use it") -WJ:365, 366, 368 OGRE Uvanimo (see MONSTER). CANNIBAL-OGRES Sarquindi (sg #Sarquinde?) -LT1:236 cf. BAN, LT2:347 OINTMENT laive -LIB OLD enwina, linyenwa (having many years), (of things:) yerna (worn); OLDEN yarea, yalumea, GET OLD yerya- (wear [out]) -MC:222 cf. 215, YEN, GYER OMINOUS lumna (lying heavy, burdensome, oppressive) -DUB ON or (so in LT1:256, but in mature Quenya or is always translated "over". English "on" may be rendered by the allative case, see UPON.) ONCE UPON A TIME yasse, yalumesse, yaresse (Note: the first of these seems to clash with *yasse "in/on which". Writers should use one of the two alternative forms.) -YA ONE mine (obsoleting mir in LT1:260), er (only, one, alone, but, still); ONE (= a person, someone) quen pl queni (unstressed quen, "as a pronoun or final element in a compound"); THE ONE Eru (see GOD) -MINI, ERE, WJ:361 cf. 360, Silm:15, 431 ONLY eresse (singly, alone, also as noun = solitude) -ERE, LT1:269 OPEN (vb) panta- (unfurl, spread out); OPEN WIDE palu-, palya- (extend); OPEN (adj) panta, (of land:) latin, latina (free, cleared); OPENING assa (hole, performation, mouth); OPENMOUTHED fauca (thirsty, parched) -PAT, PAL, LAT, GAS, PHAU OPPRESSIVE lumna (lying heavy, burdensome, ominous) -DUB ORANGE culuina (colour), culuma (fruit) -KUL ORC (goblin) urco (pl urqui) or orco (pl. orqui or orcor) (LT1:264 has orc, but word-final rc does not occur in mature Quenya. Here the gloss is "monster, demon". Cf. WJ:390: "In the lore of the Blessed Realm the Q urko naturally seldom occurs, except in tales of the ancient days and the March, and then is vague in meaning, referring to anything that caused fear to the Elves, any dubious shape or shadow, or prowling creature.") See also ORKISH. -OROK, LT1:264, WJ:390 ORDAINER Namo (Judge - the name of a Vala) -Silm:411 ORDER (noun) heren (Heren Istarion "Order of Wizards"); ORDER (vb) vala- (used of the Valar only, as in a vala Manwe "may Manwe order it", Valar valuvar "the will of the Valar will be done", *"the Valar will order [it]". -UT:388, WJ:404 ORIENT ambaron (ambaron-), Ambarone (a similar but untranslated word, Ambarona, occurs in LotR) -AM2, LotR:490 ORIGINATE auta- (invent, devise) -GAWA ORION Telumehtar ("warrior of the sky", according to WJ:411 an old name, later [MET] evidently replaced by:) Menelmacar ("Swordsman of the Sky") -TEL, WJ:411, LotR:1147 cf. 95 ORKISH Orquin (attested with reference to language, perhaps also general adjective) -LR:178 OUR *-mma (pronominal ending used on nouns, e.g. *aldamma "our tree". It is not attested, but may be deduced from the word for "we", q.v. This "our" is exclusive, meaning "their and my", not including the person(s) that is spoken to. The inclusive ending for "your and our" is *-lma, or in the dual -lva ("our" meaning "your (sg) and mine", as in omentielvo "of our [Frodo's and Gildor's] meeting, LotR:94). In the first edition of LotR, the wrong form omentielmo is used (plural instead of dual). The ending for dual exclusive "our" (sc. "our" meaning "his/her and mine") is unknown. The emphatic, independent words for "our" may be *emma, *elma, *elva. -LotR:94, cf. Letters:447 OUT et- (prefix) (forth), OUT OF et (followed by ablative) -ET, LotR:1003 OUTCAST hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecile f.) (one lost or forsaken by friends, waif, outlaw) -WJ:365 OUTER, OUTERMOST erumea -LT1:262 OUTER LANDS Entar, Entarda (Middle-earth, East, Thither Lands [as seen from Valinor]), ettele (the word is not capitalized and seems to be sg); OUTER OCEAN Vai (= Ekkaia?) -ET, LT1:271 OUTLAW hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecile f.) (one lost or forsaken by friends, waif, outcast) -WJ:365 OUTSIDE ara (beside), ava, ette, (prefix:) ar- (e.g. Araman "outside Aman") -AR2; AWA, ET, Silm:428 OVEN urna -LT1:271 OVER or. For "over" in the sense past, see PAST AND OVER. -UT:305 OVERCAST lurea (dark) -LT1:259 OVERSHADOW telta- (canopy, screen) -TEL OX mundo (Note: a homonym means "snout, nose, cape". It may or may not obsolete the form taracu "ox" in LT2.) See also BULL. -Letters:422, LT2:347/GL:69 OXFORD - LT2 gives Taruktarna (read *Taruhtarna in mature Quenya), but the word may be obsolete. See OX above. -LT2:347
