Quettaparma Quenyanna
  † = poetic or archaic word  (e.g. †él "star", elen being the ordinary word) or a poetic or archaic meaning of an ordinary word (e.g. russë "corruscation, †swordblade"), * = unattested form, ** = wrong form, # = word that is only attested in a compound or in an inflected form (e.g. #apa, #Apanóna; see AFTER below), TLT = Tolkien's lifetime (by some called "Real Time", as opposed to:) MET = Middle-Earth Time (or rather Arda Time, since Quenya originated in the Blessed Realm), LotR = The Lord of the Rings (HarperCollinsPublishers, one-volume edition of 1991), Silm = The Silmarillion (HarperCollinsPublishers 1994), MC = The Monsters and the Critics and other Essays, MR = Morgoth's Ring, LR = The Lost Road, Etym = The Etymologies (in LR:347-400), FS = Fíriel's Song (in LR:72), RGEO = The Road Goes Ever On  (Second Edition), WJ = The War of the Jewels,  PM = The Peoples of Middle-earth, Letters = The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, LT1 = The Book of Lost Tales 1, LT2 = The Book of Lost Tales 2, Nam = Namárië (in LotR:398), Arct = "Arctic" sentence  (in The Father Christmas Letters), GL = Gnomish Lexicon (in Parma Eldalamberon [PE] #11 - references are selective), QL = Qenya Lexicon (in Parma Eldalamberon #12 - references are again selective), VT = Vinyar Tengwar  (PE and VT being journals publishing Tolkien material edited by C. Gilson, C.F. Hostetter,  A.R. Smith,  W. Welden and P. Wynne; please refer to the individual journals here referenced to determine which editors are involved in any given case), vb = verb, adj = adjective, interj = interjection, pa.t. = past tense, fut = future tense, perf = perfect tense, freq = frequentative form, inf = infinitive, gen = genitive, pl = plural form, sg = singular form. The spelling used in this wordlist is regularized (c for k except in a few names, x for ks, long vowels marked with accents rather than macrons or circumflexes;  the diaeresis is used as in LotR).  When s in a word represents earlier Þ (th as in "thing") and it should be spelt with the letter súlë instead of silmë in Tengwar writing (though Tolkien himself sometimes ignored or forgot this), this is indicated by (Þ) immediately following the word in question (e.g. sanda, sanya-; see ABIDE, ABIDING below).
  
Wordlist last updated May 10th, 2004

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  A, AN (indefinite article) - no Quenya equivalent. Elen "star" may thus also be translated "a star" (LotR:94). The absence of the definite article i "the" usually indicates that the noun is indefinite (though there are exceptions - see THE).
  ABANDON hehta- (pa.t. hehtanë is given but seems perfectly regular) (put aside, leave out, exclude, forsake) -WJ:365
  ABHOR feuya-, yelta- (loathe); THE ABHORRED Sauron (Þ) -PHEW, Silm:418, VT45:11
  ABIDE mar- (be settled of fixed) (fut. #maruva is attested: maruvan "I will abide"); ABIDE BY himya- (cleave to, stick to, adhere); ABIDING sanda (Þ) (firm, true); LAW-ABIDING sanya (Þ) (regular, normal) -UT:317/LotR:1003, KHIM/VT45:22, STAN
  ABOVE: According to VT44:26, Tolkien in one text glosses apa as "above but touching", but apa is normally the preposition "after" instead. For "above", the preposition or "over" may be used.
  ABUNDANCE úvë; ABUNDANT úvëa (in a very great number), alya (rich, blessed, prosperous) -UB, GALA
  ABYSS undumë -MC:222 cf. 215
  ACCOMOSATE camta- (sic; the cluster mt seems unusual for Quenya, and while the source does not explicitly say that this word is Quenya, it is difficult to understand what other language could be intended) (to [make] fit, suit, adapt) -VT44:14
  ACCOUNT (noun) quentalë (history), lúmequenta (chronological account, history); HISTORICAL ACCOUNT quentasta (any particular arrangement, by some author, of a series of reconds or evidences into a given historical account - not History as such, which is quentalë) -KWET, LU, VT39:16
  ACROSS arta (athwart) (Note: arta also means "fort, fortress") -LT2:335
  ACT OF WILL nirmë -VT39:30
  ACTOR tyaro (agent, doer) -KYAR
  ACTUAL anwa (real, true) -ANA
  ACUTE tereva (fine, piercing); ACUTE, ACUTENESS laicë (In the printed Etymologies, a similar word is also the adjective "keen, sharp, acute", but according to VT45:25, this is a misreading; the final vowel of the adjective should be -a, not -ë. However, the conceptual validity of the adjective laica, and therefore also the corresponding noun laicë, is questionable; see PIERCING.) -TER, LAIK
  ADAPT camta- (sic; the cluster mt seems unusual for Quenya, and while the source does not explicitly say that this word is Quenya, it is difficult to understand what other language could be intended) (to [make] fit, suit, accomosate) -VT44:14
  ADHERE himya- (abide by, cleave to, stick to) -VT45:22, cf. KHIM
  ADHERING himba (sticking) -KHIM
  ADMIRAL ciryatur (only attested as the personal name Ciryatur of an admiral, but the word means *"ship-ruler") -UT:239
  ADULT (adj) vëa (manly, vigorous); ADULT MAN vëaner; ADULT MALE nér (ner-, as in. pl neri) (man) -WEG, DER
  ADÛNAKHOR Herunúmen -UT:222, Silm:322
  AEGNOR Aicanáro (so in Silm:435 and PM:345; MR:323 has Aicanár) (Sharp Flame, Fell Fire) 
  AFFECT #ap- (given as aorist stem apë) (to concern, to touch one) -VT44:26
  AFFECTIONATE méla (loving) -VT39:10
  AFFLICTED - be afflicted: moia- (labour). The participle *moiala may then be used to translate "afflicted" as an adjective, describing one who is "labouring" or toiling as a thrall. -VT43:31
  AFTER apa (attested in compounds like Apanónar, see below), #ep- (used in compounds when the second part of the compound begins with a vowel, only attested in epessë "after-name" - see NICKNAME.) It may be that the prefix #ep- belongs to another conceptual phase in Tolkien's development of Quenya. Variant forms of apa "after" include opo and pó/po (VT44:36). According to VT44:26, the preposition apa may also appear as pa, pá (cf. yéni pa yéni "years after years" in VT44:35), but pa/pá is in other manuscripts defined as "touching, as regards, concerning". THE AFTER-BORN Apanónar (sg #Apanóna) (i.e., an Elvish name of Men, according to WJ:387 "a word of lore, not used in daily speech") -Silm:122/WJ:387, UT:266
  AGAIN ata; AGAIN (prefix) en-, (prefix) at-, ata- (back-, re-) (AT[AT])
  AGAINST: According to VT44:26, Tolkien in some documents glosses apa or pá as "touching, against", but apa is normally the preposition "after" instead. 
  AGE randa (cycle); AGES OF AGES yénion yéni -RAD, VT44:36
  AGENT tyaro (actor, doer) -KAR
  AGILE tyelca (swift) -KYELEK
  AGO yá -YA
  AGONY qualmë (death), unqualë (death; according to VT45:24, Tolkien changed this word to anqualë) -KWAL, VT45:5, 24, 36
  AH (interj.) ai (alas) Ai! laurië lantar lassi Ah! golden fall the leaves (Nam)
  AIR vista (= air as substance); lindë (tune, song, singing); vilya older [MET] wilya (sky); vilma (lower air) (perhaps changed to vista, but vilma was not struck out in Etym); PUFF OF AIR hwesta (breeze, breath); UPPER AIRS AND CLOUDS fanyarë (skies), AIRY vilin (breezy) -WIS, LIN, WIL/LT1:273, SWES/LotR:1157, MC:223, LT1:273
  ALAS (interj.) ai (ah) (Etym also gives a word nai, but this clashes with nai "be it that" in Namárië.); also orro or horro as an "exclamation of horror, pain, disgust: ugh, alas! ow!" -Nam/RGEO:66, NAY, VT45:17
  ALIVE cuina; BEING ALIVE (noun not adj) cuilë (life) (LT1:257 gives coina, coirëa.) -KUY
  ALL ilya (all of a particular group of things, the whole, each, every) (Note: ilya normally appears as ilyë before a plural noun: ilyë tier "all paths"); ALLNESS, THE ALL ilúvë (the whole), ALL THAT IS  WANTED fárë (plenitude, sufficiency) -VT39:20, VT44:9, IL, Nam cf. RGEO:67, Silm:433/WJ:402, PHAR
  ALLOW lav- (yield, grant); NOT ALLOW TO CONTINUE nuhta- (stunt, prevent from coming to completion, stop short) -DAB, WJ:413
  ALONE (see also LONELY, SOLE) er (one, alone, only, but, still), eressë (singly, only, also as noun: solitude) -ERE, LT1:269
  ALPHABET tengwanda -TEK
  ALSO yando -QL:104
  ALWAYS illumë (earlier variants of the relevant text also have vora and vorë, forms Tolkien may or may not have abandoned) -VT44:9
  ALTOGETHER aqua (fully, completely, wholly) -WJ:392
 *AMANIAN (only translated "of Aman" by Tolkien) amanya. Cf. also Úmanyar, Úamanyar, Alamanyar "those not of Aman" (the Elves who started on the march from Cuiviénen but did not reach Aman; contrast the Avamanyar, another name of the Avari.) -WJ:411, 373, 370, MR:163
  AMEN (Hebrew: "truly, certainly, may it be so") násië (another form, násan, was apparently abandoned by Tolkien) -VT43:24, 35
  AMLOTH *Ambalotsë (Tolkien asterisked the word because it was not attested, only a possible Quenya form of Amloth. See "UPRISING-FLOWER".) -WJ:318
  AMONG imíca, mici -VT43:30
  AMRAS Telufinwë (meaning "Last Finwë", not the equivalent in sense to his Sindarin name. The short form of his name was Telvo *"Last One". His mother-name [q.v.] was Ambarussa, but this name was not used in narrative.) -PM:353
  AMROD Pityafinwë (meaning "Little Finwë", not the equivalent in sense to his Sindarin name. The short form of his name was Pityo *"Little One". His mother-name [q.v.] was Ambarto, or Umbarto, but these names were not used in narrative.) -PM:353
  AN see A
  ANCIENT yára (old, belonging to or descending from former times) -YA
  AND ar (possibly a before f [and v?]: eldain a fírimoin "for elves and men" [FS], cf. a valmarion "and of those of Valmar" [from "Antatye Voronwi"  by  C. Gilson, Vinyar Tengwar #31 p. 10]) (In Sauron Defeated  p. ii, o is translated  "and", but LotR, Silm and Etym all agree that the Quenya word for "and" is ar. A longer variant arë is mentioned in VT43:31.) AND YET a-nanta/ananta (but yet) -AR/Nam/FS, VT43:31, NDAN
  ANGBAND Angamando (Iron-gaol) (so in MR:350 and Silm:428; Etym has Angamanda, or in deleted material Angavanda). -MR:350, Silm:428, MBAD, VT45:6
  ANGELIC POWER Vala (pl. Valar or Vali, gen. pl. Valion is attested in Fíriel's Song); ANGELIC SPIRIT Ainu, f. Aini (holy one, god) -LotR:1157/BAL/FS, AYAN, LT1:248
  ANGELN (island in the Danish peninsula) Eriollo -LT1:252
  ANGROD Angaráto -Silm:428
  ANIMAL #celva (only pl. celvar ["k"] is attested, translated "animals, living things that move" in Silm appendix and WJ:341); laman (pl. lamni or lamani) ("usually only applied to four-footed beasts, and never to reptiles and birds"); MALE ANIMAL hanu (male) -Silm:52/53,/405:3AN, WJ:416
  ANYBODY - if anybody: aiquen (whoever) -WJ:372
  APPROPRIATE (to a special purpose or owner) #sat- (set aside). The verb #sat- is cited in the form "sati-", evidently including the connecting vowel of the aorist, as in *satin "I appropriate". -VT42:20
  APRIL Víressë -LotR:1144/1146
  AR-ADÛNAKHOR Tar-Herunúmen -UT:222, Silm:322
  AR-BELZAGAR Tar-Calmacil -UT:222
  AR-GIMILZÔR Tar-Telemnar -UT:223
  AR-INZILADÛN Tar-Palantir -UT:223, Silm:324
  AR-PHARAZÔN Tar-Calion (and, as an experimental form, Tar-culu?) -UT:224, Silm:324, VT45:24
  AR-SAKALTHÔR Tar-Falassion -UT:223
  AR-ZIMRAPHEL Tar-Míriel -UT:224, Silm:324
  AR-ZIMRATHÔN Tar-Hostamir -UT:222
  ARCTURUS (a star) Morwinyon (said to mean "the glint at dusk" or "glint in the dark") -LT1:260
  ARE see BE
  ARGON Aracáno -PM:345
  ARM ranco (pl ranqui) (LT2:335 gives rá [there spelt râ], but this word is certainly obsolete: In Etym, rá is glossed "lion".) -RAK
  ARMY hossë (band, troop) -LT2:340
  ARNOR Arnanor, Arnanórë ("royal land") -Letters:428
  ARROW pilin (pl pilindi) -PÍLIM
  ART Carmë (making, production) -UT:396
  ARTIFICIAL CAVE hróta (dwelling underground, rockhewn hall) -PM:365
  AS (prep) ve (like). The longer variant sívë appears to introduce a comparison with something that is near to the point or thought of the speaker, whereas tambë introduces a comparison with something remote, as in Tolkien's translation of one line from the Lord's Prayer: cemendë tambë Erumandë "on earth as in heaven" ("heaven" being remote – we may theorize that "in heaven as [here] on earth" would translate as *Erumandë sívë cemendë, since "earth" would represent the position of the speaker). NOTE: a homophone sívë means "peace". AS REGARDS pa, pá (concerning, touching) -Nam/RGEO:66, 67, VT43:12, 38, VT44:26
  ASCENT rosta, ASCENSION orosta -LT1:267, 256
  ASGARD Valinor, Valinórë (Tolkien actually uses this gloss of Valinor, as Asgard is the City of the Gods in Norse mythology) -LT1:272
  ASIDE - stand aside! heca! - also with pronominal affixes: sg hecat, pl hecal "you stay aside!" (be gone!) LEAVING ASIDE hequa (not counting, excluding, except) -WJ:364, 365
 *ASK #maquet- (only pa.t. maquentë is attested. The word is not translated, but undoubtedly means "asked": 'Mana i·coimas in·Eldaron?' maquentë Elendil [PM:403]. The question itself is translated "What is the coimas of the Eldar?", so the rest must be "Elendil asked". Furthermore, maquentë is transparently quentë "said" with the interrogative element ma [PM:357] prefixed.) ASK FOR - see DEMAND.
  ASLEEP lorna -LOS
  ASSEMBLE hosta- (gather, collect) -MC:223
  ASSOCIATE otorno (sworn brother) osellë (Þ) (sworn sister) -TOR, THEL
  ASTRONOMER meneldil -Letters:386
  AT sé, se (the form with a long vowel may be preferred since se is apparently also a 3rd person pronoun) (in) -VT43:30, 34
  ATHWART arta (across) (Note: arta also means "fort, fortress"); GO ATHWART tara- (cross) -LT2:335, 347    
  AUGER teret (gimlet) -LT1:255
  AUGUST Urimë (so in LotR; UT has Úrimë) -LotR:1144, UT:302/470
  AUTHORITY Máhan (pl Máhani is given, but seems perfectly regular). Tolkien once stated that Valar should strictly be translated "the Authorities" (MR:350), but Vala obviously cannot be used to translate "authority" in general; it was used only of the Valar themselves (WJ:404). Cf. also adj. valya "having (divine) authority or power". Máhani was adopted from Valarin and originally probably referred to the Valar themselves. We are not told whether Máhan could or should be applied to a non-divine authority (at least it should not be capitalized if so used). Note: Máhan means *"Supreme One" rather than "authority" as an abstract. -MR:350, BAL, WJ:399/402
  AUTUMN yávië (harvest - in the Calendar of Imladris, yávië was a precisely defined period of 54 days, but the word was also used without any exact definition), lasselanta ("leaf-fall", used of the beginning of winter or as a synonym of quellë; see FADING. Also spelt lasse-lanta with a hyphen), narquelion ("fire-fading" - this word from Fíriel's Song and Etym seems to correspond to narquelië in LotR, but the latter is the name of the month corresponding to our October.) LT1:273 has yávan "autumn, harvest", but this word may be obsoleted by yávië. -LotR:1142, 1144, 1145/Silm:439/LT1:254, DAT, FS, NAR/KWAL, Letters:382
  AVENUE OF TREES aldëon -LT1:249
  AWAKE coiva- (so in LT1:257; read *cuiva- in Tolkien's later Quenya? Cf. the following:) AWAKENING (noun) cuivië (obsoleting coivië in LT1:257), cuivë; AWAKENING (adj) cuivëa -KUY/Silm:429
  AWAY oa, oar (viewed from the point of view of the thing, person, or place left). Oar is used of movement only, as in "I went away". See also GO AWAY. -WJ:366 cf. 361, VT39:6. 
  AWNING teltassë -GL:70
  AXE pelecco -LT2:346  

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  BABE lapsë -LAP
  BACK - LT2:338 mentions a Gnomish word alm, said to mean "the broad of the back from shoulder to shoulder, back, shoulders". It is stated that the "Qenya" cognate of this Gnomish word occurs in the name Aikaldamor - i.e., #aldamo or #aldamor? But this is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. 
  BACK- (prefix) at-, ata- (re-, again-); THOSE WHO GO BACK Nandor (Elves that left the March from Cuiviénen) AT BACK OF PLACE, see BEHIND. -AT(AT), WJ:384
  BACKWARDS nan- (prefix?) -NDAN
  BAD olca (wicked) (VT43:24). Compare ulca "evil". The Gnomish fêg is glossed "bad" in GL:34, and this is equated with Q faica, glossed "contemptible, mean" under SPAY in the Etymologies.
  BAKE masta- -MBAS
  BALE OUT calpa- (draw water, scoop out) -KALPA
  BALL coron (stem #corn-, as in dat.sg. cornen) (globe) -KOR
  BALROG Valarauko (pl. Valaraukar) (so in the Silmarillion - in Etym the Quenya form of Sindarin balrog is malarauco, while LT1:250 gives Malcaraucë) -Silm:35/425/439, RUK
  BAND nossë (army, troop) -LT2:340
  BANK (esp. of river) ráva -RAMBÁ
  BARK - Tolkien originally thought that parma "book" really meant "skin, bark; parchment", with "book, writings" as the secondary meaning. But in Etym parma is derived from a stem meaning "compose, put together", obsoleting the old etymology. -LT2:346, contrast PAR
  BASE sundo (root, root-word) (pl. #sundar, isolated from Tarmasundar in UT:166), talan (talam-) (floor, ground), talma (foundation, root); BASE-STRUCTURE sundocarmë -SUD, WJ:319, TALAM, TAL, LT:343
  BATTER palpa- (beat) -PALAP
  BAY (small and landlocked) hópa (haven, harbour) -KHOP
  BE: The forms of the verb "to be" that occur in the published corpus are ná "is", nar "are", nauva "will be" and na imperative "be!" (na airë "be holy", VT43:14, alcar...na Erun "glory...be to God", VT44:34); this imperative na is apparently incorporated in the word nai "be it that" (misleading translation "maybe" in LotR). Ná "is" appears with a short vowel (na) in some sources, but writers should probably maintain the long vowel to avoid confusion with the imperative (as well as the wholly distinct preposition na "to"). The word ëa (pa.t. engë, VT43:38) is variously translated "is", "exists", "it is", "let it be". Fíriel's Song contains a word ye "is", but Tolkien may have abandoned ye in LotR-style Quenya. For "was", some writers have used né, pl. ("were") ner. Also attested is the negative copula uin and umin "I do not, am not" (1st pers. aorist), pa.t. úmë. MAY IT BE SO, see AMEN. -Nam/RGEO:67, VT43:34/An Introduction to Elvish:5, VT42:34, Silm:21/391, FS, UGU/UMU
  BE GONE! heca! - also with pronominal affixes: sg hecat, pl hecal "you be gone!" (stand aside!) -WJ:364
  BEACH falas (falass-), falassë (shore, line of surf), falas, hresta (ablative hrestallo is attested) -LT1:253, Silm:431, PHAL/LT2:339, MC:221/222/223
  BEAR (vb) #col- (verb stem isolated from #colindo "bearer". Cf. mel- "to love", melindo "lover". #Col- can also be translated *"wear" [of clothes], cf. the past participle colla "borne, worn".) BEAR FRUIT yavin (which must mean *"I bear fruit", stem #yav-. Tolkien often employs the 1st person aorist when mentioning a verb in his wordlists.) -LotR:989, cf. Letters:308 and MEL, MR:385, LT1:273
  BEAR (noun) morco -MORÓK
  BEARD fanga (obsoleting vanga in GL:21; GL:34 has fangë "long beard", whereas GL:63 gives poa. Neo-Quenya writers should use fanga.) -SPÁNAG
  BEARER #colindo (only attested in the pl compound cormacolindor "Ring-bearers") -LotR:989, cf. Letters:308
  BEAT palpa- (batter) -PALAP
  BEAUTIFUL vanya (Note: a homophone verb means "disappear"), linda (beautiful/fair of sound, VT45:27), calwa, vanima (nominal pl vanimar "beautiful ones" and partitive plural genitive vanimálion are attested) (fair, proper, right). According to MR:49, Maiar means "the Beautiful", but in Quenya this is the name of an order of spirits and cannot be used as a general adjective. BEAUTY vanessë, WITHOUT BEAUTY úvanë, adj. úvanëa -BAN, SLIN, LT1:254, LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308, LT1:272, MR:49, VT39:14
  BED caima; BEDCHAMBER caimasan (Þ) (pl. caimasambi); BEDRIDDEN caila (lying in bed, ?sickness), caimassëa (sick); LYING IN BED (noun) caila (bedridden, ?sickness) -KAY/VT45:19, STAB
  BEE nier (honey-bee), nion -GL:60
  BEECH feren, fernë (pl. ferni in both cases) (LT2:343 gives neldor "beech", but this early word may be obsolete in LotR-style Quenya.) -PHER
  BEECHEN ferinya -PHÉREN
  BEFORE epë -VT44:38, erroneously glossed "after" in VT42:32
  BEGET nosta- (glossed "give birth" in earlier sources), onta- (pa.t. ónë or ontanë) (create); BEGETTER #nostar (see note), also ontar with gender-specific forms ontaro (m.), ontarë or ontari (f.) (parent). (In LotR, the form nostari "begetters, parents" occurs; sg #nostar. Nostari was changed from ontari in Tolkien's first draft [see SD:73], so he may have scrapped ontaro, ontarë in favour of #nostar [or m. *nostaro, f. *nostarë???] Did he also reject the verb onta- in favour of nosta-?) -SD:73, VT44:7, ONO, LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308
  BEGINNING *yessë (Emended from the actual reading esse, derived from a stem that was marked with a query by Tolkien because esse also = name. Evidence from LotR indicates that he decided to change the stem in question from ESE to *YESE, thus eliminating this homophony: In LotR:1142 we find yestarë, apparently meaning *"first-day" - it is not translated, but it was the name of the first day of the year and ré means "day". In Etym [stem ESE] the word for "first" was esta. So for esta "first", esse "beginning" and essea "?primary" [gloss illegible], we should evidently read *yesta, *yessë and yessëa.) -ESE/ESET
  BEGOTTEN - see FIRST-BEGOTTEN.
  BEHALF - on behalf of: rá, followed by dative, as in the example rá men "on behalf of us, for us". Dative pronouns may be directly suffixed to rá: "for us" or "on behalf of us" is also attested in the one-word form rámen. (Note: rá is also a noun "lion".) -VT43:27, 28, 33
  BEHIND ca, cata, cana (also glossed "at back of place") -VT43:20 
  BEHOLD cen- (see) (future tense cenuva is attested) -MC:222
  BEING ëala (spirit).Pl. ëalar is attested. Eälar are spirits whose natural state it is to exist without a physical body, e.g. Balrogs. -MR:165
  BEING ALIVE (noun) cuilë -KUY
  BELEGOST Túrosto (Mickleburg) -WJ:389
  BELERIAND Hecelmar, Heceldamar (lit. *"home of the Eglath", q.v.) This is said to be the name for Beleriand used "in the language of the loremasters of Aman". The cognate of Sindarin "Beleriand" is #Valariandë; only the form Valarianden is attested (a genitive formation from an earlier "Qenya" variant; in LotR-style Quenya it would be a dative). The latter may be the name used in Exilic Quenya. Beleriand was also called Ingolondë "Land of the Gnomes [Noldor]". -WJ:365, LR:202, ÑGOLOD
  BELL nyellë -NYEL
  BELLIED #cumba (isolated from sauricumba "foulbellied"). This adjective may point to *cumbo or something similar as the likely word for "belly". -SD:68, 72
  BELOVED melda (dear, sweet). Cf. nessamelda, *"beloved of Nessa", a flagrant evergreen tree brought to Númenor by the Eldar. -MEL, UT:456
  BELZAGAR Calmacil -UT:222
  BEND #cúna- (derived from the adj. cúna "bent"; see MC:223. In menel acúna "the heavens bending" the word is used intransitively.) -MC:222/223 cf. 215   
  BENEATH undu (down, under) -UNU
  BENT cúna (curved; cúna is also used as a verbal stem, see BEND), raica (crooked, wrong), cauca (crooked, humped), sara (Þ) (stiff dry grass) -MC:223, RAYAK, LT1:257, STAR
  BERRY piucca -GL:64 (glossed "blackberry" in LT2:347)
  BESIDE ara, also ar- as prefix. -AR
  BETWEEN imbë, mitta- (does the final hyphen suggest that the latter form is used as prefix, somewhat like *"inter-"?) -Nam/RGEO:67, VT43:30
  BEYOND pella (a postposition in Quenya: Andúnë pella "beyond the West", elenillor pella "from beyond the stars"), ava (outside) -Nam, MC:222, VT45:6
  BIER tulma -LT1:270
  BIND (see TIE); in more abstract sense: avalerya- (make fast, restrain, deprive of liberty) -VT41:5, 6
  BIG DIPPER see SICKLE OF THE VALAR.
  BIPED #attalya (Only pl Attalyar is attested. The word was used of the Petty-dwarves, q.v.) -WJ:389
  BIRD aiwë, filit (pl filici) (Note: both aiwë and filit are stated to mean "small bird", not "bird" in general), ambalë, ammalë (= yellow bird), lindo (= "singer", singing bird). LT1:273 also has wilin; this may or may not be a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. -AIWÊ, PHILIK, SMAL, LIN   
  BIRTH, BIRTHDAY nosta; GIVE BIRTH nosta- (but in later sources, nosta- is glossed "beget", q.v.) -LT1:272
  BITE (vb) nac- BITE (noun) nahta -NAK
  BITTER sára -SAG
  BLACK  morë (in compounds mori-, e.g. Moriquendi), morna, morqua; BLACKNESS mórë (darkness, night); BLACKHANDED morimaitë, BLACKBERRY piucca (only glossed "berry" in GL:64); BLACK FOE Moringotto (the oldest [MET] form was Moriñgotho) (Morgoth) -MOR, LT1:260, LotR:1015/SD:68, 72, LT2:347, MR:194
  BLADE hyanda (share), (sword blade:) †russë (corruscation) -LT2:342, RUS
  BLAZE urya- (The stem this word is derived from was struck out in Etym. However, several words that must be derived from the same stem occur in LotR, indicating that Tolkien restored it.) BLAZING HOT úrin (Úrin also being a name of the Sun) -UR, LT1:271
  BLEND (noun) ostimë (pl. ostimi is attested). This term refers to a kind of "strengthened" elements within a stem, where a single sound has been expanded into two different elements while maintaining a unitary effect and significance; souch as s- being turned ito st-, or m being strengthened to mb. However, this may be the meaning of the word in linguistic terminology only; it may be permissible to use it for "blend" in more general senses as well. -VT39:9
  BLESS laita- (praise) (Imperative a laita and future #laituva are attested, the latter with pronominal endings: laituvalmet, "we shall praise [or bless] them".) The participle aistana "blessed" (see below) argues the existence of a verbal stem #aista- "to bless", but this verb seems etymologically connected to airë "holy" and should probably only be used with reference to more or less "divine" persons (aistana refers to the Virgin Mary in the source), who are "blessed" in the sense of having their holiness recognized and respected. 
  BLESSED alya, almárëa (prosperous, rich, abundant), herenya (wealthy, fortunate, rich), manaquenta or manquenta, also aman ("blessed, free from evil" - Aman was "chiefly used as the name of the land where the Valar dwelt." [WJ:399), cf. also BLESSED BEING Manwë (name of the King of the Valar). Alya, almárëa, and herenya are adjectives that may also have worldly connontations, apparently often used with reference to one who is "blessed" with material possessions or simply has good luck; on the other hand, the forms derived from the root man- primarily describes something free from evil: Cf. mána "blessed" in Fíriel's Song (referring to the Valar) and the alternative form manna in VT43:19 [cf. VT45:32] (in VT45 referring to the Virgin Mary; the form mána may be preferred for clarity, since manna is apparently also the question-word "whither?", "where to?") The forms manaquenta or manquenta also include the man- root, but it is combined with a derivative (passive participle?) of the verbal stem quet- "say, speak", these forms seemingly referring to someone who is "blessed" in the sense that people speak well of this person (a third form from the same source, manque, is possibly incomplete: read manquenta?) (VT44:10-11) The most purely "spiritual" term is possibly the word aistana, used for "blessed" in Tolkien's translation of the Hail Mary, where this word refers to the Virgin (VT43:27-28, 30). Aistana is apparently not an independent adjective (like alya, mána etc.), but rather the passive participle of a verb #aista- "bless"; see above concerning its precise application. BLESSEDNESS vald- (so in LT1:272; nom. sg. must be either *val or *valdë) (happiness; but since this word comes from early material where it was intended to be related to Valar "Happy/Blessed Ones", its conceptual validity may be doubted because Tolkien later reinterpreted Valar as "the Powers" and dropped the earlier etymology). "BLESSINGS", BLESSEDNESS, BLISS almië, almarë; FINAL BLISS manar, mandë (doom, final end, fate, fortune) -LotR:989 cf Letters:308; GAL, KHER, Letters:283, LT1:272, MAN/MANAD, VT43:19, 27-28, 30
  BLIGHT yaru (gloom) -GL:37
  BLINK tihta- (peer) -MC:223
  BLOCK tápë (3 pers sg aorist), pa.t. tampë -TAP
  BLOOD sercë (so according to Silm appendix; Etym has yár [yar-]) -Silm:437, YAR
  BLOSSOM (white) lossë, ("of flowers in bunches or clusters":) *lohtë (emended from the actual reading loktë because Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya.) -LOT, LT1:258
  BLOT motto -MBOTH
  BLUE luin, #luinë (pl. luini in Nam; Etym and LT1:262 have lúnë), ninwa, ulban (adopted from Valarin; only used in Vanyarin Quenya), PALE BLUE helwa  -Nam/LT2:340, LT1:262, LUG, WJ:399, 3EL 
  BOAT luntë; SMALL BOAT venë (vessel, dish) -LUT, LT1:254
  BODY hroa (pl. hroar is attested. In MR:330, Tolkien notes that hroa is "roughly but not exactly equivalent to 'body'" [as opposed to "soul"]. Hroa is also used = "physical matter"), DEAD BODY loico (corpse); BODILY sarcuva (corporeal – this is "Qenya"); BODY-IMPULSE hroafelmë (impulses provided by the body, e.g. physical fear, hunger, thirst, sexual desire) -MR:216, 219; VT39:30, MC:223, LT2:347, VT41:19 cf. 13
  BOLD verya, canya; BOLDNESS verië -BER, KAN
  BOLSTER nirwa (cushion) -NID
  BOND nútë (knot), vérë (troth, compact, oath) Pl. probably *vérer, *núter not *véri, *núti; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste", pl tyáver. -NUT, WED
  BONE axo (pl axor is attested) -MC:222, 223
  BOOK parma (writings); BOOK LANGUAGE (=Quenya) parmalambë -PAR/UT:219, 460, LT2:346
  BORDER réna (edge, margin); ríma (edge, hem) -REG, Rî
  BORN #nóna (isolated from Apanónar, the "Afterborn") -Silm:122/381
  BORNE colla (pa.p. of col- "bear") (worn). Also used as a noun = "vestment, cloak". -MR:385
  BOSOM palúrë (surface, bosom of earth), súma (hollow cavity) -PAL, MC:223
  BOSS OF SHIELD tolmen (isolated round hill) -LT1:269
  BOTH yúyo -YÛ
  BOUND nauta (obliged) -NUT
  BOW (vb) #caw- (cited in source as cawin "I bow", 1st pers. aorist; in Tolkien's later conception it would be difficult to account for w in this position, and we should perhaps read *cav- with pa.t. *canwë); BOW (noun) quinga, cú (also = crescent Moon), lúva, cúnë (crescent); RAINBOW helyanwë ("sky-bridge"), Ilweran, Ilweranta (LT2:348 has iluquinga "sky-bow", but this word was obsoleted when Tolkien changed the meaning of ilu from "sky" to "universe".) BOWLEGGED quingatelco (So it is translated, but this must really be a noun: "bow-leg" [quinga + telco]. No Quenya adjectives end in -o, unless this is the only one. Read *quingatelca for "bow-legged"? Cf. one of the other words from the same source, sincahonda, changed from sincahondo in an earlier draft - but at that time Tolkien had already omitted quingatelco and hence did not change its ending: See SD:72.) -LT1:257, SD 68, 72, KWIG, KU3, LT1:256, LotR:1154, LT1:271
  BOWL fion (goblet), #salpë (isolated from tanyasalpë "Bowl of Fire") -LT1:253, 292
  BRANCH olwa -GÓLOB
  BRAND yulma (Note: a homophone means "cup".) -YUL cf. Nam
  BREAD massa ( masta; LIFE-BREAD (= lembas) coimas (either *coimass- or coimast-, cf. massa, masta "bread"), BREAD-GIVER (fem.) massánië (title of the "Lady" or the highest among the elven-women of any people, she having the right to keep or give away lembas bread). -VT43:18, MBAS, Silm:406/429, PM:404
  BREAK (vb) rac- (past participle rácina "broken" is attested); BREAK APART terhat- (pa.t. terhantë); BREAK ASUNDER hat- (pa.t. hantë) -MC:223, SKAT
  BREATH (noun) hwesta (breeze, puff of air), súlë (Þ) (spirit) (earlier [MET] form thúlë = Þúlë ; BREATHE (vb) súya- (Þ); BREATHER Súlimo (Þ) (a title of Manwë; this is the literal meaning according to Silm:420); BREATH FORTH see EXPIRE. -SWES, THÛ/LotR:1157
  BREEZE hwesta (breath, puff of air), GENTLE BREEZE vílë; BREEZY vilin (airy) -SWES, LotR:1157, LT1:273
  BRIDE indis (wife) (This word may obsolete akairis in LT1:252.) The stem-form of indis "bride" is somewhat obscure; according to VT45:37 the stem could be indiss- (pl. indissi given), but the alternative form pl. form inderi shows a curious shift from i to e as well as the more regular change from s (via z) to r between vowels. -NDIS/UT:8, VT45:37
  BRIDEGROOM ender -NDER (cf. VT45:11 for etymology)
  BRIDGE yanwë (joining, isthmus), yanta (yoke) -YAT, LotR:1157
  BRILLIANCE alcar, alcarë (splendour, radiance), calassë (clarity); BRILLIANT alcarinqua (glorious) -AKLA-R-/RGEO:73/UT:317/WJ:369/Silm:427, GL:39
  BROAD - LT2:338 gives a word aica "broad, vast", but this is probably obsoleted by aica "sharp, fell, terrible, dire" in later writings. 
  BROAD SWORD lango (also = prow of ship), BROAD-BLADED SWORD ecet (short stabbing sword) -LAG, UT:284/432
  BROKEN rácina -MC:223
  BROOCH tancil (pin) -TAK
  BROOD luvu- (lower) -LT1:259
  BROOK nellë (GL:46 has wentë) -NEN
  BROTHER toron (pl. torni) (= natural brother); otorno sworn brother, associate BROTHERHOOD onóro (of bloodkinship), otornassë (the latter is evidently the "brotherhood" of otornor, sworn brothers) -TOR, NÔ
  BROWN varnë (swart, dark brown) (in compounds varni-) -BARÁN
  BUD tuima (sprout); BUDDING see SPRING-TIME. -TUY, LT1:269
  BUFFET taran, tarambo -LT2:337
  BUILD #car- (cited as carin "I make, build", 1st pers. aorist - according to FS and SD:246 the past tense is cárë, but Etym has carnë; writers should probably use the latter form, not to be confused with the adjective carnë "red". The passive participle #carna *"built, made" is attested in Vincarna *"newly-made" in MR:305.) BUILDING car (card-) (house), ampano (= especially building of wood, wooden hall; umpano in VT45:36 sems to be a variant form), ataquë (construction). BUILDER samno (Þ) (carpenter, wright) -KAR, PAN, VT45:36, TAK, STAB
  BULL tarucco, tarunco (see OX) -LT2:347
  BUNCHES (of flowers) see BLOSSOM.
  BURDEN cólo (VT39:10)
  BURDENSOME lumna (lying heavy, oppressive, ominous) -DUB
  BURLY polda (strong) -POL
  BURN usta- (transitive, e.g. *Fëanáro ustanë i ciryar "Fëanor burnt the ships"), urya- (intransitive, e.g. *i ciryar uryaner "the ships were burning") -LT1:271
  BUSH tussa -TUS
  BUT: A sting of different words for "but" are attested. In the Etymologies, the word for "but" is ná or nán. In Fíriel's Song, the short variant nan appears. In Tolkien's drafts for a Quenya version of the Lord's Prayer, he was experimenting with many words for "but": anat, onë, ono (VT43:23; ono occurs also in another text in VT44:5/9, and shorter nó is attested in VT41:13), but in the final version of the Lord's Prayer, he used mal. We cannot know how many of these alternatives Tolkien would have considered conceptually valid and which were just experimental. For the purpose of writing in Quenya, the variant ná is probably best avoided since it can be confused with the copula "is"; likewise, nán (and nan?) may also mean *"I am" (ná, na- + the pronominal ending -n "I"). The Lord's Prayer variants are less ambiguous, and mal (the word used in the final version) is perhaps the best alternative so far published. BUT meaning "only" (as in "I am but a boy") may be rendered by er (only, one, alone, still). BUT YET a-nanta, ananta (and yet) -NDAN, LT1:269, FS, VT41:13, VT43:23
  BUTTERFLY wilwarin (wilwarind-) -WIL/MC:222, 223/LT1:273
  BUTTOCKS hacca (hams) -GL:47
 -BY-mas (final element in place-names, see -TON) -LT1:250  

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  CALACIRIAN Calaciryan (prob. *Calaciryand-), full form Calaciryandë (i.e., "the region of Eldamar...in and near the entrance to the ravine [of Calacirya], where the Light was brighter and the land more beautiful") -RGEO:70 cf. LotR:252
  CALL (noun) yello (shouth, cry of triumph) -GYEL, VT45:16
  CANDLE lícuma (taper) -MC:223
  CANOPY (vb) telta- (overshadow, screen), CANOPY (noun) telimbo (sky) -TEL, LT1:268
  CANNIBAL-OGRES Sarquindi (sg #Sarquindë?) -LT2:347 
  CAPE mundo (nose, snout) (Note: mundo also means "ox".) -MBUD
  CAPTAIN hesto -VT45:22
  CARANTHIR Morifinwë, short form Moryo (not equivalent in sense to his Sindarin name, which is the cognate of his "mother-name" [q.v.] Carnistir.) -PM:353
  CARCANET firinga (necklace) -LT2:346/GL:36
  CAROUSAL yulmë (drinking) (Note: a homophone means "smouldering heat") -WJ:416
  CARPENTER samno (Þ) (wright, builder) -STAB
  CARRY - GL:38 has yulu-, but in WJ:416 the same stem (there spelt JULU) is said to mean "drink", indicating that yulu- "carry" had probably been abandoned in Tolkien's later Quenya. Use rather #col-; see BEAR.
  CART norollë -GL:31
 ?CASSIOPEIA Wilwarin (the identification of this constellation is not certain. Wilwarin means "butterfly".) -Silm:426
  CASTLE OF CUSTODY - this is mentioned as the approximate meaning of Mandos (stem Mandost-) -MR:350
  CAT mëoi -LT2:348
  CATCH (noun) atsa (hook, claw) -GAT
  CAUSE (vb) tyar- -KYAR
  CAVE felya, rondo, rotelë; ARTIFICIAL CAVE hróta (dwelling underground, rockhewn hall)  -PHÉLEG, ROD, LT2:347, PM:365
  CAVITY (hollow) súma (bosom) -MC:223
  CEASE hauta- (take a rest, stop), pusta- (stop, put a stop to), tyel- (end) -KHAW, PUS, KYEL
  CELEBORN Telporno (Letters:425) or Teleporno (UT:266). (The latter is stated to be the Telerin form, while Telporno must be the form used in Noldorin Quenya. Cf. Altáriel vs. Alatáriel; see GALADRIEL.)
  CELEBRIMBOR (= "Silver-fist") Telperinquar (possibly *Telperinquár-. Cf. quárë "fist"). -Silm:429
  CELEBRINDAL ("Silver-foot", Idril's epithet) Taltyelemna ("Taltelemna" in the printed Etymologies is a misreading, see VT45:25) Tolkien apparently abandoned the form Taltelepsa. -KYELEP
  CELEGORM Turcafinwë, short form Turco (not equivalent in sense to his Sindarin name, which is a cognate of his mother-name [q.v.] Tyelcormo "hasty-riser"; the latter name was "never used in narrative".) -PM:352, 353
  CELOS Celussë (see UT:426)
  CENTRE endë (core, middle). (The form endë is probably to be preferred to entë in one late source.) Early material also has tólë. -NÉD, ÉNED, VT41:16, LT1:269
  CENTURY haranyë (or perhaps it means the last day of a century - Tolkien's wording is not clear. The latter interpretation may be more likely.) -LotR:1142
  CHAIN Angainor (= "The Great Chain" with which Morgoth was twice bound; LT1:249 has the form Angaino) -Silm:59
  CHAIR hamma -VT45:20
  CHAMBER sambë (Þ) (-san, -samb- in compounds; cf. BEDCHAMBER) (room) -STAB
  CHAMPION aráto (eminent man) -Silm:428
  CHANGE (vb) #ahya- (only pa.t. ahyanë is attested) -PM:395
  CHANNEL celma -KEL
  CHANT #lir- (cited in source as lirin "I chant", 1st pers. aorist) (sing) -LIR1
  CHARACTER (settled character) indómë ("also used of the 'will' of Eru [God]", VT43:16). For "character" = letter, see LETTER.
 CHEESE tyur (tyurd-) (QL:50; tyuru- in GL:28 is actually a verb "to 'turn' milk"; cf. QL:50.)
  CHERRY pio (this word was also applied to plums). CHERRY TREE aipio (also used = "plum tree"???) -LT2:347, GL:18
  CHIEF (adj) héra (principal); CHIEF (noun) #turco (isolated from Turcomund "chief of bulls, *chief bull"; this may not be pure Quenya, but Turco appears as a the short name of Turcafinwë, Celegorm's Quenya name - though that is translated "strong, powerful (in body)" rather than referring to more "political" power) -KHER, Letters:423, PM:352
  CHIEFTAIN (or CHIEF, VT45:17) haran (stem harn-, as in pl harni) (in Etym also = king, but in LotR and other texts the Quenya word for "king" is aran pl. arani - see KING), cáno, cánu (see COMMANDER) (ruler, governor, commander) -3AR, UT:400
  CHILD hína, also vocative hina with a short vowel, used when addressing a (young) child. Pl. híni rather than ?hínar; see CHILDREN OF ILÚVATAR below. "Child" as the last element in compounds: -hin (-hín-, pl. -híni), e.g. CHILDREN OF ERU Eruhíni from sg. #Eruhin; CHILDREN OF ILÚVATAR Híni Ilúvataro; MY CHILD hinya (short for hinanya). (For "child", Etym also has seldë; Tolkien changed the meaning from "daughter".) -WJ:403, Silm:387/432, VT44:35, SEL-D-
  CHILL ninquë (pallid, white); BE CHILL (of weather) nicu- (be cold) -WJ:417 cf. NIK-W- 
  CHILLY ringa (damp, cold) -LT1:265
  CHOKE quoro- (suffocate), CHOKED quorin (drowned). Some doubt whether these early [TLT] words should be used in LotR-style Quenya, in which language the combination qu + o may not be valid phonologically. -LT1:264
  CHOOSING #cilmë (isolated from Essecilmë "name-choosing", q.v.) -MR:214
  CHRIST Hristo (variant Hrísto with a long vowel, though long vowels in front of consonant clusters do not normally occur in Quenya). Another form, apparently an attempt at translating this title rather than merely adapting to Quenya phonology the word "Christ", was Elpino of uncertain etymology. However, Tolkien may have abandoned this form. -VT44:15-16, 18
  CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT lúmequenta (history). The unglossed term lumenyárë appears to mean *"chronological story". -LU, NAR2
  CIRCLE rindë; CIRCULAR rinda; CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE ("especially on a hill-top") corin -RIN, KOR/LT1:257
  CITY osto (town with wall round) -OS
  CLAD vaina -LT1:272
  CLAMOUR yalmë -ÑGYAL (see ÑGAL)
  CLAN nossë (family, "house") -NÔ
  CLARITY calassë (brilliance) -GL:39
  CLASP tangwa (hasp) -TAK
  CLAW atsa (hook, catch), #racca (isolated from raccalepta, see below); CLAW-FINGERED raccalepta -GAT, SD:68, 72
  CLEAN poica -POY
  CLEARED (of land) latin, latina (free, open) -LAT
  CLEAVE #hyar- (cited in source as hyarin "I cleave", 1st pers. aorist), CLEAVER #hyando in Sangahyando "Throng-cleaver, Cleaver of throngs" -SYAD, LT2:342, LotR:1085 cf. Letters:425
  CLEAVE TO himya- (abide by, stick to, adhere) -KHIM, VT45:22
  CLEFT yáwë (ravine, gulf); sanca (Þ) (split), hyatsë (gash), ciris (probably ciriss-) (crack), falqua (mountain pass, ravine), cilya (gorge, pass between hills) (so in Etym, but cirya in the name Calacirya "Pass of Light" [gen. Calaciryo in Namárië] - though this clashes with cirya "ship". An early version of Namárië actually had Calacilyo, not Calaciryo; see An Introduction to Elvish p. 5.) -YAG, STAK, SYAD, RGEO:70/WJ:403, LT2:337, 341, KIL
  CLIFF ollo (seaward precipice) (The alternative form oldó may be archaic Quenya.) -LT1:252
  CLOAK colla (vestment, actually a past participle "borne, worn" used as a noun). GREY-CLOAK Sindacollo, Singollo (so in Silm:421; MR:217 has Sindicollo. Note that colla has become #collo because -o is a masculine ending.) (Thingol). Verb "to cloak": fanta- (to veil, mantle) -MR:385, VT43:22
  CLOSED pahta (NOT CLOSED - see OPEN) -VT39:23 
  CLOTH lannë (tissue) -LAN
  CLOUD fanya (white cloud; pl. fanyar is attested), lumbo (pl lumbor is attested. In LT1:259, it is stated that this word applies to a "dark lowering cloud"), ungo (dark shadow). (In ancient times the Elves probably also used the word fana [in Etym fána] for "cloud" or "veil", but in Quenya it came to denote the visible bodies in which the Valar manifested themselves to incarnates. When fana no longer meant "cloud", this meaning was evidently transferred to the derivative fanya, originally probably meaning "white" or "white thing".) UPPER AIRS AND CLOUDS fanyarë (skies) -SPAN, MC:222, UÑG, Nam, RGEO:67, SYAD, RGEO:74, MC:223
  CLUSTERS (of flowers) see BLOSSOM.
  COAT vacco (jacket) -GL:21
  COBWEB línë -SLIG
  CODE OF SIGNS tengwesta (system of signs, grammar); GESTURE-CODE hwermë -WJ:394 cf. TEK, WJ:395
  COLD (adj) ringa (so in MC:222 and LT1:265; Etym has ringë, which is also a noun meaning "cold lake/pool in the mountains"), (damp, chilly), yelwa; COLD (noun?) niquë, also vb niquë- "it is cold, it freezes"; BE COLD, CHILL (of weather) nicu- -MC:222, RINGI, LT1:260, WJ:417
  COLLAPSE (vb) talta- (slip, slide down), COLLAPSE (noun) atalantë (downfall) -MC:223
  COLLECT hosta- (gather, assemble); COLLECTION OF LEAVES olassië (foliage) -KHOTH/MC:223, Letters:282
  COME #tul- (cited in source as tulin "I come", 1st pers. aorist); perfect #utúlië and future #tuluva are attested (the latter in entuluva "shall come again". Tulin may obsolete tulu- in LT1:270). COME AWAY hótuli- ("so as to leave a place or group and join another in the thought or place of the speaker") -TUL, LotR:1003, Silm:229, WJ:368
  COMMAND *can- (so when used of persons; when used with things as object, this verb means demand) -PM:361-362 (where the stem KAN is mentioned; the Quenya verb is not directly cited as such, but seems implied by Tolkien's discussion of how this stem was used in Quenya.)
  COMMANDER cáno ("usually as the title of a lesser chief, especially one acting as the deputy of one higher in rank", PM:345) (governor, chieftain) -PM:345, VT45:19
  COMMANDMENT axan (law, rule, as primarily proceeding from Eru). Pl. axani is attested. -WJ:399, VT39:30, 23
  COMMERSE mancalë -MBAKH
  COMMUNICATION centa (as in Ósanwë-centa, Communication of Thought. In other contexts, centa must be translated "enquiry" or *"essay") -MR:415, VT39:23
  COMPACT vérë (troth, oath, bond) Pl. probably *vérer not *véri; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste", pl tyáver.) -WED
  COMPEL mauya-; BE COMPELLED TO DO SOMETHING horya- (have an impulse, set vigorously out to do); COMPULSION mausta -MBAW, VT45:22
  COMPLAINT nur (growl) -LT1:263
  COMPLETELY aqua (fully, altogether, wholly) -WJ:392
  CONCEAL halya- (veil, screen from light) -SKAL
  CONCEALED furin or hurin (hidden) -LT2:340 
  CONCEPTION nóa (pl. nówi), nó (nów-) -NOWO
  CONCERN #ap- (given as aorist stem apë) (to affect, to touch one). CONCERNING pa, pá (as regards, touching) -VT44:26
  CONCH hyalma (shell, horn of Ulmo) -SYAL
  CONCLUDE  telya- (transitive) (wind up, finish); CONCLUSION telma (further defined as "anything used to finish off a work or an affair") -WJ:411
  CONFUSED rúcina (shattered, disordered) -MC:223
CONSONANT #pataca (only pl. patacar is attested), #lambetengwë (literally "tongue-sign"; only pl. lambetengwi is attested; this refers to consonants as tengwi or phonemes), also náva-tengwë ("ñava-") (literally "mouth-sign"; only pl. náva-tengwi is attested; the shorter form #návëa pl. návëar was also used, but Fëanor replaced these terms with #pataca). Yet another term for "consonant" was #tapta tengwë "impeded element". (Only pl. tapta tengwi is attested; we would rather expect *taptë tengwi with the pl. form of the adjective. The nominal pl. of the adjective, taptar, was used in the same sense as tapta tengwi.) Tolkien also notes: "Since...in the mode of spelling commonly used the full signs were consonantal, in ordinary non-technical use tengwar [sg tengwa, see LETTER] became equivalent to 'consonants'." Cf. also surya "spirant consonant" and punta "stopped consonant". -VT39:8, VT39:16, 17, WJ:396, SUS, PUT (see PUS)
  CONSPICOUS minda (prominent) -MIN
  CONSTRUCTION tanwë (craft, thing made, construction, devise), ataquë (building) -TAN, TAK
  CONTEMPTIBLE faica (mean) -SPAY
  CONTINUAL vórima (changed from vorima) (enduring, repeated); CONTINUALLY voro (also voro- in compounds) -BOR
  CONTINUOUS vórëa (enduring, repeated), also vórima; CONTINUOUS REPETITION vorongandelë ("vorogandele" in the published Etymologies is a misreading; see VT45:7) (harping on one tune) -VT45:7, LIN1
  CONTINUANT - the term #mussë tengwë "soft element" (only attested in the pl.: mussë tengwi) covers vowels, semi-vowels (y, w) and continuants (l, r, m, n). -VT39:17
  CONTRARY, ON THE - see NO
  CONTROL (verb) #tur- (cited in source as turin, "I...control", 1st pers. aorist) (pa.t. turnë) (wield, govern); IN CONTROL OF (possessing) arwa (followed by gen, e.g. *i heru arwa i nerion "the lord in control of the men") -TUR, 3AR
  COOKED FOOD apsa (meat) -AP 
  COPING-STONE see FINISH.
  COPPER urus (urust-), cf. POLISHED COPPER calarus (calarust-). In the Etymologies, the word rauta was originally defined "copper", but Tolkien changed the definition to "metal" in general. The earliers material has COPPER = tambë; OF COPPER tambina. Etym has COPPER-COLOURED aira (ruddy, red) -VT41:10, RAUTÂ, LT1:250, 256, 268, GAY
  CORE endë (centre, middle). -NÉD, ÉNED
  CORNFLOWER menelluin (lit. *"sky-blue") -Pictures of J. R. R. Tolkien
  CORPOREAL sarcuva (bodily) -LT2:347; this is "Qenya"
  CORPSE quelet  (pl. queletsi), loico (dead body); CORPSE-CANDLE loicolícuma -KWEL, MC:223
  CORRUSCATION russë (†swordblade) -RUS
  COTTAGE - LT2:336 has os(t) "house and cottage", but this word is probably obsolete - osto means "city" or "fortress" in Tolkien's later Quenya. 
  COUNT - the stem not- can be isolated from the word for "countable", see below. It actually occurs in Etym, but is glossed "reckon" instead. COUNT UP onot- (cf. not- "reckon" - the perfect of both these verbs would presumably be *onótië), COUNTABLE #nótima (isolated from únótimë "countless, not-countable, numberless", sg. únótima). NOT COUNTING hequa (leaving aside, excluding, except) -NOT, Nam, RGEO:67, VT39:14, WJ:364, 365
  COUNTLESS únótima (pl. únótimë is attested) (numberless, not-countable, uncountable) -VT39:14, Nam, RGEO:67
  COUNTRY nórë (land, race, nation, native land, family), #nórië (only attested in a compound, in the ablative case: sindanóriello, "grey-country-from", "out of a grey country". -NÔ, Nam/RGEO:67
  COURAGE huorë (only attested as a proper name: Huorë, lit. "heart-vigour") -KHÔ-N
  COURSE tië (line, direction, way, path, road) -TE3, RGEO:67
  COURT paca (paved floor) -GL:63
  COVER topë (aorist sg) (pa.t. tompë), untúpa- (lit. "down-roof") -TOP, Nam/RGEO:67
  COVERING telmë (hood) -TEL
  COW (milch cow) yaxë. (An alternative form yaxi, simply glossed "cow", looks like a plural in LotR-style Quenya, unless it is a feminine form like tári "queen" and heri "lady") -GL:36
  CRACK ciris (probably ciriss-) (cleft) -LT2:335
  CRAFT tanwë (thing made, device, construction); curwë. CRAFTSMAN tano (smith) -KUR
  CREATE onta (pa.t. ónë, ontanë) -ONO
  CREATURE onna; DEFORMED/HIDEOUS CREATURE ulundo (monster); VERY TERRIBLE CREATURE rauco -ONO, ÚLUG, VT39:10
  CRESCENT cúnë (bow) -LT1:271
  CREST (of wave) wingë (wingi-) (foam, spindrift). LT1:256 gives ormë "crest, summit", but in Tolkien's later Quenya ormë means "wrath, haste, violence, rushing". CRESTED WAVE, WAVE-CREST falma -WIG/LT1:273, PHAL, VT42:15
  CROOKED hwarin; raica (bent, wrong), rempa (hooked), cauca (bent, humped) -SKWAR, RÁYAK/VT39:7, REP, LT1:260
  CROSSBAR hwarma -SKWAR
  CROSSING tarna (passage, #ford) -LT2:347
  CROW quáco (so in WJ:395; Etym has corco) -WJ:395, KORKA (see KARKA)
  CROWD sanga (throng, press); rimbë (host) -STAG/Silm:438, RIM
  CROWN rië; CROWNED rína; STAR-CROWNED, CROWNED WITH STARS (a name of Taniquetil) Elerrína (so in Silm; Etym has Elerína) -RIG, EL, Silm:42
  CRUEL nwalca (Though spelt this way also in Etym, nwalca must be from older *ngwalca, for the stem is ÑGWAL. In Tengwar spelling, the letter nwalmë (< older ngwalmë) should be used to transcribe the initial nw of nwalca.) -ÑGWAL
  CRUMBLE #ruxa- (only part. ruxala is attested) -MC:222 cf 215 
  CRY OF TRIUMPH (noun) yello (call, shout) -GYEL, VT45:16
  CRYSTAL SUBSTANCE silima (a substance Fëanor alone knew how to make; the Silmarils were made of it. Etymologically, the word apparently means simply *"white-shining thing", or perhaps *"[substance] apt to shine white".) -RGEO:73, Silm:437
  CUNNING - LT1:253 has findë, finië, but these words may not be valid in Tolkien's later Quenya (in Etym, findë means "tress, lock of hair").
  CUP yulma -Nam, RGEO:67
  CUPOLA coromindo (dome), telluma (altered from earlier telumë under influence of a Valarin word; pl. tellumar is attested) (dome), coromindo (dome) -Nam/WJ:399/411, KOR, KOP
  CURUFIN Curufinwë, short form Curvo. (His "mother-name", never used in narrative, was Atarincë.) -PM:352, 353
  CURUNÍR Curumo (Saruman) -UT:393, 401
  CURVED cúna (bent; cúna is also used as a verbal stem, see BEND) -MC:223
  CUSHION nirwa -NID
  CUSTODY mando (safe keeping); CASTLE OF CUSTODY Mandos (Mandost-) -MR:350
  CUT (vb) rista-; venië (infinitive? stem #ven-?) (shape), CUT (noun) rista, venwë (shape), CUT OFF (and get rid of or lose a portion:) auciri-, (so as to have or or use a required portion:) hóciri- -RIS, LT1:254, WJ:365-366, 368
  CYCLE randa (age) -RAD

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  DAERON see DAIRON
  DAGGER sicil (knife), naica -SIK, GL:37
  DAILY ilaurëa (another form, ilyarëa [read *ilyárëa?] and its archaic variant ilyázëa, was apparently abandoned by Tolkien) -VT43:18
  DAIRON Sairon -GL:29 (called Daeron in the published Silmarillion)
  DALE nal, nallë (dell); DALE-SPRITES tavar (pl. tavarni). In Tolkien's later Quenya, tavar means "wood" (as material). See, however, DRYAD. -LT1:261, LT1:267
  DAMP ringa (chilly, cold) -LT1:265
  DANCE (verb) lilta- -LILT
  DANGER #raxë (pl. ablative raxellor attested). In another version of the text in question, Tolkien used #raxalë (pl. abl. raxalellor) instead. -VT44:9
  DANGLE linga- (hang) -LING
  DARE verya- (cf. BOLD) -BER
  DARK (adj.) morna (gloomy, sombre, black), nulla (dusky, obscure), lóna (Note: a homophone means "island"), lúrëa (overcast), DARK OR HIDDEN tumna (low-lying, low, profound, deep). DARK (noun) hui (fog, murk, night); DARK, DARKNESS mornië, mórë (blackness, night) mor, lúmë (Note: lúmë also means "hour, time"), lómë (night, twilight, gloom), huinë (shadow, gloom). (See SLAYER for DARKNESS-SLAYER.) DARK ELVES Moriquendi, Morimor (Lómëarni in LT1:259 is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya); DARK ONE (=Morgoth) morion; DARK WEATHER lúrë; 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 yendë, yen, -iel (suffix, e.g. Uinéniel "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 yeldë was restored as the independent word for "daughter" at the same time and is to be preferred to yendë, yen. Distinguish -riel in Altáriel (Galadriel), which does not mean "daughter" and becomes -riell- before an ending. -YÔ, YEL, 182/469
  DAWN ára (obsoleting órë in LT1:264; this word means "rising" or "heart" in LotR-style Quenya), †amaurëa (early day). See also TWILIGHT. -AR1, MC:223
  DAY aurë (sunlight; Etym gives arë, ari- instead), arya (= 12 hours), ré (= 24 hours, counted from sunset to sunset), sana (= also 24 hours, but this is "Qenya"), DAYTIME arië, EARLY DAY †amaurëa (dawn), DAYLIGHT - LT1:254 gives calma, but this word is defined "lamp" in LotR. LAST DAY OF YEAR quantien, DAYSPRING tuilë -AR1/VT45:6, Silm:229/234/439, LotR:1141, LT1:250, MC:223, YEN
  DEAD firin (= dead by natural cause), qualin (related to qualmë "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 qualmë, unqualë (agony; according to VT45:24, Tolkien changed this word to anqualë), #fírië, #effírië (basically "expiration", attested with the ending -mmo in fíriemmo, effíriemmo "of our death"), nuru (personalized Nuru = Mandos), fairë (natural death [as act]) (Note: fairë also means "radiance" and "phantom", and even [in LT1:250] "free"), urdu -KWAL/LT1:264, VT43:34, ÑGUR, PHIR, LT2:342
  DEBT #rohta (attested in pl. form rohtar). Used in draft version of Tolkien's Quenya Lord's prayer, this word may refer to moral rather than financial "debt"; it may also cover "trespass". This is probably also true of variant words for "debt" occurring in other versions: #lucassë, #lucië, #luhta (all attested with the ending -mmar to express "our debts/trespasses"). -VT43:19
  DEBTOR #rocindo, #rucindo (isolated from rocindollomman, rucindollomman "from our debtors"). Used in one of the draft versions of Tolkien's Quenya version of the Lord's Prayer, the "debtors" denoted by this word may be sinners rather than simply people owing others money. Another version of the Prayer has #lucando or #lucindo as the word for "debtor" or "one who trespasses" (attested in the plural: lucandor, lucindor). -VT43:20
  DECLIVITY pendë (downslape, slope) -PEN
  DEEP tumna (low-lying, low, profound, dark or hidden), núra; DEEP VALLEY tumbo (dark vale); DEEP VALE imbë (dell) (Note: imbë is also the preposition "between"); DEEP SHADOW huinë (gloom) -NÛ, TUB, VT45:18, VT41:8
  DEFORMED CREATURE ulundo (hideous creature, monster) -ÚLUG
  DELIVER (= *save) etelehta- (the alternative verb etrúna-, eterúna- was possibly abandoned by Tolkien; see FREE [verb]). -VT43:23, VT44:9
  DELL imbë (deep vale) (Note: imbë is also the preposition "between"), nal, nallë (dale) -VT45:18, LT1:261
  DEMAND can- (so when used with things as object, in effect = ask for; otherwise command, order) -PM:361-362 (where only a stem KAN is mentioned)
  DEMON rauco (pl. #raucar, isolated from Valaraukar (Valaraucar) "Balrogs". LT1:250 gives araukë; WJ:415 has rauco and arauco, defined as "a powerful, hostile, and terrible creature".) See also ORC. -RUK, Silm:436, WJ:415 
  DENTAL SERIES tincotéma (t-series) -LotR:1154
  DENY lala- -LA (Note: a homophone means "laugh", but the past tense forms may differ. See LAUGH.)
  DEPART vanya- (pa.t. vannë). (This verb Tolkien may seem to have been abandoned in favour of auta-; see PASS.) Lendë pa.t. of lelya/lenna "go" is also glossed as "departed". DEPARTED (adj) vanwa (gone, vanished, lost, past, no longer to be had, dead) -WAN, LED cf. VT45:27, WJ:366, Nam
  DEPRIVE OF LIBERTY avalerya- (bind, make fast, restrain) -VT41:5, 6
  DEPRIVED #racina (only pl. racinë is attested) (stripped); DEPRIVED OF úna (destitute, forlorn); DEPRIVED SIGN #racina tengwë (only pl. racinë tengwi is attested). Also translated "stripped sign", this was in early Elvish analysis of Quenya the term for a consonant with no following vowel; the vowel was held to have disappeared or been omitted. -VT39:16, 14
  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 LotR-style Quenya it simply means "son".) -ÑGYO(N)
  DESERT erumë (cf. Eruman a desert north-east of Valinor, though Eruman is used in an entirely different way elsewhere; see HEAVENS.) -ERE
  DESERTED erda (solitary) -LT1:269
  DESIRE (vb) #mer- (cited in the form merë, evidently the 3rd person aorist; pa.t. given as mernë) (want, wish); DESIRE (noun) írë, náma (= "a desire" or "a judgement"), námië (= "a (single) desire" or "a (single) judgement"), milmë (greed). (Note: írë also means "when". The stem YES yields a word yesta "desire", but this clashes with the corrected/updated form of esta - see FIRST.)  DESIREABLE írima (loveable), DESIRER Irmo (name of a Vala). DESIRING TO START mína (eager to go), also verb DESIRE TO GO IN SOME DIRECTION mína- (to wish to go to a place, make for it, have some end in view). -MER, ID, VT41:13, MIL-IK, YES, WJ:403, VT39:11
  DESPISE #nattir- -VT44:8
  DESTINE martya-; DESTINY maranwë -MBARAT
  DESTITUTE úna (deprived of, forlorn); DESTITUTE OF ú (usually followed by genitive: ú calo *"destitute of light [cala]") (without). -VT39:14
  DETERMINANT VOWEL sundóma (lit. *"base-vowel, root-vowel". Christopher Tolkien notes: "Very briefly indeed, the Quendian consonantal base or sundo was characterized by a 'determinant vowel' or sundóma: thus the sundo KAT has a medial sundóma 'A', and TALAT has the sundóma repeated. In derivative forms the sundóma might be placed before the first consonant, e.g. ATALAT.") -WJ:319
  DEVICE tanwë (craft, thing made, construction); SKILLFUL [?DEVICE - Tolkien's handwriting was illegible] curo (curu-) -TAN, VT41:10
  DEVISE auta- (originate, invent) -GAWA
  DEW rossë (fine rain, spray), rin. DEWY nítë (moist) -ROS/Letters:282, LT1:265, NEI
  DEXTEROUS formaitë (right-handed) -PHOR
  DIACRITIC tehta (mark [in writing], sign) (In LotR:1155, the word is applied to the supralinear vowel-marks of Fëanorian writing, and pl. tehtar is attested.) -TEK, LotR:1155
  DIALECT - Tolkien notes that the word lambë "tongue" 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 separate languages of any people or region" (WJ:394). Thus, lambë can hardly be used for "dialect" in Exilic Quenya. Cf. also VT39:15, where lambë is said to mean "the language or dialect of a particular or people".
  DICTUM eques (pl. equessi) (proverbial dictum, quotation, saying) -WJ:392
  DIE fir- (fade) -MC:223, VT43:34
  DIPHTHONG ocamna; in the source providing this word Tolkien rejected his earlier form osamnar (pl.); compare the Etymologies form #samna (only pl samnar is attested. Distinct in Tengwar spelling from samna "wooden post", that is spelt with initial súlë instead of silmë). Another word for "dipthong" is given as ohlon (pl. ohloni is attested); the latter term was used of vocalic diphthongs and "consonantal diphthongs" (like mb) alike. -VT44:13, 14, SAM, VT39:9
  DIM TO SEE néca (vague, faint) (Pl nécë is attested) -MC:223, 222
  DIMNESS mordo (shadow, obscurity, stain, smear) -VT45:35, MOR
  DIRE aica (fell, terrible, sharp) -PM:347
  DIRECTION tië (course, line, pathway, road); DESIRE TO GO IN SOME DIRECTION mína- (to wish to go to a place, make for it, have some end in view). - TE3/RGEO:67, VT39:11
  DIRTY vára (soiled) -WA3
  DISAPPEAR vanya- (pa.t. vannë. Note: a homophone of vanya means "beautiful") (go, depart) -WAN
  DISCOLOURED púrëa (smeared) -MC:223
  DISEMBODIED SPIRIT see SPIRIT 
  DISGUST - feel disgust at feuya- -PHEW
  DISH venë (small boat, vessel) -LT1:254
  DISORDERED rúcina (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), Eruva (adj. referring to the divinity of Eru himself), DIVINITY valassë -BAL, VT44:18
  DO #car- (make, build; see MAKE for various attested forms of this verb); NOT DO #um- (cited in the form umin "I do not", 1st pers. aorist; also short uin) (pa.t. úmë) (This verb is also used = "not be", see BE); DO NOT! (imperative) vá! (also = I will not); DON'T áva, avá, alalyë (the last form incorporates the ending -lyë "thou", hence "do not thou [do something]"). DON'T DO IT! áva carë! SET VIGOROUSLY OUT TO DO horya- (be compelled to do something, have an impulse) -KAR, UGU/UMU, WJ:371, VT44:8, VT45:22
  DOER tyaro (actor, agent) -KYAR
  DOG huo -KHUG
  DOME telluma (pl. tellumar is attested) (cupola), coromindo (cupola) -Nam/WJ:399, KOR
  DON'T áva, avá; DON'T DO IT! áva carë! -WJ:371
  DOOM manar, mandë (final end, fate, fortune, final bliss); umbar- (umbart-) (fate) In the story of Túrin 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 Máhanaxar (a foreign word in Quenya, adopted and adapted from Valarin.) -MAN/MANAD, MBARAT/VT45:5, Silm:261, 269, LotR:1157, WJ:399
  DOOR, see GATE; *DOOR OF NIGHT: the translation Ando Lómen is given in VT45:28 (citing a deleted entry in the Etymologies). Since Tolkien later decided that the genitive ending should be -o rather than -n, and moreover equipped lómë "night" with the stem-form lómi-, we should perhaps read *Ando Lómio.
  DORIATH #Lestanórë (only gen. Lestanórëo is attested) -WJ:369
  DORLÓMIN Lóminórë -WJ:145
  DOT pica (small spot), tixë (tiny mark, point), amatixë, nuntixë (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
  DOUGH maxë -MASAG
  DOVE cucua -KÛ (in the Etymologies as printed in LR, this noun is erroneously split into two words, "ku" and "kua" instead of "kukua"; see VT45:24)
  DOWN undu (under, beneath); DOWN-FALL atalantë, atalantië (collapse); DOWN-FALLEN atalantëa (pl atalantië is attested) (ruinous); DOWN BELOW (adv.) nún (underneath); "DOWN-LICK" (i.e., cover completely)  #undulav- (only pa.t. undulávë is attested) -UNU, NÛ, MC:222, 223/Letters:347, RGEO:67/Nam
  DOWNSLOPE pendë (slope, declivity) -PEN/PÉNED
  DRAGON lócë (serpent, snake; "so do the Eldar name the worms of Melko[r]", LT2:85), angulócë, fenumë; WINGED DRAGON rámalócë; FIRE-DRAGON urulócë (pl. Urulóci is attested in Silm:138, there capitalized; surprisingly, Urulóci is used as a singular form in Silm:255); SPARK-DRAGON fëalócë; FISH-DRAGON lingwilócë (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 #tuc- (cited as tucin "I draw", 1st pers. aorist), saca- (pull), DRAW WATER calpa- (bale out, scoop out); DRAWING #halmë (isolated from Turuhalmë "Log-drawing") -TUK, KALPA, VT43:23, LotR:270
  DREAD aista- -GAYAS
  DREAM (noun) olor, olórë, lor; DREAMY olosta, olórëa -LOS, LT1:259, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308, UT:396
  DRINK (vb) #suc- (cited in source as sucin "I drink", 1st pers. aorist); DRINK OF THE VALAR limpë (so glossed under LIP; "drink of the fairies" in LT1:258) or míruvórë (LT1:261); DRINKING yulmë (carousal) (Note: a homophone means "smouldering heat"); DRINKING-VESSEL yulma (cup), sungwa. -SUK, WJ:416/Nam
  DRIP lipte- -LT1:258
  DROP (noun) limba; LITTLE DROP liptë -LIB, LT1:258
  DROWNED quorin (choked) -LT1:264
  DROWSY lorda (slumbrous) -LT1:259
  DRÛ rú (wose), DRÚADAN Rúatan (pl. Rúatani is given but seems perfectly regular) -UT:385
  DRY (prob. adj not vb) parca; VERY DRY amparca -PÁRAK, VT45:5
  DRYAD tavaro, tavaron (m.), tavaril (f.) (compare the tavarni or "dale-sprites" in Tolkien's earlier material), nandin (further defined as "fay of the country") -TÁWAR, LT1:261
  DUILIN Tulindo; HOUSE OF DUILIN Nossë Tuilinda (Tuilinda must be an adjectival form of Tuilindo) -LT2:338
  DÚNEDAIN Núnatani -WJ:386
  DUSK histë (also hísë, but this clashes with a word meaning "fog, mist"), lómë (night, gloom, darkness, twilight) -LT1:255
  DUSKY nulla (dark, obscure) -NDUL 
  DUST asto -ÁS-AT
  DWARF Nauco (pl. Naucor is attested; LT1:261 gives nauca instead of nauco), Norno (Naucalië, Nornalië = the whole people of the Dwarves) Casar (pl. Casari or Casári; partitive plural Casalli; the whole people of the Dwarves being called Casallië. According to WJ, Casar - Quenyaized form of Dwarvish Khazâd - "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-dûm) -NAUK, WJ:388, 389
  DWELLER mardo, DWELLING (noun) mar (mas-) (home), DWELLING (adj) #farnë (a pl form? Sg farna? Only attested in the compound orofarnë "mountain-dwelling". Note: farnë is also the pa.t. of farya- "suffice"); DWELLING-PLACE nórë (land, region where certain people live, nation, native land, family); DWELLING UNDERGROUND hróta (artificial cave, rockhewn hall) -LT1:251, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224, NDOR, PM:365
  DWELLING mar (mard-) (home) -VT45:33
  DWINDLE píca- (part. pícala is attested) (lessen) -MC:223, 222                 

  <E>
  EACH ilya (every, all of a particular group of things), máca (a very early "Qenya" word of doubtful authority) -VT39:20, GL:41
  EAGER TO GO mína- (desiring to start) -VT39:11
  EAGLE soron, sornë (Þ) (pl. sorni) (So in Etym; Letters:427 has sorno, thorno, LT1:266 also has sor. Soron/sorno  obsoletes ea, earen in LT1:251 and LT2:338 - besides, ëa means "is, exists" in Tolkien's later Quenya.) KING OF EAGLES Sorontur, "EAGLE-HORN" (a great height in Númenor) Sorontil -THOR, Letters:427, UT:465
  EAR: The form lár in the entry LAS2 in the Etymologies appears to mean "ear", though the wording is not quite clear.
  EARLY arinya; EARLY DAY †amaurëa (dawn); EARLY MORN tuilë (dayspring, spring-time) -AR1, MC:223, TUY       
  EARTH cemen (soil). (Note: at the time Tolkien wrote Etym, he thought of cemen as the genitive of cén, but later cemen evidently became the nominative form, as it had been in earlier writings [LT1:257]. In Silm:433, it is said that cemen [kemen] refers to "the Earth as a flat floor beneath menel, the heavens". LT1:257, reproducing early material, also has cemi "earth, soil, land" and Kémi "Mother Earth".) Locative cemendë "on earth" in VT43:17. EARTH-QUEEN Kementári (Yavanna's title); EARTHEN, OF EARTH cemna. (LR:363 gves "kemina", but according to VT45:19, this is a misreading for "kemna" in Tolkien's manuscript.) EARTH (= world) Ambar (world) (Tolkien equated Ambar with Oikoumene, a Greek word denoting "world" considered as "the inhabited world of Men". But ambar also seems to mean "doom", q.v. MR:337 (cf. WJ:419) has Imbar instead of Ambar; the literal meaning of both words is said to be "habitation") EARTH-DWELLERS -LT2:343 gives indi, rendered "earthdwellers" and said to be another word for "men", but this is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. -KEM/Silm:433/LT1:257/VT44:34, MBAR cf. Letters:283 or SD:409            
  EAST rómen (allative Rómenna as a region of Númenor and ablative Rómello in Namárië are capitalized), róna; EASTERN rómenya (Entar, Entardar "Outer Lands, Middle-earth" is also glossed as "East" once, as opposed to the Blessed Realm of the West.) The words órë "dawn, Sunrise, East" and its corresponding adjective órëa (LT1:264) are probably not valid words in LotR-style Quenya; see DAWN. Neither can Ostar "East" be a valid word; see GATE. EAST-VICTOR Rómendacil (one of the Kings of Gondor) EAST-LANDS Orrostar (a region in Númenor). EAST-HELPER (masc. name) Rómestámo, Róme(n)star (so in PM:384, 391; probably ?Rómenstar must always become Rómestar, but Tolkien cited the form as Róme(n)star to indicate the connection with rómen "east") -RÔ/LotR:1157, UT:463, Nam, EN, LotR:1075, 1081, UT:165, 459, PM:384, 391)
  EAT mat-, mata- (pa.t. mantë is given) -MAT, VT39:7
  ECHO láma (ringing sound - so in Etym, but see SOUND), nalláma (In Etym, the second a of the latter word has an undefined diacritic here represented by ´.)  ECHOING lámina -LAM
  EDDY hwinya- (swirl, gyrate); hwindë (whirlpool) -SWIN
  EDGE réna, ríma -REG, RÎ
  EGLATH (or EGLAIN, EGLADHRIM) Heceldi (the "Forsaken" Elves, especially the Eldar left in Beleriand; sg Hecel is given. MR:170 has Ecelli.) -WJ:365 cf. Silm:68
  EIGHT tolto -TOL1-OTH/OT
  EIGHTEEN nahta -PE14:17
  ELBOW ólemë -LT1:258
  ELEPHANT andamunda -MBUD
  ELEVEN minquë -MINIK-W-, LT1:260
  ELF quendë (generic, seldom used in the sg; pl Quendi is the usual form; there are gender-specific forms quendu m. and quendi f., but they seem to be rare; pl. quendur, quendir is attested), Elda (originally generic, but later [MET] used of Elves of the Three Kindreds [Noldor, Vanyar, Teleri] only. That was at least the proper usage: Elda was the normal word for "elf" in Valinor, as all Elves there were Eldar. An archaic variant of Elda was Eldo.) ELVES OF AMAN Amanyar (sg #Amanya), ELVES WHO REFUSED TO JOIN IN THE WESTWARD MARCH (from Cuiviénen) Avari (sg Avar in WJ:371; Avar or Avaro in Etym), also called Avamanyar "those who did not go to Aman, because they would not" (distinguish Úmanyar, Úamanyar, Alamanyar "those who did not in the event reach Aman", though they did join in the march from Cuiviénen; these are also called Heceldi or Ecelli, see EGLATH). See also DARK ELVES, GREEN-ELVES, GREY-ELVES, HIGH-ELVES, LIGHT-ELVES, SEA-ELVES, LITTLE ELF. Cf. also ELVENHOME Eldamar, Elendë. ELF-PEOPLE Eldalië, ELVISH Eldarinwa (adj only; "Elvish" meaning Elvish language is simply Eldarin. Properly, these words for "Elvish" apply to the Tree Kindreds only, not to all the Quendi.) Quenderin ("Elvish" referring to all the Quendi, "Quendian"; this remained a learned word) -WJ:361/KWEN(ED), MR:229 ELED, Silm:424, AB/WJ:371/Silm:65/MR:163, WJ:363, Silm:23/392, MR:415, WJ:407
 ELF-FRIEND Elendil (actually meaning *"star-friend". Tolkien notes: "It is not surprising that the Edain...found it difficult to discern whether words and names containing the element el referred to the stars or to the Elves. This is seen in the name Elendil, which was meant to bear the sense "Elf-friend". Properly in Quenya it meant 'a lover or student of the stars'... 'Elf-friend' would have been more correctly represented by Quen(den)dil or Eldandil.") -WJ:410  
 ELF-LOVER #Eldameldo (pl Eldameldor in WJ:417)
 ELF-STONE Elessar (Aragorn's royal name, prob. *Elessard-, cf. STONE. The literal meaning is *Star-stone, not Elf-stone - but the Edain confused elen "star" and elda "elf". Cf. Elendil; see ELF-FRIEND above.) -LotR:395, 897
  ELM-TREE alalmë, lalmë; LAND OF ELMS Alalminórë (Warwickshire) -ÁLAM/LT1:249, LÁLAM
  ELONGATED taina (stretched, elongated, extended) -VT39:7
  EMBER yúla (smouldering wood) -YUL
  EMINENT MAN aráto (champion) -Silm:428
  EMIT LIGHT faina- -PHAY
  EMOTION felmë (impulse) -VT41:19
  EMPTY lusta (void), cumna -LUS, KUM
  ENCHANT luhta-; ENCHANTMENT lúcë -LUK
  ENCLOSURE panda; CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE corin -PAD, KOR
  END (noun) metta, mentë, tyel (stem tyeld- as in the pl. tyeldi, misread as "tyelde" in the printed Etymologies; see VT45:25), tyelma, telu; THE ENDING OF THE WORLD Ambar-metta, ambarmetta; END (vb) tele- (intransitive) (finish - so in WJ:411 - LT1:267 gives telu-), tyel- (cease), PUT AN END TO metya-, HAVE SOME END IN VIEW mína- (desire to go in some direction, wish to go to a place, make for it) -LotR:1003/VT44:36, MET, LT1:267, WJ:411, KYEL/VT45:25, VT39:11
  ENDLESS PERIOD oio -UT:317
  ENDURANCE voronwië (lasting quality); ENDURING voronwa (long-lasting), vórëa (continuous, lasting), vórima (continuous, repeated) -BORÓN, VT45:7
  ENEMY cotumo -KOT
  ENGLAND - see FAËRY.
  ENOUGH farëa (sufficient) -PHAR
  ENQUIRY centa (as in Essecenta Eldarinwa, probably meaning *"Enquiry into Eldarin Names", as Tolkien described the work as an "Enquiry into the origins of Elvish names for Elves"; cf. also Osanwe-centa, translated "enquiry into the communication of thought". Another possible translation of centa may be *"essay".) -MR:415, VT39:23
  ENTRANCE TO HARBOUR  londë (road [in sea], also translated "haven" or "fairway") -LOD/VT45:28
  ENVELOPE (noun) vaiya, vaia (both with alternative, possibly older [MET] forms in w-). -WAY
  EXPIRE fírë- (perf. fírië ["has breathed forth"] is attested; *ifírië may be the more usual form) -MR:250 
  ERRANT ránen -RAN
  ESCAPE (vb) usin (glossed "he escapes" in LT:251, but in LotR-style Quenya it would have to mean, if anything, *"I escape" - 1st pers. aorist); ESCAPE (noun) uswë (issue) -LT1:251
 *ESSAY see *ENQUIRY.
  ESTABLISH tulca- (fix, set up. Note: there is a homophone meaning "firm, steadfast, strong, immoveable".) -LT1:270 cf. TULUK
  ETERNAL oira -OY
  EVENING andúnë (sunset, west), sinyë -MC:222, THIN
  EVER oi, voro, vor (continually) (pref. #oio-, vor-, voro-), EVERWHITE, EVER-SNOW-WHITE Oiolossë (a name for Taniquetil; gen Oiolossëo is attested in Nam, where it has an ablatival meaning); EVERSUMMER Oiolairë, EVERLASTING oia, vorima; EVERLASTING [?AGE] (Tolkien's handwriting was illegible) oirë, oialë; FOR EVER, EVERLASTINGLY oialë (evidently the noun just mentioned used as an adverb), tennoio -OY, UT:458, BOR, LT1:250/273, Nam/RGEO:67, Silm:429, UT:317
  EVERY ilya (each, all of a particular group of things), máca (a very early "Qenya" word of doubtful authority) -VT39:20, GL:41
  EVERYBODY ilquen; EVERYTHING ilqua. For "everything" there is also ilu as a word for the universe: all, the whole; of the universe also including God and all souls and spirits, which are not properly included in the term Eä. -WJ:372, IL/VT45:24, VT39:20
  EVIL (adj.) ulca, úmëa, úra (nasty), EVILEYED henulca; EVIL-SMELLING saura (Þ) (foul, putrid) - in one attested compound also #sauri-; see FOUL. EVIL as noun: ulco (stem ulcu- as in the ablative ulcullo; another version of the relevant text uses úro as the noun "evil"), FREE FROM EVIL aman (see BLESSED). -VT43:23-24, SD:68, 72, UGU, THUS, VT43:23-24, WJ:399
  EXALTED ONES Aratar (pl; sg #Arata). The Aratar are the mightiest of the Valar: Manwë, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna, Aulë, Mandos, Nienna, and Oromë. Aratar is also rendered "High Ones, The Supreme" -Silm 32/381, WJ:402 
  EXCEPT hequa (leaving aside, not counting, excluding) -WJ:364, 365
  EXCLUDE hehta- (pa.t. hehtanë is given but seems perfectly regular) (put aside, leave out,  abandon, forsake); EXCLUDING hequa (leaving aside, not counting, except) -WJ:364, 365
  EXIST ëa (is), pa.t. engë -VT39:6, 7, VT43:38
  EXPAND palu-, palya- (spread, extend, open wide); EXPANSIVE palla (wide) -PAL
  EXPIRE fírë- (originally used of "one sighing or releasing a deep breath", but also used of Míriel when she "breathed forth" and died; later used of the death of mortals. Perf. fírië is attested; *ifírië with prefix sundóma is probably also a possible form.) -MR:250
  EXTEND palu-, palya- (spread, expand, open wide); EXTENDED taina (lengthened, stretched, elongated); EXTENSION tailë (lengthening) -PAL, TAY
  EYE hen (hend-) (normal pl. hendi as well as the dual form #hendu are attested [isolated from hendumaica, WJ:337]; #hendu would be used of a natural pair of eyes). SHARP-EYE hendumaica, EYES OF HEARTSEASE (a name of the pansy) Helinyetillë -KHEN-D-E, WJ:337, LT1:262
  EYRIE sornion (Þ) (lit. gen.pl "of eagles"?). -LT1:266. (LT1:251 gives ëaren, but this is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya [see EAGLE])

  <F>
  FACE anta; SWEET-FACED raina (smiling, gracious). NOTE: A homophone means "nettled, enlaced". -ANA, VT44:35
  FADE sinta- (Þ) (pa.t. sintanë is given, though it seems perfectly regular), fir- (die), fifíru- ("slowly fade away", frequentative form of fir-; the participal form fifírula is attested); FADING quellë (In the Calendar of Imladris, quellë was a precisely defined period of 54 days in late autumn. Also called lasselanta; see AUTUMN.)  -THIN, MC:222/223, LotR:1141
  FAËRY Inwilis, Inwinórë (another gloss, "England", was struck out) -LT1:256
  FAINT néca (vague, dim to see) -MC:222/223
  FAIR vanima (beautiful, proper, right), vanë, melima, linda (the latter = fair/beautiful of sound, VT45:27); FAIR FOLK Vanimo (pl. Vanimor is given but seems perfectly regular; the word is said to apply to the "children of the Valar"). FAIR-MINDED faila (generous, just), NOT FAIR úvanima (ugly) FAIRWAY londë (road in sea). -BAN/VT39:14, LT1:272, MEL, SLIN, PM:352, VT39:14, VT45:28
  FAITHFUL voronda, vórima (steadfast) -UT:317, LT1:250
  FALL (vb) lanta- (pres. pl. lantar, pl. past lantaner and part. #lantala are attested); FALL (noun) lanta or #lantë. (The first of these words occurs in the compound lasselanta "leaf-fall, Autumn", while #lantë is isolated from Noldolantë "the Fall of the Noldor". From these examples it appears that a lanta is a physical fall, while a lantë is a moral fall. Perhaps the latter word can also be applied to a military defeat, as in "the fall of Gondolin".) THE FALLEN (= Númenor) Atalantë  -DAT/DANT/MC:222, Nam, SD:246, LT1:254, Silm:102/414, TALÁT
  FALLOW  marya (fawn, pale), malwa (pale) -MAD, SMAL
  FAMILIAR moina (dear) -MOY
  FAMILY nossë (clan, "house"), nórë, -nor (land, country, dwelling-place, nation, native land) -NÔ, LT1:272
  FANE yána (holy place, sanctuary) -YAN
  FANG carca (tooth, tusk) -Silm:429, LT2:344  
  FAR haira, eccaira, avahaira; FAR AWAY (adj) vahaia (or (a)vaháya, VT45:21), FAR AWAY, FAR OFF (adv.) háya; FAR AND WIDE palan (or "wide, over a wide space, to a distance", VT45:21), FAR-SEER palantir, "FAR-WANDERER" (the name of a ship) Palarran  -KHAYA, SD:247, Silm:435, TIR, UT:460
  FAREWELL namárië -Nam
  FARMER nandor (perhaps obsolete in LotR-style Quenya, clashing with the name of the Nandor, a tribe of Elves) -LT1:261
  FASTEN #tac- (listed as tacë, 3rd pers. sg. aorist), pa.t. tancë. -TAK
  FAT (adj.) tiuca (thick), lárëa (rich); GROW FAT tiuya- (swell). FAT (noun) lar (also used = riches), larma (the latter possibly "pig-fat"; the first part of the gloss is not certainly legible in Tolkien's manuscript. Another gloss of larma is "flesh".) -TIW, VT45:26
  FATE umbar (umbart-) (doom; the form amarto in LT2:348 is no doubt obsolete, but ambar from the same source may be a valid word also in LotR-style Quenya - see DOOM), marto (fortune, lot); manar, mandë (doom, final end, fortune [usually = final bliss]); FATED marta (which adjective seems to be the noun "fate" in an almost illegible source; see VT45:33). -MBARAT/LotR:1157, MANAD
  FATHER atar (pl. atari in Etym, though the pl. form #atári occurs as part of the compound Atanatári). Dative ataren is attested (VT43:36-37). The final version of the Lord's Prayer (VT43:12, 13) has #Átar with a long initial vowel (Átaremma "our father"); this #Átar may incorporate the vocative particle a (*a Atar "o Father" > #Átar). FATHER OF ALL Ilúvatar (God) -Silm:428, 229/ATA/LT1:255, VT44:16, Silm:404/UT:446, VT43:37
  FATHOM rangwë -RAK
  FAWN marya (fallow, pale) -MAD
  FAY OF THE COUNTRY nandin (dryad), FAY OF THE MEADS Nermi (pl. Nermir is attested) (field-spirit) -LT1:261, 262
  FËANOR Fëanáro (Spirit of Fire) -Silm:397/435, MR:217
  FEAR (noun) caurë; FEAR (vb) #ruc- (the 1st person aorist rucin is glossed "I feel fear or horror", constructed with "from" of the object feared, e.g. *rucin Orcollon "I fear Orcs") -LT1:257, WJ:415
  FEAST meren (merend-), merendë (festival); FESTIVE merya -MBER
  FEATHER quessë -KWES, LotR:1157
  FEBRUARY Nénimë (Amillion in LT1:249 is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya.) -LotR:1144
  FEEL FEAR OR HORROR #ruc- (cited in source as rucin, 1st pers. aorist), constructed with "from" of the object feared. -WJ:415
  FELL (adj) aica (sharp, terrible, dire). -PM:347
  FELL (noun) helma (skin) -SKEL
  FEMALE (noun) ní, FEMALE (adj.) inya, inimeitë (pl. probably *inimeisi; cf. HANDED, LEAPING, WINDY) -INI
  FENCED FIELD peler, FENCING OR DEFENSIVE HEIGHTS Pelóri -PEL(ES), WJ:403
  FESTIVAL asar (Vanyarin athar) (fixed time), meren (merend-), merendë (feast); FESTIVE merya -WJ:399, MBER
  FETCH tulta- (send for, summon) -TUL
  FEY marta (fated) -MBARAT
  FIELD-SPIRIT Nermi (pl. Nermir is attested) (fay of the meads) -LT1:262
  FIERY uruitë, úruva (The stem from which these words are derived was struck out in Etym. However, several words that must be derived from this stem occur in LotR, indicating that Tolkien restored it. LT1:248 also gives sára "fiery", but this word is probably obsoleted by sára "bitter" in Etym.) -UR
  FIGHT mahta- (wield a weapon) -MAK
  FILL quat- (fut #quantuva is attested in enquantuva, "will refill") -WJ:392, Nam; cf. KWAT
  FINAL tyelima, métima (ultimate, last); FINAL END mande, manar (fortune, bliss, fate), telda (last) -MC:222 cf. 215, MANAD, WJ:411
  FINARFIN Arafinwë -MR:230
  FIND #hir- (only fut hiruva is attested), #tuv- (only perf #utúvië is attested [with pronominal endings: utúvienyes "I have found it"]). It is difficult to say what distintion in meaning there may be between these words (if any at all); the verb #tuv- is evidently the same as tuvu- in GL:71, there glossed "receive". -Nam/RGEO:67, LotR:1008 
  FINE tereva (acute, piercing) -TER
  FINE RAIN rossë (dew, spray) -ROS cf. Letters:282
  FINGER leper (pl. leperi given). In an earlier source, the Etymologies, Tolkien gave the Quenya word for "finger" as lepsë (possibly with stem lepsi-, as indicated by the deleted ancestral form lepti, see VT45:27). FINGERED #lepta (isolated from raccalepta "clawfingered") PICK (UP, OUT) WITH THE FINGERS lepta- -VT44:16/VT45:27, LEP, SD:68, 72
  FINGOLFIN Nolofinwë -PM:344 (In the source,, Nolofinwë is spelt with initial ñ, that is, ng. Initial ng had become n in Third Age Quenya, and I follow the spelling 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 númen.) 
  FINGON Findecáno -PM:345
  FINISH (vb) tele- (intransitive) (end) (so in WJ:411 - LT1:267 gives telu-) telya- (transitive) (wind up, conclude). Cf. also telma "conclusion, anything used to finish off a work or affair", "often applied to the last item in a structure, such as a coping-stone, or a topmost pinnacle." FINISH (noun) telu -WJ:411, LT1:267
  FINROD Findaráto -Silm:428/PM:346
  FIRE úr (the stem from which this word is derived was struck out in Etym. However, several words that must be derived from this stem occur in LotR, indicating that Tolkien restored it. But a more usual word for "fire" is apparently nár, nárë, which appear [with the masculine ending -o] in the following names:) SPIRIT OF FIRE Fëanáro (Fëanor), FELL FIRE Aicanáro (Sharp Flame, Aegnor) (so in Silm:435; MR:323 has Aicanár). LT1:265 has sá "fire", poetic form sai, also sairin "fiery"; cf. also Sáya "the fire-fay" in GL:66. LT:271 has the following "fire"-words: FIRE uru, FIERY uruvoitë, ON FIRE urwa, LIKE FIRE urúva. Cf. also FIREWOOD turu (but the word was also used of wood in general). BOWL OF FIRE tanyasalpë (evindently #tanya "fire" + #salpë "bowl") -UR, Silm:397, MR:217, LT1:265, 270, 271, 292
  FIRM tulca (strong, immovable, steadfast; Note: there is a homophone verb meaning "fix, set up, establish"), tulunca (steady), sanda (true, abiding), tanca (fixed, sure) -TULUK, LT1:270, STAN, TAK
  FIRST minya (cf. Minyar "Firsts", the first clan among the Elves), inga, *yesta; FIRSTBORN (= the Elves) Minnónar. (*Yesta is emended from the actual reading esta; see BEGINNING. For FIRSTBORN, Etym has Estanessi, which would similarly become *Yestanessi, but this word is propably obsoleted by the later [TLT] form Minnónar. Writers should use the latter word.) FIRST-BEGOTTEN Minyon (a personal name. The element yon, translated "begotten", may be a reduced form of yondo "son". Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, Minyon may be the adjective minya "first" turned into a masculine name by adding the masculine ending -on. In that case, the literal meaning is simply *"First One". But it is possible that on is actually derived from the stem ONO "beget", and that "First-begotten" really is the literal meaning.) -MIN/Silm:434/WJ:420, ING, ESE, WJ:403
  FISH lingwë (perhaps the general word, as opposed to hala), SMALL FISH hala, "FISH-WATCHER" (i.e., kingsfisher, a bird) halatir (halatirn-) or halatirno -LIW, SKAL2, TIR
  FIST quárë (often used to mean "hand"). (In compounds -quar: Telperinquar = Sindarin Celebrimbor, "Silver-Fist, Hand of Silver". The first version of the stem KWAR yielded quár pl. quari.) -KWAR, Silm:429/387
  FIT mára (useful, good); TO (MAKE) FIT camta- (sic; the cluster mt seems unusual for Quenya, and while the source does not explicitly say that this word is Quenya, it is difficult to understand what other language could be intended) (suit, accomosate, adapt) -MAG, VT44:14
  FIVE lempë -LEP/GL:53
  FIX panya- (set), tulca- (establish, set up. Note: there is a homophone adjective meaning "firm, steadfast, strong, immoveable"); FIXED tanca (sure, firm); BE FIXED mar- (abide, be settled). FIXED TIME asar (-th-, Vanyarin athar) (festival), FIXED IDEA see IDEA -PAN, LT1:270 cf. TULUK, TAK, UT:317, WJ:399
  FLAG ambal (shaped stone) -MBAL
  FLAME nár, nárë, velca; SHARP-FLAME Aicanáro (so in Silm:435; MR:323 has Aicanár), (Aegnor, Fell Fire), RED FLAME rúnya; HEART OF FLAME Naira (a name of the Sun), FLAME-COLOURED culina, culda (golden-red) -NAR1, LT1:260, Silm:437, MR:198, KUL
  FLAT lára -DAL 
  FLEECE uë -LT1:249
  FLASHING OR [?STARRY] LIGHT élë -VT45:12
  FLESH hrávë, larma (the latter also = "[?pig-]fat"; the first part of the gloss is not certainly legible), sarco; FLESHY sarqua -MR:349, VT45:26, LT2:347
  FLINTHEARTED sincahonda -LotR:1015 cf. SD:68, 72
?FLINTSTONE #sinca (isolated from sincahonda "flinthearted") -LotR:1015 cf. SD:68, 72
  FLOAT lutu- (LT1:273 has wili- "sail, float, fly", but see FLY.) -LT1:249
  FLOOD (tide), celumë (stream, flow, flowing), ulundë, lúto; FLOODING (adj) úlëa (flowing, pouring) -ULU, KEL/MC:223, LT1:249
  FLOOR talan (#talam-, as in pl. talami) (ground); PAVED FLOOR paca (court) -TAL, GL:63
  FLOUR porë (meal) -POR
  FLOURISH (noun) rincë (quick shake) -RIK
  FLOW (vb) sir-, lutta-, lutu-; FLOW, FLOWING (noun) celumë (stream, flood); FLOWING (adj) úlëa (flooding, pouring), sírima (liquid). -SIR, LT1:249, KEL/MC:223, LT1:265
  FLOWER (large and single) lótë (often -lot in compounds). (The word lótë is usually applied to a large, single flower. From *ambalotsë "uprising-flower" [q.v.] #lotsë can be isolated; this may be the more general word for "flower".) FLOWER OF THE WEST (a floral design) Númellóte. Cf. also indil, "lily, or other large single flower".  PUT FORTH LEAVES OR FLOWERS *lohta- (emended from the actual reading lokta because Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) (sprout) -LOT(H), LT1:259, WJ:318, UT:227, 458, WJ:399, LT:258
  FLUTE simpa, simpina (pipe); FLUTER timpinen -LT1:266, 268
  FLUTTERING TO AND FRO wilwa -MC:223
  FLY #wil- (cited in source as wilin "I fly", 1st pers. aorist), pa.t. willë (cf. wili- "sail, float, fly" in LT1:273). FLY TO (i.e. "escape to") #ruc- (+ allative, e.g. *rucin i orontinnar "I fly to the mountains"; the verb ruc- otherwise means "fear", constructed with "from" of the object feared); FLY OR STREAM IN THE WIND hlapu- (part. hlápula is attested), FLYING rimpa (rushing); SEND FLYING horta- -WIL, VT44:7, MC:223, RIP, KHOR
  FOAM (vb) falasta- (part. falastala is attested); FOAM (noun) fallë, winga (spray), wingë (wingi-) (crest [of wave], spindrift). -MC:222/223, PHAL, WIG, LT1:273
  FOG hísë (Þ) (hísi-) (mist. Note: a homophone means "dusk"), hiswë, hui (murk, dark, night) -KHIS, LT1:253
  FOIL (plant) asëa -LotR:899
  FOLIAGE olassië (collection of leaves) -Letters:282
  FOLK hos -LT2:340
  FOLLOW hilya- FOLLOWER neuro; FOLLOWERS (an Elvish name of Men) Hildor, Hildi (unattested sg #Hildo; dative pl hildin is attested; cf also Hildinyar "my heirs" in Elendil's Declaration). -KHIL/Silm:116/122/403, FS/WJ:387, LotR:1003, 1004
  FOOD (cooked) apsa -AP
  FOOT tál (tal-) (These forms probably obsolete tala pl talwi in LT2:347.) FOOTPRINT runya (slot) -TAL, RUN      
  FOR an (Nam: an sí...Varda...máryat...ortanë, "for now...Varda...has uplifted her hands". Note: an is also glossed "to, till".) English "for" meaning "for the benefit of" will often be rendered by the dative ending -n (pl -in); e.g. nin "for me". As for "for" meaning "on behalf of", see BEHALF. -Nam
  FORBID #váquet- (refuse, say no) (1st pers. sg aorist and past váquetin, váquenten are given in source), avaquet- (refuse) (pa.t. is no doubt *avaquentë; cf. quet- under SAY) -WJ:370, KWET
  FORCE (= pressure to do something against one's will or conscience) sahtië (Þ) (pressure) -VT43:22
#FORD tarna (This gloss is isolated from Taruktarna "Oxford", q.v. Tolkien glossed tarna as "crossing, passage") -LT1:347
 FOREIGN ettelëa ("ettelen" in the printed Etymologies is probably a misreading; see VT45:12); FOREIGN PARTS ettelë (outer lands) (but the Quenya word is singular) -ET, VT45:12 
 FORESIGHT *apacen (lit. *"after-sight", a vision of something that will come after the present. In MR:216, apacenyë is translated "foresight"; yet the context and the form of the word itself clearly indicates that it is actually the pl. form of an adjective #apacenya "of foresight". The noun "foresight" is almost certainly *apacen; cf. tercen "insight".) -MR:216
  FOREST taurë ([great] wood) (pl. tauri is attested), tauno, málos (the two latter may not be valid words in Tolkien's later Quenya) -TAWAR/Silm:438/MC:222 cf 215/VT39:7, LT2:342, LT1:267
  FORGE - LT1:250 gives tamin, but this verb is probably obsoleted by tamin "I tap" in Etym.
  FORGIVE #avatyar- (imperative avatyara and the pl. aorist avatyarir are attested). The matter that is forgiven is the direct object, whereas the person that is forgiven appears in the ablative case: avatyara mello lucassemmar, "forgive us [lit. from us] our debts". This verb #avatyar- occurs in certain versions of Tolkien's Quenya rendering of the Lord's Prayer; in the latest version he introduced the verb apsene- "remit, release, forgive" instead, with a slightly different syntax: the matter forgiven is still the direct object, but the person forgiven now appears in the dative case. The exact etymology of apsene- is somewhat obscure; the prefix ap- is apparently derived from a root AB- in a meaning which Tolkien according to other sources abandoned (see VT43:18-19); also, it is unclear whether the final -e of apsene- is just the connecting vowel of the aorist (before endings we would rather expect *apseni-) or an integral part of the verbal stem, which would make this an "E-stem" verb otherwise hardly attested. The verb apsene- is once attested with the object ending -t "them" attached: apsenet "[as we] forgive them". The alternative verb #avatyar- is for many reasons less problematic and may be preferred by writers. -VT43:8, 9, 18-20
  FORLORN úna (deprived of, destitute) -VT39:14
  FORM car- (make, q.v.) -WJ:391
  FORMER, THE yara (that); FORMER DAYS yárë; FORMER TIMES yalúmë; FORMERLY yá (ago), BELONGING TO OR DESCENDING FROM FORMER TIMES yára (ancient, old) -YA
  FORSAKE hehta- (pa.t. hehtanë is given but seems perfectly regular) (put aside, leave out, exclude, abandon); FORSAKEN ELVES see EGLATH. ONE LOST OR FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecilë f.) (waif, outcast, outlaw) -WJ:365
  FORT arta (fortress) (Note: arta also means "across, athwart") -GARAT (see 3AR)
  FORTH et- (prefix) (out) -ET
  FORTRESS arta (fort) (Note: arta also means "across, athwart") -GARAT (see 3AR)
  FORTUNE (good) alma (weal, wealth); mandë, manar (final end, doom, fate); heren (governance, what is in store for one or what one has in store); marto (fate, lot); FORTUNATE herenya (wealthy, blessed, rich) -GALA, MAN/MANAD, KHER, LT2:348
  FOUL saura (Þ) (evil-smelling, putrid); in compounds sauri- as in FOULBELLIED sauricumba. The latter form may indicate that this adjective also appears in an alternative form *saurë, sauri-. -THUS, SD:68, 72
  FOUNDATION talma (base, root) -TAL
  FOUNTAIN ehtelë (issue of water, spring).The actual reading in LT1 and LT2 is ektelë, but Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya. The new form of the word is attested in Silm. LT also gives the form kektelë, that would likewise become *cehtelë.) -LT1:257, LT2:338
  FOUR canta, (prefix:) can- -KANÁT, VT45:18
  FOX rusco -PM:353
  FREE (adj.) léra, mirima (of a person, as opposed to:) latin, latina (open, cleared [of land]), lerina ("free" of things in the sense of "not guarded, reserved, made fast, or 'owned'", VT41:5), Cf. also lehta "free, released". FREE ELEMENT (a term for "vowel") #lehta tengwë (only pl. lehta tengwi is attested; we would rather expect *lehtë tengwi). (A word fairë "free" is mentioned in LT1:250, but may be obsolete: several other meanings are attributed to this word in later writings [see DEATH, PHANTOM, RADIANCE]. However, fairië "freedom" does not clash with later words.) FREE FROM EVIL aman (see BLESSED) -VT41:5, MIS, LAT, VT39:17, WJ:399
  FREE (verb) rúna- (see DELIVER); SET FREE lerya- (release, let go), sen- (let go, let loose) -VT43:23, VT41:5, 6, VT43:18
  FREEZE niquë- ("it is cold, it freezes"). LT1:254 gives hilcin "it freezes", but in LotR-style Quenya this will have to mean, if anything, "I freeze" (1st pers. aorist). -WJ:417, LT1:254
  FREQUENT rimba -RIM
  FRESH venya, wenya (yellow-green, green); FRESHNESS vén, wén (youth, greenness) -GWEN
  FRESHLET celussë (water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring) -UT:426
  FRIEND málo, meldo (pl meldor is attested). Apparently meldo is a masculine form, corresponding to feminine #meldë (cf. meldenya *"my friend" in the Elaine inscription, Tolkien here referring to Elaine Griffiths). Other words for "friend": nildo (m.), nildë (f.), sermo, seron (m.), sermë (f.), -ser (final element in compounds), -(n)dil (final element in compounds, e.g. Elendil, Anardil, Valandil - sometimes translated "lover" rather than "friend". When the first part of the compound ends in l, n, or r, the n of -ndil is left out). FRIENDLY nilda (lovely), FRIENDSHIP nilmë -MEL, WJ:412 cf. VT45:34, NIL, SER, Letters:386
  FROM: Independent Quenya prepositons for "from" include ho and va, var; however, English "from" will often be rendered using the ablative case, endings -llo, pl -llon or -llor, dual -lto, e.g. Eärello *"from the Sea". The preposition et "forth, out" may also express "out" and is combined with the ablative case to express "out from", "out of". -3O, VT43:20, 24, LotR:1003, VT44:35
  FROST nixë, ringwë (rime), FROST-PATTERNS niquis, niquessë (the latter by association with quessë "feather") -WJ:417, LT1:265
  FROZEN halcin -LT1:254
  FRUIT yávë (so in Etym, Silm:439, and VT43:31; LT1:273 has yáva, whereas yava appears in VT43:31). BEAR FRUIT yavin (which must mean *"I bear fruit", stem #yav-. Tolkien often employs the 1st person aorist when mentioning a verb in his wordlists.) -YAB, LT1:273
  FULL quanta (+ genitive to express "full of", as in quanta Eruanno "full of grace", VT43:28); FULL TO THE BRIM, WITH MOUTH FULL penquanta ("peñ), FULLY aqua (completely, altogether, wholly); FULL WRITING (= writing with separate symbols for vowels) quanta sarmë, FULL STOP (in Tengwar punctuation - probably the symbol :) pusta (stop), FULL SIGN #quanta tengwë (only pl. quantë tengwi is attested). In early Elvish analysis of Quenya, this was the term for a consonant + a vowel (this was analyzed as a kind of unitary phoneme rather than two phonemes; hence a stem like mata- "eat" was analyzed as two quantë tengwi: ma + ta). -KWAT/VT43:28, VT39:11, WJ:392, VT39:8, PUS
  FUNGUS hwan (hwand-, as in pl. hwandi) (sponge) -SWAD
     
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  GALADRIEL Altariel (Altariell-; gen. Altariello is attested. Altariel is the form used in Noldorin Quenya, Galadriel's own mother-tongue; the Telerin form is Alatáriel [UT:266]. According to PM:347, the true Quenya equivalent of the Telerin form would have been Ñaltariel, but this form was apparently not used.) -Silm:433, RGEO:66 
  GAME tyalië (sport, play) -TYAL/LT1:260
  GANDALF Olórin (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 fásë (gulf) -GL:36
  GARLAND ría (wreathe); MAIDEN CROWNED WITH A FESTIVAL GARLAND riellë -PM:347
  GASH cirissë (slash), hyatsë (cleft) -KIRIS, SYAD
  GATE ando; GREAT GATE andon (pl andondi). (LT1:264 has osto "the gates of the Sun" and Ostor "East", but in Tolkien's later Quenya osto means "town" or "fortress".) -AD, LotR:1157, LT1:264
  GATHER hosta- (collect, assemble); GATHERING (of three or more coming from different directions) yomenië (meeting) -MC:223, WJ:407    
  GENEROUS faila (fair-minded, just) -PM:352
  GENTLE milya (soft, weak) (Note: milya- is also a verb "long for"), moica (soft), GENTLE BREEZE vílë -VT45:34, GL:58, LT1:273
  GET net- (pa.t. nentë given) - QL:66
  GET LOW (of the Sun) númeta-, númenda- -LT1:263
  GERM erdë (seed. Note: a homophone means "person".) -ERÉD
  GESTURE-CODE hwermë -WJ:395, VT39:5
  GIANT (noun) norsa (Þ) (see also MONSTER), hanaco -NOROTH, VT45:21
  GIFT anna; LAND OF GIFT (a name of Númenor) Andor (haplology of *Annandor), DEAR GIFT (the meaning of Melian's name) Melyanna, GIFT OF GOD, see GRACE. -ANA, Silm:313, 434
  GIMILZÔR Telemnar -UT:223
  GIMLET teret (auger) -LT1:255
  GIRDLE #lesta (isolated from #Lestanórë; 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-. In one text, Tolkien apparently used ana as the imperative "give!", but the text was rewritten and this may have been an ephemeral form (VT44:13). GIVER antë (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 *antando). Another fem. word for "giver" is #ánië, isolated from massánië (see BREAD-GIVER). -ANA, VT44:13, PM:404
  GIVE BIRTH nosta- (but in later sources, nosta- is glossed "beget", q.v.) -LT1:272
  GIVEN (OR ADDED) NAME anessë (pl anessi is attested. This word encompasses both "after-names" and "mother-names".) -MR:217
  GLAMHOTH Sancossi (see GOBLIN) -LT2:341
  GLASS hyellë, hyelma (the latter perhaps = "a glass", whereas hyellë could be glass as a substance), LITTLE GLASS lipil. Cf. also vírin, "a magic glassy substance of great lucency used in fashioning the Moon" -KHYEL/VT45:23, LT1:258, LT2:339
  GLAURUNG see GLORUND
  GLEAM (WHITE) ilca- (part. ilcala is attested) -MC:223
  GLINT (vb) tinë (pres 3rd pers sg); GLINT (noun) tindë, 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 ñ, 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 númen.) -MBIRIL, RIL, PM:347
  GLOBE coron (#corn-, as in dat.sg. cornen) (ball); GLOBED corna (round) -KOR
  GLOOM ungwë, lumbë (shadow), huinë (darkness, shadow), lómë (night, twilight, darkness, dusk), yaru; GLOOMY morna (black, dark, sombre); CHILD OF GLOOM lómëar (probably not a valid word in LotR-style Quenya) -UÑG, LUM, VT41:8, GL:37, LT1:255, Silm:431
  GLORIOUS alcarinqua (radiant) (The shorter form alcarin is attested in VT44:10 and also as a title of king Atanatar II. Cf. also Alcarinquë, a name of Jupiter.) The form alcarë appears as an adjective "glorious" in VT44:10, but this was apparently an ephemeral form, and the Etymologies, alcarë is rather a longer form of the noun alcar "glory". -AKLA-R-, WJ:412, RGEO:73/LotR:1075/VT44:10, Silm:55
  GLORUND, GLORUNN Laurundo, Undolaurë (Tolkien later changed Glorund to Glaurung. Read *Laurungo, *Ungolaurë in Quenya?) -LT2:341
  GLORY alcar, alcarë (splendour, brilliance) In VT44:10, alcarë is an adjective "glorious" rather than a noun "glory", but this was apparently an ephemeral form. -AKLA-R-/RGEO:73/UT:317/WJ:369/Silm:427, VT43:37, VT44:34
  GNOME (only = wise one, Noldo) Noldo (spelt Ngoldo [Ñoldo] 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, VT39:16
  GO lelya- or lenna- (pa.t. lendë in both cases; the printed Etymologies gives "linna" instad of lenna-, but according to VT45:27 this is a misreading) (proceed, travel); vanya- (pa.t. vannë) (depart, disappear), GO ROUND pel- (revolve, return); GO ATHWART tara- (cross); GO AWAY auta- (leave, pass); pa.t. oantë, perf. oantië (in the physical sense "went away [to another place]", vánë ("the most frequently used past [tense]" - less "physical" than oantë, rather meaning to be lost or to disappear), also anwë (this pa.t. was "only found in archaic language"), perf. avánië (pl. avánier is attested); perf. vánië with no augment may occur in verse. CAUSE TO GO (in a desired direction) menta- (send), 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!) LET GO lerya- (release, set free), sen- (let loose, free) -WJ:363, LED/VT45:27, PEL, LT2:347, WAN,  Nam, WJ:364, VT41:5, WJ:366, VT41:5, VT43:18
  GOAT - she-goat: nyéni -LT1:262
  GOBLET súlo, fion -SUG (see SUK), LT1:253
  GOBLIN (Orc) urco (pl urqui) or orco (pl. orqui or orcor); THE GOBLINS Sancossi (sancë "hateful" + hossi "armies", said to be the Quenya equivalent of Sindarin Glamhoth) 
-ÓROK, LT2:202/MR:74/WJ:390, LT2:341
  GOD Eru ("The One, He that is Alone", "the One God", a proper name that can hardly be used as a common noun meaning "god" in general. The form Eru may obsolete Enu in LT2:343. Genitive Eruo, VT43:32; dative Erun, VT44:32). Other names/titles: Ilúvatar "Father of All", Ainatar *"Holy-Father". 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.) SON OF GOD (Jesus) Eruion, MOTHER OF GOD (Mary, in Tolkien's Quenya renderings of Catholic prayers) Eruamillë (also Eruontari, Eruontarië *"God-begetter") -Silm:15/396/431, Letters:387, VT44:16-17, 34, LT1:248 cf. AYAN and Silm:426, VT43:32, VT44:7, 16-17, 18 34
  GOLD (the metal) malta (so in LotR - Etym has malda [stem SMAL], but cf. the archaic form smalta mentioned under LAWAR); GOLD laurë (= "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 laurëa (pl laurië is attested; LT1:258 has laurina), GOLDEN-RED culda, culina (flame-coloured); (cf. Silm. Appendix: "cul- 'golden-red' in Culúrien") -LotR:1157/SMAL, Letters:308/RGEO:70/LAWAR, KUL, RGEO:70/Nam, Silm:429  
  GONDOLIN Ondolindë ("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) mára (fit, useful), GOOD (morally good) manë; GOODBYE mára mesta -MAG (see MA3), LT1:260, Arct
  GOODS armar (sg #arma if there is a sg) -3AR
  GOOSE ván, wán (pl. váni is given, but seems perfectly regular) -WA-N-
  GORE nasta (spearhead, point, triangle), nehtë (spearhead, narrow promontory, wedge. Note: a homophone means "honeycomb"), 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 Namárië] - though this clashes with cirya "ship". An early version of Namárië actually had Calacilyo, not Calaciryo; see An Introduction to Elvish p. 5) -KIL 
  GORTHAUR Sauron (Þ) -Silm:418 cf. THUS
  GOTHMOG Cosomot (prob. *Cosomoc-, cf the alternative form Cosomoco) -LT1:258    
  GOVERN #tur- (attested as turin "I...govern", 1st pers. aorist), pa.t. turnë (wield, control). LT1:273 has vard- "rule, govern", but this is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. -TUR
  GOVERNANCE heren (fortune) -KHER
  GOVERNOR cáno (chieftain, commander; see COMMANDER for details) -PM:345, 361-362
  GRACE #Eruanna (literally *"God-gift, gift of God"), attested in the genitive form Eruanno. Also #erulissë, literally "God-sweetness" (attested in the instrumental case: erulissenen), or simply lissë, literally "sweetness". -VT43:28, 29, VT44:18
  GRACIOUS raina (smiling, sweet-faced). NOTE: A homophone means "nettled, enlaced". -VT44:35
  GRADE #tyellë (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.) 
-ÑGYO(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 salquë, (stiff and dry:) sara (Þ) (bent) -SALAK, STAR
  GREAT velicë (possibly obsolete in LotR-style Quenya: In LT1:254 velicë 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 Alatairë. Tolkien's gloss of alta, alat- was actually illegible, and I give the root meaning of the stem ÁLAT. The meaning of the Quenya word cannot differ too widely from it, for Alatairë is said to correspond to "Noldorin" Belegoer [in LotR-style Sindarin Belegaer], The Great Sea.) -LT1:254, ÁLAT cf. BEL, cf. Silm:428
  GREAT BEAR see SICKLE OF THE VALAR.
  GREAT LONGING mavoinë -LT2:345
  GREAT NUMBER - in a very great number: úvëa (abundance) -UB
  GREAT QUANTITY úvë (abundance) -UB
  GREAT WOOD taurë (forest) -TAWAR
  GREED milmë; GREEDY milca -MIL-IK
  GREEN laica (so in Letters:282; earlier sources have laiqua, whereas laica meant something wholly different ["keen, piercing"] in earlier material: LT2:337), wenya (yellow-green, fresh), ezel, ezella (adopted from Valarin; only used in Vanyarin Quenya)."Green" is expressed as a mere prefix lai- (representing the root underlying the adjective laica) in: GREEN-ELVES Laiquendi; cf. also VERDIGRIS = lairus. GREENNESS wén, laiquassë (freshness, youth). -LÁYAK/LT1:267, WJ:399, GWEN, WJ:385, LT1:267
  GREY #mista (isolated from lassemista "leaf-grey"), also hiswa, but the most usual word for "grey" may be sindë (Þ) or sinda (Þ). (WJ has sindë "pale or silvery grey", wheras sinda is given in Silm:438; cf. also sindanoriello "from a grey land", Sindacollo "Grey-cloak" and Sindar "Grey-Elves, *Grey Ones".)GREY-ELVES Sindar (Þ) (sg. Sinda), less commonly Sindeldi (sg Sindel); GREY-CLOAK Sindacollo, Singollo (Þ) (so in Silm:421; MR:217 has Sindicollo, presupposing sindë, sindi- as the word for "grey"); GREY-ELVEN sindarinwa (adj), Sindarin (= Grey-Elven language) (Þ) -LotR:505 cf. Letters:224, KHIS, LotR:1171, Silm:438, THIN/WJ:384, Nam, Silm:419, WJ:384, LotR:1157, 1161
  GRIEF nyérë (sorrow). Pl. probably *nyérer not *nyéri; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste" pl. tyáver. The noun nyérë points to a verbal stem *nyer- "grieve". -GL:60/LT1:261
  GROT (small) rotto (tunnel) -PM:365
  GROUND talan (#talam-, as in pl. talami) (floor) -TALAM
  GROW ol- (not clearly identified as a Quenya word in the source; it may be a primitive root); GROW FAT tiuya- -VT45:13, TIW 
  GROWL (vb) yarra- (snarl), (of dogs:) núru- (grumble); GROWL (noun) nur (complaint) 
-MC:223, LT1:263
  GRUMBLE (vb) nurru- (murmur), núru- (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 yáwë (cleft, ravine), fásë (gap) -YAG, GL:36
  GULL maiwë -MIW         
  GYRATE hwinya- (eddy, swirl) -SWIN

  <H>         
  HABIT haimë -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 (greeting) aiya (so in LotR; LT1:248 has áyë); variant spelling aia. -LotR:747, 950 cf. Letters:385, VT43:28
  HAIR loxë; TANGLED HAIR fassë; LOCK OF HAIR findë (defined as "a tress or plait of hair" in PM:345; LT2:341 has findl, an impossible form in LotR-style Quenya), HEAD OF HAIR, A PERSON'S HAIR AS A WHOLE findessë -LOKH, PHAS, SPIN, PM:345
  HALF-ELVEN (noun, pl) Pereldar (Sindarin Peredhil, LotR:1071). Singular #Perelda. -Letters:386
  HALL #mardë (isolated from oromardi "lofty halls, high-halls"; the singular may also be reconstructed as #mar with stem mard-, which would make this the same word as the word for "home" or "dwelling", q.v.); ROCKHEWN HALL hróta (artificial cave, rockhewn hall), VAULTED HALL rondo -Nam/RGEO:66, PM:365, VT39:9
  HALLOW #airita- (only pa.t. airitánë is attested) -VT32:7
  HALVE perya- (devide in middle) (After perya, a word perina is mentioned - it is undefined but seems to be a corresponding adjective or past participle *"halved, divided in middle".) -PER  
  HAMMER (vb) namba-; HAMMER (noun) namba -NDAM
  HAMS hacca (buttocks) -GL:47
  HAND má (pl. allative mannar "into...hands" is attested; the long á evidently becomes short a before a consonant cluster), quárë (the latter is properly "fist", but was often used for "hand" - see FIST); HOLLOW OF HAND cambë; HAVING HANDS mavoitë; HANDY, HANDED maitë (skilled) (pl. maisi. When maitë is the final element of names, it is translated "handed" instead of "handy", e.g. Angamaitë "Iron-handed", morimaitë "blackhanded") -MA3/LT2:339/VT39:10, FS, KWAR/Silm:429, KAB, LotR:1085 cf. Letters:425, LotR:1015/SD:68, 72, UT:460
  HANDLE mahta- (fight, manage, wield, wield a weapon) -TUR, MAK, VT39:10, MA3 
  HANG linga- (dangle) -LING
  HAPPEN - LT2:348 gives mart- "it happens" (impersonal). Perhaps read *marta- in LotR-style Quenya, though that would clash with the adjective marta "fey, fated".
  HAPPY valin (LT1:272 also gives valimo, but adjectives ending in -o do not occur in LotR-style Quenya), HAPPINESS vald- (so in LT1:272; nom. sg. must be either *val or *valdë) (blessedness) It is highly questionable whether these words from early material quoted in LT1:272 are conceptually "valid" in LotR-style Quenya: Originally, they were meant to be related to the noun Valar, the Gods being termed the "Happy Ones", but Tolkien later re-interpreted Valar as meaning the "Powers". For "happiness" it may be better to use the noun alassë "joy", and for "happy" or "joyful, joyous" many writers have used the neologism *alassëa.
  HARBOUR hópa (haven, bay - obsoleting cópa, cópas in LT1:257); HARBOURAGE hopassë -KHOP
  HARD sarda, nauca (the latter also meaning ill-shapen, twisted, *small - see SMALL.) -VT39:17, WJ:413
  HARE lapattë -GL:52
  HARP (vb) nanda-; HARP (noun) nandë; LITTLE HARP nandellë; HARPING (noun, not adjectival participle) nandelë; HARPER nandaro, HARP-PLAYER tyalangan. (In Etym, all but the last of these words are spelt with initial ñ, 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 númen.) HARP-PLAYING salmë. HARPING ON ONE TUNE vorongandelë ("vorogandele" in the published Etymologies is a misreading; see VT45:7) (continuous repetition) -NGAN, TYAL; cf. LotR:1157, LT1:265, LIN1
  HARSH naraca (rending, violent) (possibly "of sounds", but Tolkien's extra comment is partially illegible) -NÁRAK, VT45:37
  HARVEST yávië (autumn) - evidently obsoleting yávan in LT1:273. In the Calendar of Imladris, yávië was a precisely defined period of 52 days, but the word was also used without any exact definition. Note: yávië 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 ormë (wrath, violence, rushing); HASTY orna, tyelca (agile) -GOR, KHOR, PM:353
  HAT táta -GL:71
  HATE (vb) #tev- (aorist tevë); LT1:258 has mokir "I hate", read *mocin in LotR-style Quenya? HATEFUL sancë; HATRED tevië -LT1:268, LT2:341
  HAVE - see POSSESS. Cf also NO LONGER TO BE HAD vanwa (gone, dead, departed, lost, past, vanished) HAVE AN IMPULSE horya- (be compelled to do something, set vigorously out to do) -WJ:366, VT45:22
  HAVEN  hópa (harbour, bay) londë (as in Alqualondë "Haven of the Swans", UT:417 - but elsewhere londë 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" [ormë] is known.) -PHI
  HE – in some early sources there appear a pronominal ending -ro, as in antaváro he will give (so in LR:63, perhaps *antuváro in LotR-style Quenya). There is also the ending -s, that covers the entire 3rd person sg: "he, she, it". It is uncertain what the independent word for "he, even he" might be; some would guess that it could be *eryë. By the same theory, Tolkien may have abandoned -ro in favour of the ending *-ryë, connecting with the ending -rya "his, her"; if so, *-ryë (and *eryë) would also cover both "he" and "she" (whereas -ro as a distinct ending for "he" might have corresponded to *-rë "she"; compare the references to ancient inflections in -so and -se found in the Etymologies, entry S-). As an independent word for "he" LR:63 apparently has e, a word that appears in Sindarin as well (SD:129). Does it also cover "she, it"? Cf. HIM, HIS.
  HEAD cár (cas-), nóla (round head, knoll); HEAD OF HAIR findessë (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
  HEAP cumbë (mound) -KUB
  HEAR #hlar- (only fut hlaruva is attested) -MC:222
  HEARING (adj) lasta (listening) -LAS2
  HEART hón (physical heart), órë (inner mind - concerning this word, see SPIRIT) (Note: a homophone means "rising"), indo (mind, mood), enda (lit. "centre", not referring to the physical organ, but the fëa [soul] or sáma [mind] itself), elwen; -HEARTED #honda (isolated from sincahonda "flinthearted").  EYES OF HEARTSEASE (a name of the pansy) Helinyetillë HEART OF FLAME Naira (a name of the Sun), -KHÔ-N-, LotR:1157, ID, VT39:32, LT1:255, LotR:1015 cf. SD:68, 72, LT1:262, MR:198
  HEAT úrë (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) yulmë (Note: 
a homophone means "drinking, carousal") -LotR:1157 cf. UR; YUL
  HEAVE #amorta- (only part. amortala is attested), HEAVE (of large and heavy things:) rúma- (shift, move) (part. rúmala is attested) -MC:222 cf. 215, MC:223, 222
  HEAVENS, THE menel (a sg word, "heaven", as opposed to its English translation), ilwë (sky). The form #Eruman that turns up in one version of the Quenya Lord's Prayer (in the locative: Erumandë) appears to include the divine name Eru and must refer to "heaven" as God's abode (but Tolkien simply used menel for "heaven" in earlier versions of the Lord's Prayer). IN HEAVEN (adj., more or less = *HEAVENLY) meneldëa -Silm:434/MC:222 cf. 215, LT1:255, VT43:12, 16 vs. 10, VT43:10, VT44:16
  HEAVY lunga -LUG
  HEDGE (jagged hedge of spikes) caraxë -KARAK
  HEED tirin ("I watch", *"I heed", 1st pers. aorist), pa.t. tirnë; fut. tiruva "shall heed" is attested; also cim-. -MC:222 cf. 214, TIR, GL:39
  HEIGHT #tárië (only allative tárienna "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, harna, harpa -KAS, VT45:21
  HELPER: A word for "helper" is apparently embedded in the compound "East-helper", Rómestámo, Róme(n)star (so in PM:384, 391; probably ?Rómenstar must always become Rómestar, but Tolkien cited the form as Róme(n)star to indicate the connection with rómen "east"). It may be that as an independent word, the -stámo "helper" element would manifest as ?sámo (Þ).
  HEM ríma (edge, border), HEM OF ROBE lappa  -RÎ, GL:52
  HER 1. (object form of she) - the ending -s (also covering "it, *him". Utúvienyes [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". Probably there is no distinction of gender here either; see HIM. 2. HER (genitive, = of her) -rya (possessive suffix, e.g. aratarya "her sublimity" [WJ:369], máryat "her hands" [Nam].) This ending apparently covers the entire 3rd pers sg and may also translate as "his" or - it may be assumed - *"its".) -WJ:369
  HERO callo (noble man). LT1:268 also has mordo "warrior, hero", but in Tolkien's later Quenya mordo means "obscurity, shadow, stain, smear, dimness". -KAL
  HEW *pelehta- (emended 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 nurtalë "hiding" in Silm:120), #lom- (LT1:255 gives lomir "I hide"; this would become *lomin in LotR-style Quenya); moru- -LT1:261
  HIDING nurtalë -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) -ÚLUG
  HIGH tára (lofty, tall), oro- (in compounds: oromardi "high-halls"). The element #Ar- in Arfanyarassë (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered)". VERY HIGH antara (with Antaro as a corresponding personal name). HIGH HEAVEN tarmenel (locative tarmeneldë also attested), HIGH PLACE #tarmen (pl. locative tarmenissen attested) -WJ:417, Nam/RGEO:66, WJ:416, VT45:5, VT44:34
  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: Manwë, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna, Aulë, Mandos, Nienna, and Oromë. Aratar is also rendered "The Supreme, Exalted Ones". -Silm 32/381, WJ:402  
  HIGH SPEECH (= Quenya) Tarquesta -TÂ   
  HILL ambo (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) -VT45:5, MC:222, LT1:269, TUN, LT1:256, AM
  HIM - probably the ending -s (also covering "it, *her". Utúvienyes [LotR:1008] is translated "I have found it", but it could probably mean "I have found him/her" as well.) Some theorize that so may function as a short independent pronoun "he, him" and that case endings may be attached to this word, e.g. dative *son "for him". However, material recently published may suggest that in later variants of Quenya, se covers both "he/she" and "him/her" (as object), and that this is the form to which case endings are attached (e.g. dative *sen "for him/her").
  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 3rd pers sg and also means "her" and *"its".) -WJ:369
  HISTORY nyárë (tale, saga), quenta (narrative, story), quentalë (account, narration), lúmequentalë, lúmequenta (chronological account), HISTORICAL lúmequentalëa. (In VT39:16, quentalë is defined as "narration" or "History", used as an abstract referring to universal History, but also used with particular reference; hence "the history of the Noldor" can be quentalë Noldoron or quentalë Noldorinwa, but this refers to the real events rather than an account of them: that part of universal History which concerned the Noldor.) HISTORICAL ACCOUNT quentasta (any particular arrangement, by some author, of a series of reconds or evidences into a given historical account - not History as such, which is quentalë) -NAR2, KWET/VT39:16, LU
  HIVE nierwes -LT1:262
  HOARD foa (treasure) -LT2:340
  HOBBIT: The genitive plural periandion is attested in the Elaine inscription, suggesting that the Quenya word for "hobbit" is #perian (as in Sindarin) with stem #periand-.
  HOLE latta (pit - Note: a homophone means "strap"), assa (perforation, opening, mouth) -DAT, GAS
  HOLIDAY meryalë -MBER 
  HOLLOW (noun) unquë, HOLLOW (adj) unqua, ronta, rotwa; HOLLOW OUT unca-  -UNUK, LotR:1157, LT2:347
  HOLLOWBOLD Návarot (Nogrod, Novrod) -WJ:389
  HOLLY ercassë (probably obsoleting piosenna in LT2:347) -ERÉK
  HOLY airë. The word aina also occurs in a number of sources (e.g. VT44:7, 17-18); according to VT43:32 this word is "obsolete except in Ainur", but it may occur in sources post-dating this statement. Yet another word for "holy", aista, is seemingly only attested in a translation of "holy spirit" which Tolkien later replaced with a form including airë instead (see below). HOLY ONE ainu (m.), aini (f.) (angelic spirit, god); HOLY PLACE yána (fane, sanctuary); HOLY SPIRIT airefëa (other version: fairë aista; both versions are attested with the dative ending -n attached) -Nam, AYAN/WJ:399,, YAN, VT43:36, 37
 HOME már (also used of the "home" or native land of peoples). VT45:33 gives mar "home, dwelling" with stem mard-. 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-). In a far earlier source, reproduced in LT1:262, the word for "honey" was nektë. This would however become nehtë in LotR-style Quenya, since Tolkien later decided that kt becomes ht in Quenya, and in its new form nehtë the word turns up in the Etymologies with the slightly modified meaning "honeycomb". (Note: a homophone means "spear-head, gore, wedge, narrow promontory".) HONEY-BEE nier, nion -LIS, LT1:262, VT45:38, GL:60
  HOOD telmë (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 rassë ("especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains". Cf. Rasmund "horned bull" in Letters:423 [this may not be pure Quenya] and Arfanyaras, Arfanyarassë "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 róma is used for "horn", though this is glossed "trumpet-sound" in Etym), HORN OF ULMO hyalma (shell, conch), tildë (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, TARÁK, LT2:337,347, Silm:438
  HORROR - rucin is glossed "I feel fear or horror" (1st 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), olombo (but since Tolkien subsequently changed the relevant stem from LOB to LOP, we should perhaps read *olompo), mairo; HORSEMAN roquen (rider, knight) -ROK/Letters:282, 382, VT45:28, GL:56, WJ:372/UT:282
  HOST rimbë (crowd), horma (horde) -RIM/Letters:178, 382, LT2:341
  HOSTILE cotya -KOT
  HOT saiwa; BLAZING HOT úrin (Úrin is also a name of the Sun) -LT1:248/265, LT1:271
  HOUND huan (hún-); HOUND OF CHASE ronyo -KHUG (see KHUGAN), ROY
  HOUR lúmë (so translated in LotR and in VT43:34; in Etym the gloss is simply "time". Allative lúmenna is attested. Note: lúmë also means "darkness".) THIS HOUR #sillumë (ablative sillumello attested) -LU, LotR:94, WJ:367, VT44:35
  HOUSE coa (prob. the most neutral word), opelë (walled house), car (card-) (building), nossë (clan, family, kin, people) (LT2:336 gives indo "house" and os(t) "house and cottage"; these words are probably obsolete - in Tolkien's later 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 [fëa] dwelling inside the body [hroa]) -WJ:369/MR:250, PEL(ES), KAR, NÔ/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
  HUNGRY maita -VT39:11
  HUNT (noun), HUNTING raimë (which is evidently a misreading for *roimë in Tolkien's manuscript. 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 venno (the published Etymologies gives "verno", but according to VT45:7, this is a misreading of Tolkien's original manuscript); HUSBAND AND WIFE veru (married pair) -BES
  HUSH quildë (rest, quiet) -GL:23
 	
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  I (1st pers. sg) inyë (independent pronoun, used for emphasis: *"even I"), -n or -nyë (endings used on verbs, e.g. ávan, ványë "I [-n/-nyë] will not", maruvan "I [-n] will abide"). The long form -nye must be used if another pronominal ending is to be added after it: utúvienyes, "I [-nye-] have found it [-s]". In the "Arctic" sentence, ni is translated "I"; this may be a shorter (non-emphatic?) form of inyë. The dative pronoun nin "for me" is transparently ni + the dative ending -n; other case endings may also be added to ni. -LR:61, WJ:371, LotR:1008/1003, Arct
  ICE helcë; ICE-COLD helca (the final -a is missing in the printed Etymologies, entry KHEL, but VT45:21 confirms that this is a typo; the full form also occurs in LT1:254 and Silm) -LT1:254/Silm:433/KHEL
  IDEA intya (guess, suppostition), inca (cited with a final hyphen in the source, but it does not seem to be a verbal stem); *selma (Þ) ("a fixed idea, will". In WJ:319, the word is given as Þelma, but Þ (th) would become s in the Noldorin Quenya. Cf. Þindë, sindë in WJ:384; see GREY) -INK, VT45:18, WJ:319
  IDOL cordon -LT1:257
  IDRIL Itaril, Itarillë, Itarildë (obsoleting Irildë in LT2) -PM:346/Silm:436, LT2:343
  IF mai; IF ANYBODY aiquen (whoever) -PE14:59, WJ:372
  ILL laiwa (sick, sickly) -SLIW
  ILL-SHAPEN nauca (hard, twisted, *small - see SMALL.) -WJ:413
  ILLUMINATE calya- -KAL
  IMAGINATION nausë (Þ) -NOWO
  IMMORTAL ilfirin -PHIR       
  IMMOVEABLE tulca (firm, strong, steadfast; Note: there is a homophone meaning "fix, set up, establish") -TULUK cf. LT1:270
  IMPLEMENT (prob. noun) yaima -GL:37
  IMPEDED tapta; nominal pl. taptar was used = tapta tengwi "impeded elements", a term for consonants (sg. #tapta tengwë; in the pl. we would rather expect *taptë tengwi with the pl. form of the adjective). -VT39:17
  IMPOSSIBLE TO RECOUNT únyárima ("sc. because all the facts are not known, or the tale is too long"), IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY/PUT INTO WORDS úquétima (unpronounceable, unspeakable), A THING IMPOSSIBLE TO BE OR TO BE DONE únat -WJ:370, VT39:26
  IMPULSE felmë (emotion), hórë; BODY-IMPULSE hroafelmë (impulses provided by the body, e.g. physical fear, hunger, thirst, sexual desire), SPIRIT-IMPULSE fëafelmë (impulses originating with the spirit, e.g. love, pity, anger, hate); IMPULSIVE hórëa (the gloss "impulsion" in the printed Etymologies is a misreading, VT45:22); HAVE AN IMPULSE horya- (be compelled to do something, set vigorously out to do) -KHOR, VT41:19 cf. 13, VT45:22
  IN mi (within), imi; IN THE mí (for *mi i?) (The version of Nam in LotR has mi where the version in RGEO has the more correct form mí.) IN or AT: sé, se (the form with a long vowel may be preferred since se is apparently also a 3rd person pronoun) This preposition sé is apparently related to the locative ending -ssë (plural -ssen, dual -tsë) that would be the most typical way of expressing "in, on, at" in Quenya. IN, INWARDS, see separate entry INWARDS. -MI, VT43:30/VT44:18, 34, Nam, RGEO:66, VT43:30, 34
  IN- (prefix denying presence or possession of thing or quality) ú- (not-, un-) -VT39:14; according to LR:396 s.v. UGU, this prefix usually has a "bad sense", cf. vanimor "fair folk" vs. úvanimor "monsters".
  INADEQUATE penya (pl. penyë is attested) (lacking). INADEQUATE SIGN #penya tengwe (only pl. penyë tengwi is attested). This term, also translated "lacking signs", was used in early Elvish analysis of Quenya as the term for vowels with no preceding consonant, held (in many cases incorrectly) to have lost such a consonant. -VT39:6, 8
  IN A VERY GREAT NUMBER úvëa (abundant) -UB
  INCARNATE (noun) #mirroanwë (only pl. mirroanwi "incarnates" is attested) -MR:350
  INCITEMENT siulë -SIW
  INCLINE (noun) talta -TALÁT
  INCLINED penda (sloping down) -PEN
  INDEED (interjection) é. Can be prefixed to sentences, as in e man antaváro? "What will he give indeed?" (LR:63); this e would seem to be a short variant of é. -VT45:11, LR:63
  INDICATE tana- (show) (Note: tana also means "that"), tëa- (note: not to be confused with the noun tëa "straight line, road"); INDICATION tengwë (sign, token, writing - pl tengwi is attested) INDICATED (adj) tengë. -MR:385, VT39:6, WJ:394, 395 cf. TEK, VT39:6
  INDUCE sahta- (Þ) (referring primarily to inducing someone to do something against their will or conscience). -VT43:22
  INDUCEMENT TO DO WRONG #úsahtië (temptation). Attested in the allative case (úsahtienna). -VT43:23
  INLANDS Mittalmar (the central region of Númenor) -UT:165, 454
  INNER MIND órë (heart) (Note: a homophone means "rising") -LotR:1157
  INSERT mitta- -VT43:30
  INSIDE, TO THE mir, minna (into) -MI
  INSIGHT tercen; OF INSIGHT, lit *INSIGHTFUL #tercenya (only pl tercenyë is attested) -MR:230
  INTELLECT handelë; INTELLIGENCE handassë; INTELLIGENT handa (understanding) -KHAN
  INTERCHANGE OF THOUGHT (= telepathy) ósanwë (communication of thought). -VT39:26
  INTERIOR (adj) mitya -MI
  INTO mir, minna (to the inside), variant mina. -MI, VT43:30
  INVENT auta- (devise, originate) (Note: a homophone means "pass"); INVENTION aulë 
-GAWA 
  INWARDS - a word imbë said to be the adverb "in(wards)" appears in VT45:18 (not clearly identified as a Quenya word), but in LotR, imbë is the preposition "between".
  INZILADÛN Palantir -UT:223, Silm:324
  IRELAND Íverind- (As indicated by the hyphen, some ending is needed - a Quenya word cannot end in nd. The normal form must be *Íverin, becoming Íverind(e)- before an ending, e.g. genitive *Íverindo, locative *Íverindessë [cf. Lórien, locative Lóriendessë]. The name is also given as Íwerin or Iverindor, "an island off the west coast of Tol Eressëa" - Eressëa later becoming England in this early version of Tolkien's mythology.) -LT2:344, cf 285
  IRON anga, IRON or STEEL erë, eren; OF IRON angaina; IRON-HANDED Angamaitë; IRON-GAOL Angamando (Angband) -ANGÂ/LotR:1157, LT1:252, LT1:249, 268, Letters:425 cf. LotR:1085, MR:350
  ÍRITH Irissë -PM:345
  IS see BE
  ISLAND, ISLE lóna, tol (pl tollë according to Etym, tolli in LT1:85. According to Silm:438, tol is used of islands "rising with sheer sides from the sea or from a river". LT1:269 defines a tol as "any rise standing alone in water, plain of green, etc.") THE LONELY ISLE Tol Eressëa (tol "isle" often being omitted) -LONO, TOL, RGEO:70
  ISOLATED ROUND HILL tolmen (boss of shield) -LT1:269
  ISOLATED TOWER mindo -MINI
  ISOLATED TREE ornë -ÓR-NI- (see ORO)
  ISSUE uswë (escape) -LT1:251
  ISSUE OF WATER ehtelë (fountain, spring) -KEL
  ISTHMUS yanwë (bridge, joining) -YAT
  IT #sa (ósa in VT43:29 seems to mean "with it"), -s (pronominal ending, e.g. utúvienyes, "I have found [utúvienye-] it [-s]") It is uncertain what the independent word "it, even it" might be; see HE. *ITS -rya (possessive suffix, only attested with the meanings "his" and "her" [q.v.], but related forms suggest that this ending covers the entire 3rd pers. sg.) In the Etymologies, Tolkien defined ta as "that, it", but later, he turned ta into a plural pronoun instead ("they/them", with reference to non-persons). -VT43:29, LotR:1008, WJ:369, TA
  
  <J>
   JACKET vacco (cloak) -GL:21
   JAIL see GAOL      
   JANUARY Narvinyë (In LT1:252, the word for January is avestalis, and the latter part of the month is called Erintion, but these words are hardly conceptually valid in LotR-style Quenya.) -LotR:1144
   JAW anca (translated "jaws" in the appendices to LotR and Silm, but anca is sg and is glossed "jaw" in Etym. GL:37 has cá [spelt "kâ"]) -LotR:1157, Silm:427, ÁNAK
  JERK (vb) rihta- (give quick twist or move) -RIK(H)
  JESUS Yésus -VT43:31
  JEWEL mírë (pl. míri is attested); SHINING JEWEL miril (treasure, precious thing) WITH ADORNMENT OF RED JEWELS carnimírië (a pl form? Sg *carnimírëa? Letters:224 has carne- instead of carni-.) JEWEL OF YAVANNA yavannamírë (a flagrant evergreen tree with scarlet fruit, brought to Númenor by the Eldar) -MIR/Silm:434, Nam, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224, UT:472
  JOINING (noun) yanwë (isthmus, bridge) -YAT
  JOY alassë (merriment) -GALÁS
  JUDGE (vb) #nam- (1st person aorist namin "I judge" in VT41:13), JUDGE (noun) Námo (Ordainer - the name of a Vala. In MR:150, though, Námo is glossed JUDGEMENT [of what is]). Note: a homophone námo means "person". -Silm:411
  JUDGEMENT námië – defined as "a (single) judgement" or "a (single) desire". A JUDGEMENT náma (desire). JUDGEMENT (of what is) Námo (but this is elsewhere glossed "Ordainer", and the ending -o normally does indicate something animate/masculine rather than something abstract). -VT41:13, MR:150
  JUICE sáva, pirya (syrup) -SAB, PIS
  JULY Cermië -LotR:1144
  JUNE Nárië -LotR:1144
  JUPITER Alcarinquë (Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55. According to LT1:260, Morwen (there translated "daughter of the dark") is a name of Jupiter, but this may not be a valid word in Tolkien's later Quenya. LT1:265 also mentions Silindo as a name of this planet.
  JUST faila (fair-minded, generous) -PM:352
  
  <K>
  KEEN laica (the printed Etymologies has a final -e instead of -a, but this is a misreading; see VT45:25) (sharp, acute, *piercing); KEENNESS (of perception) laicë (acuteness). The conceptual validity of these words is questionable; see PIERCING. -LAIK
  KEEPING (safe) mando (custody) -MR:350
  KHAZAD-DÛM Casarrondo (Dwarrowvault) -WJ:389
  KILL, see SLAY
  KIN nossë (house, people) -LT1:250, 272/LT2:338 
  KIND nostalë (species) -LT1:272
  KINDLE tinta- (cause to sparkle), narta-; in older [TLT] materiel also turu-, tunda- (Note: there is a homophone meaning "tall") -Silm:438, VT45:37, LT1:270
  KING aran (pl arani is attested) In Etym, the Quenya word for "king, chieftain" is haran pl. harni, but evidence from LotR, WJ and UT shows that Tolkien changed it to aran pl arani. Cf. asëa aranion "kingsfoil", i arani Eldaron "the Kings of the Eldar", Arandor "kingsland", aranya *"my king", arandil "king's friend, royalist", and arandur "king's servant, minister".) LT1:273 has vardar "king", but this is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. KINGLY BULL Aramund (this may not be pure Quenya) -3AR, LotR:899, WJ:369, UT:165, 193, 313, Letters:386, 423
  KINGDOM #aranië (attested with the suffix -lya "thy" added). Earlier versions of the text in question had other forms: #turinasta, #turindië (both also occurring with a long ú). -VT43:12, 15
  KINGSFISHER halatirno, halatir (halatirn-) (lit. "fishwatcher") -SKAL2, TIR
  KNIGHT roquen (rider, horseman) -UT:282 cf. WJ:372
  KNOB tolos (lump) -LT1:269
  KNOCK (keep on knocking) tamba- -TAM  
  KNOLL nóla -NDOL
  KNOT narda, nútë (bond). Pl. probably *núter not *núti; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste", pl tyáver. -SNAR, NU
  KNOW ista (pa.t. sintë); KNOW ABOUT hanya- (understand, be skilled in dealing with), KNOWLEDGE handë (understanding), ista, istya, issë (lore), nólë (long study, lore, wisdom). (In Etym this word is spelt with initial ñ, that is, ng. Initial ng had become n in Third Age Quenya, and I follow the system of LotR and transcribe it accordingly. Nólë is so spelt also in Silm:432. But if this word is written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not númen.) HAVING KNOWLEDGE istima (wise, learned) -IS/LT2:339; KHAN, ÑGOL, Silm:432
  K-SERIES calmatéma -LotR:1154 
  
  <L>
  LABIALS parmatéma (p-series); LABIALIZED SERIES quessetéma -LotR:1154
  LABERNUM Lindeloktë (singing cluster). (So in LT1:258, but Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya. Read *Lindelohtë?) -LT1:258
  LABOUR (vb) móta- (toil), moia- (be afflicted) -MÔ, VT43:31
  LACKING penya (pl. penyë is attested) (inadequate). LACKING SIGN #penya tengwe (only pl. penyë tengwi is attested). This term, also translated "indadequate signs", was used in early Elvish analysis of Quenya as the term for vowels with no preceding consonant, held (in many cases incorrectly) to have lost such a consonant. -VT39:6, 8
  LADY heri -KHER, LT1:272 (GL:45 has quimellë). A quite different word which Tolkien also translated "Lady" is massánië, literally "breadgiver", the title of the "Lady" or the highest among the elven-women of any people, she having the right to keep or give away lembas bread. See PM:404.
  LAKE ailin (pool) (LT2:339 also has ailo); ringë (cold lake, pool [in mountains]) (Note: ringë is also an adjective meaning "cold") -AY/LT2:339, RINGI
  LAMENT (vb) naina- (also longer nainaina-), nyéna-; LAMENT (noun) nainië, nairë -NAY/VT45:37, LT1:262, RGEO:66
  LAMP calma (light) -KAL/LotR:1157
  LAND nórë (dwelling-place, race, country, region where certain people live, nation, native land, family), nór (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). Another ending occurring in the names of lands is -sta (see VT43:15).  Cf. also lóna (remote land difficult to reach, island. Note: a homophone means "dark"); WESTLAND Númenor, Númenórë (Westernesse); LAND OF GIFT (a name of Númenor) Andor (< *Annandor, see GIFT), LAND OF THE WEST Númendor -NDOR/NÔ/Silm:430/ WJ:413, LONO, Silm:414, 313, 430
  LANGUAGE quetil (tongue, talk), lambë (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".) Notice that lambë is also used for "dialect" (VT39:15). LANGUAGE (as an abstract, the ability to speak or the "art" of making speech) tengwestië. LANGUAGE with especial reference to phonology: Lambelë. LANGUAGE OF THE VALAR Lambë Valarinwa (lit. *"Valarin language"), LANGUAGE OF THE ELDAR Eldarissa (the latter may not be a valid word in LotR-style Quenya) -KWET/VT45:25, WJ:394, 397, VT39:15, LT2:339
  LARCH finë -SPIN
  LARGE alta, alat- (great in size) (Tolkien's definition of this word was actually illegible, but see GREAT), úvëa (very large, abundant, in a very great number), úra (note: a homophone means "nasty, evil"; some would say these later glosses render the word úra = "large" obsolete.) -ÁLAT, UB, UR
  LARK lirulin (prob. *lirulind-, cf. lindo "singing bird") -MR:238/252, LIN2
  LAST (adj.) tella (hindmost), telda (final), métima (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 vórë (adj.?), also vórëa (continuous, enduring); LASTING QUALITY voronwië (endurance) -VT45:7, BORÓN
  LATE telwa (last) -LT1:267
  LAUGH lala- -PM:359 cf. 343. (Note: a homophone means "deny".) Past tense perhaps *landë, given the derivation stated (whereas lala "deny" might have the past tense *lalanë or *lallë). 
  LAW sanyë (Þ) (rule), axan (rule, commandment, as proceeding primarily from Eru; pl. axani is attested); LAW-ABIDING sanya (Þ) (normal, regular) -STAN, WJ:399, VT39:30, 23
  LAWN palis (sward) -LT1:264 
  LAY lirilla (song) -LT1:258
  LEAD tulya- (+ allative: lead into) Another form of similar meaning, mittanya-, was possibly abandoned by Tolkien. -VT43:22
  LEAD (the metal) canu, LEADEN canuva -LT1:268
  LEAF lassë (pl. lassi is attested); HAVING MANY LEAVES lillassëa (pl lillassië is attested); COLLECTION OF LEAVES olassië (foliage); PUT FORTH LEAVES OR FLOWERS *lohta- (altered 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, VT39:9, LT1:254, MC:222, 223, Letters:282, LT1:258, KAT, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224
  LEAGUE lár (basic meaning "pause" - in marches a brief halt was made for each league). A lár was defined as five thousand rangar; see YARD. A ranga was approximately 38 inches, so a lár was "5277 yards, two feet and four inches [ca. 4826 meters], supposing the equivalence to be exact" - close enough to our league of 5280 yards to justify this translation. -UT:285
  LEANING talta (sloping, tilted) -TALÁT
  LEAP halta-; LEAPING haloitë (pl. haloisi is attested) -LT1:254
  LEARNED istima (wise, having knowledge), nóla (wise).  (In Etym, the latter word is spelt with initial ñ, 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 nólë in Silm:432. But if this word is written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not númen.) LEARNED MAN istyar (scholar) -IS, ÑGOL
  LEAVE (vb) auta- (go away, pass), pa.t. oantë, oantië (in the physical sense "went away [to another place]") or vánë ("the most frequently used past [tense]" - less "physical" than oantë, meaning "disappeared" rather than "went away"), perf. avánië (pl avánier is attested); perf. vánië with no augment may occur in verse. For "leave", Etym also has lesta, pa.t. lendë; 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. hehtanë is given but seems perfectly regular) (put aside, exclude, abandon, forsake) -WJ:366, ELED
  LEAVE (noun) - with leave of: lenémë (+ genitive)
  LEFT hyarya; LEFT-HANDED hyarmaitë
  LEG telco (pl. telqui) (stem) -TELÉK
  LEGENDARIUM OF THE FATHERS OF MEN Atanatárion (lit. simply "of the Fathers of Men") -MR:373
  LEGOLAS Laiqualassë -LT1:267
  LEMBAS coimas (life-bread) (prob. coimast[a]-, cf. masta "bread") (life-bread) -Silm:406/429
  LENGTHENED taina (extended, stretched, elongated); LENGTHENING tailë (extension) -TAY cf. VT39:7
  LESS mis (adverb); suffix -LESS -lóra (= "without"; this -lóra is a suffix used to derive adjectives; Tolkien gave the example ómalóra "voiceless"). The earlier "Qenya" suffix -viltë, -valta of similar meaning may not be valid in LotR-style Quenya. -PE14:80, VT45:28, GL:23
  LESSEN píca (part. #pícala is attested) (dwindle) -MC:223, 222
  LET (see ALLOW); LET GO lerya (release, set free), LET GO or LET LOOSE sen- (to free). -VT41:5, 6; VT43:18 
  LETTER tengwa (pl. tengwar is attested; this word was used primarily of the Fëanorian letters. However, the term "Tengwar of Rúmil" occurring in LotR:1151 seems to indicate that the word tengwa can indeed be used of a letter of any kind, not only the Fëanorian 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 Rúmilian letters after the invention of the Fëanorian Tengwar (but cf. the term "Tengwar of Rúmil" mentioned above). -TEK, WJ:396, LotR:1151
  LIBERTY (see FREE); – DEPRIVE OF LIBERTY avalerya- (bind, make fast, restrain) -VT41:5, 6
  LICK salpa- (sup, sip), lavin ("I lick", 1st pers. aorist; past tense #lávë is attested in the word undulávë "downlicked" in Nam); LICK (frequentatively) lapsa- -SÁLAP cf. LT1:266, DAB/Nam 
  LIE (noun, = untruth) furu -LT2:340, 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 cuilë (being alive; obsoleting coi, coirë in LT1:257; the latter means "stirring, spring" in Tolkien's later 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. ortanë is attested) -Nam/ORO/RGEO:67
  LIGHT cálë, 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) silmë (†silver), MOONLIGHT isilmë; FLASHING OR [?STARRY] LIGHT élë; 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, VT45:12 PHAY, WJ:361/Silm:61, RGEO:70/Nam
  LIKE (prep) ve (as) -Nam/RGEO:66, 67
  LILY indil ("or other large single flower"), nénu (= yellow water lily) -WJ:399, LT1:248
  LINE OF SURF falassë (beach, shore) -Silm:431 
  LINDI Lindi (What the Nandorin Elves called themselves; the word could be adopted unchanged into Exilic Quenya. Sg #Lindë?) -WJ:385 
  LINDIL Sindarin form of LINDI, q.v. -WJ:385
  LINDON Lindon, Lindónë -WJ:385
  LINGER lenda- -VT45:27
  LINE tië (path, direction, course, way, road), tëa (straight line, road) (note: not to be confused with the verb tëa- "indicate"), téma (row, series) (pl. témar is attested in LotR:1153) -TE3/RGEO:67, TEÑ
  LIP pé (so according to a late source; glossed "mouth" in the Etymologies, stem PEG), dual peu "the two lips, the mouth-opening". Early "Qenya" had cíla for "lip". -VT39:9, GN:24
  LION rá (pl rávi) (so in Etym; LT1:260 has rau, but pl rávi is the same.) (Note: rá is also a preposition meaning "on behalf of".) SHE-LION ravennë -RAW, LT1:260
  LIQUID (adj) sírima (flowing) -LT1:265
  LISTEN lasta-; LISTENING (adj) lasta (hearing) -LAS2
  LITTLE titta (tiny). LITTLE ELF Teler, Telellë (adj. telerëa, telella) -TIT, LT1:267
  LO! ela (look! see!) (directing sight to an actually visible object) -WJ:362 cf. 360 
  LOAF cornë -LT1:257
  LOATHE yelta- (abhor); LOATHING (noun) yelmë ("yelma" in the published Etymologies is a misreading, VT45:11); LOATHSOME yelwa -DYEL, VT45:11
  LOCK OF HAIR findë (tress), fassë (shaggy lock, tangled hair) -SPIN
  LOFTY tára (tall, high); compare antara "very lofty". (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. -TÂ/Silm:437/LT1:264, VT45:36
  LOGDRAWING turuhalmë -LT1:270
  LONELY eressëa; LONELY ISLE Tol Eressëa (tol "isle" often being omitted) -ERE, RGEO:70
  LONG (adj) anda, sóra (trailing); LONG AND THIN lenwa (straight, narrow); LONG (adverb, of time:) andavë; LONG YEAR (144 solar years, an Elvish "century") yén (pl. yéni is attested) LONG-MARK andatehta -ÁNAD, LT2:344, 341, LotR:989, Nam/LotR:1141/YEN, TEK     
  LONG FOR milya- (Note: milya is also an adjective "soft, gentle, weak"); GREAT LONGING mavoinë -MIL-IK, LT2:345
  LONG-LASTING voronwa (enduring) -BORÓN
  LOOK AT yéta-; 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, in Tolkien's early "Qenya" also windelë -LAN, LT1:254
  LOOSE lenca- (in the printed Etymologies, the n of this word was misread as u, VT45:27), lehta- (slacken). LET LOOSE sen- (let go, free) -LEK, VT43:18
  LORD heru, hér, as final part of compounds: #her, e.g. Ostoher *"City-Lord". The form Héru with a long é occurs in VT43:28, 29 (where i Héru "the Lord" refers to God). LORDSHIP hérë; LORD OF TREES Aldaron (a name of Oromë) -LT1:272, Silm:432, Letters:282, VT44:12, LotR:1122, Silm:32, 378, VT41:9
  LORE nólë (long study, wisdom, knowledge), †ingolë (deep lore, magic [in WJ:382, the gloss is simply "lore", and the word is not stated to be poetic]), issë; SECRET LORE nolwë (wisdom). (These forms obsolete nólemë in LT1:263. In some sources, nólë and nolwë are spelt with initial ñ, 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 nólë in Silm:432. But if these words are written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not númen.) 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.) -ÑGOL, 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 hecilë f.) (waif, outcast, outlaw) -WAN, Nam, WJ:366, 365
  LOT marto (fortune, fate) -LT2:348
  LOUD SOUND róma (trumpet-sound) (Note: róma also means "shoulder".) MUSICAL SOUND lin (lind-) (melody) -ROM, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308        
  LOVE (vb, love as friend) mel-; LOVE (noun) melmë (LT1:262 has meles, melessë); LOVELY melwa, LOVING nilda (friendly), méla (affectionate), BELOVED melda (dear, sweet), LOVER meldo (pl meldor is attested), melindo (m.), melissë (f.); LOVEABLE melima (fair), írima (desirable) -MEL, LT1:262, WJ:412, NIL, VT39:11, ID   
  LOW, LOWLYING tumna (deep, profound, dark or hidden); LOWER AIR vilma (earlier [MET] wilma), Aiwenor (lit. "Birdland") -TUB cf. LT1:271, WIL, AIWÊ 
  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 LotR-style Quenya. Read *martë or something similar?) -LT1:272, LT2:348
  LUMP tolos (knob) -LT1:269
  LUST mailë; LUSTFUL mailëa -MIL-IK
  LYING HEAVY lumna (heavy, burdensome, oppressive, ominous) (Note: lumna is also a verb meaning "lie heavy"); LYING IN BED caila (bedridden, ?sickness) -DUB, KAY/VT45:19
  LYRE salma -LT1:265

  <M>
  MAEDHROS Nelyafinwë (meaning "Finwë third", not equivalent in sense to Sindarin Maedhros. The short form of the name was Nelyo. His mother-name [q.v.], "recorded....though never used in narrative", was Maitimo "well-shaped one". He also had a nickname Russandol "copper-top") -PM:352, 353
  MAGIC †ingolë (deep lore). In LT1:269, curu is glossed "magic, wizardry", but in Etym the gloss is simply "skill". MAGIC (adj.) sairina -ÑGOL, GL:72
  MAGLOR Canafinwë, short form Cáno (not equivalent in sense to his Sindarin name, which is the cognate of his "mother-name" Macalaurë, "recorded...though never used in narrative"). -PM:352, 353
  MAID, MAIDEN wendë, vendë (the latter is probably the later [MET] form), also short form wen pl. wendi (girl). Tolkien also used the word wendë (variants vénë, véndë, read evidently vendë) to translate "virgin" in his Quenya version of a Catholic prayer, where the reference is to the Virgin Mary. In compounds -wen, e.g. Nerwen "Man-maiden" (prob. *-wend-)  MAIDENHOOD wendelë -WEN, LT1:271/273/Silm:439, VT44:10, 18
  *MAIDENLY (or *VIRGINAL) *vénëa (only attested in elided form vénë') -VT44:10
  MAKE #car- (1st pers. aorist carin "I make, build". The same verb is translated "form" in WJ:391: i carir quettar, "those who form words". According to Etym the past tense is carnë, though FS and SD:246 have cárë; the latter may be seen as a "Qenya" form. Past participle #carna *"made" is attested in Vincarna *"newly-made" in MR:305; the longer participial form carina occurs in VT43:15, read probably *cárina with a long vowel to go with such late participial forms like rácina "broken"). MAKING carmë (glossed "art" in UT:396 and is also translated "production", but cf. the following:) NAME-MAKING Essecarmë (an Eldarin seremony in which the father of a child announces its name.) MAKE FAST avalerya- (bind, restrain, deprive of liberty). TO (MAKE) FIT camta- (sic; the cluster mt seems unusual for Quenya, and while the source does not explicitly say that this word is Quenya, it is difficult to understand what other language could be intended) (suit, accomosate, adapt). MAKE FOR IT mína- (desire to go in some direction, to wish to go to a place, have some end in view). -KAR, WJ:391, MR:214, VT41:5, 6, VT44:14, VT39:11
  MALE (noun) hanu (man, male of Men/Elves or animals); MALE (adj) hanwa -3AN, VT45:16, INI
  MAN nér (ner-; pl. neri given) (#ner as the final element in compounds, as in vëaner and úner, see below), vëo (-wë as final element in compounds); hanu (male); (ADULT) MAN vëaner; MANLY vëa (adult, vigorous); MANHOOD vië (vigour); MAN-SPEARHEAD (a wedge-formation of soldiers) nernehta, NOMAN úner (All these words can apparently be used of adult males of any sentient race. For "Men" in the sence "humans", see MORTALS, FOLLOWERS.) -DER, WEG, VT45:16, UT:282, UT:211
  MANAGE mahta- (fight, handle, manage, wield, wield a weapon) -TUR, MAK/VT39:10
  MANTLE (vb.) fanta- (to cloak, veil) -VT43:22
  MANY limbë, also prefix lin- (by assimilation it becomes lil- before l, as in lillassëa "having many leaves"; before m, r, s it would similarly become *lim-, *lir-, *lis-). Instead of using the early "Qenya" form limbë for "many", it may be safer to use the later form rimba, by Tolkien glossed "numerous" (q.v. for reference). -LT2:342, LI, Plotz letter
  MAR #hasta- (verb stem isolated from the past participle hastaina, see below); MARRED hastaina (Arda Marred = Arda Hastaina); UNMARRED alahasta -MR:255, 254 
  MARBLE alast- (sic - some ending is obviously required, e.g. *alasta) -GL:39
  MARCH Súlimë -LotR:1144/Silm:437 (not capitalized in the latter source)
  MARINER ciryamo, (professional mariner:) ëarendur, Eärendilyon ("son of Eärendil [used of any mariner]", prob. *Eärendilyond-) -UT:8, Letters:386, LT1:250
  MARK (in writing) tehta- (sign, diacritic) (In LotR:1155, this word is applied to the supralinear vowel-signs of Fëanorian writing, and pl tehtar is attested.) sarat (pl. sarati is attested), originally [MET] a word used of "a 'letter' or any individual significant mark", but after the invention of the Tengwar primarily used of the Rúmilian letters. TINY MARK tixë (dot, point) -TEK/VT39:17, TIK, WJ:396
  MARS Carnil -Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55
  MARY (Mother of Jesus) María -VT43:28, VT44:18 ("Maria" in VT44:12 lacks the accent, but this is probably a mere slip)
  MAST ferna (beechnuts), tyulma -PHER, TYUL/SD:419
  MASTER (noun) heru (lord), #tur (cf. Fëanturi "Masters of Spirits", a name of the Valar Mandos and Irmo). MASTER OF DOOM Turambar, MASTER OF DESIRE Irmo (lit. "Desirer", the name of a Vala); MASTERY túrë (victory); MASTERED #turúna (only the form turún`, with the final *-a elided, is attested. Silm:269 has turun instead of turún` - the accent and he elision mark seem to have been omitted.) -KHER, TUR/UT:438, Silm:261/269/423, 405, UT:138
  MATRIMONY vesta -BES
  MATTER (basic matter:) erma; PHYSICAL MATTER orma, hroa (the latter is also used = "body") -MR:338, 218, 216 
  MAVWIN Mavoinë -LT2:345
  MAY (the month) Lótessë (In LT1:252/254, the word for May is Kalainis, but this is hardly a valid word in Tolkien's later Quenya.) -LotR:1144
  MAY IT BE SO, see AMEN
  ME The ending -n, attested only as subject, may be employed: *Utúvielyen, "thou (-lye-) hast found me (-n)". It has been theorized that ni is the independent word for "me", but actually it seems to be a non-emphatic word for "I" (so in Arct; contrast the emphatic inyë; see "I"). Case endings may be added to ni, e.g. dative nin "for me" (Nam).
  MEAD míruvórë (nectar, drink of the Valar) -NAM, RGEO:66, 69, LT1:261
  MEADOW - LT1:267 (GL:39) gives lairë, but this word already has two different meanings in Tolkien's later Quenya ("summer" and "poem"), so it is somewhat doubtful whether this word from Tolkien's earliest linguistic constructions remained conceptually valid at later stages.
  MEAL porë (flour) -POR
  MEAN faica (contemptible) -SPAY
  MEASURE #lesta (only attested in instrumental form lestanen "in measure". Note: #lesta also means "girdle".) -FS
  MEAT apsa (cooked food) -AP
  MEETING (junction of the direction of two persons or groups:) omentië, (of three or more coming from different directions:) yomenië -WJ:367, 407, LotR:94
  MELIAN Melyanna (dear gift) -Silm:434
  MELODY lin (lind-) (musical sound), MELODIOUS lindelëa -LT1:258, cf. LotR:488 and Letters:308       
  MEN see MAN or MORTALS, FOLLOWERS
  MENTAL MESSAGE sanwë-menta (thought-sending) -VT41:5
  MERCURY (the planet, not the metal) Elemmírë -Basic Quenya:24
  MERCHILD oar (child of the sea), MERMAID oaris (oarits-), oarwen (prob. *oarwend-) (so in LT1:263 - read ëaris, ëarwen in Tolkien's later Quenya, since the word for "sea" was altered to ëar?)
  MERCY - HAVE MERCY órava- (+ locative to denote the object of the mercy; compare English "have mercy on [someone]; Tolkien expressed "have mercy on us" as órava messë) Another form, ócama or ocama, was possibly abandoned by Tolkien. -VT44:12-14
  MERRIMENT alassë (joy) -GALÁS
  MESSAGE menta (sending) -VT41:5
  MESH rembë -LotR:1149
  METAL tinco, rauta -TINKÔ/LotR:1157, RAUTÂ
  MEWING miulë (whining)
  MICKLEBURG Túrosto (Belegost) -WJ:389
  MIDDLE (noun) endë (core, centre); MIDDLE (prob. adj) enya, endya (In Noldorin Quenya, enya would be the natural form - endya looks like Vanyarin Quenya. Cf. the name of the language itself in the two dialects, Quenya vs. Quendya.) MIDDLE-DAY #enderë (only pl enderi is attested; for sg #enderë cf. yestarë, mettarë, the first and the last day of the year. The "middle-days" were three days inserted between the months of yávië and quellë in the Calendar of Imladris.) -ÉNED, cf. WJ:361, LotR:1142
  MIDDLE-EARTH Endórë, Endor (defined as "centre of the world" under ÉNED; allative form Endorenna is attested in LotR. Other names are also glossed "Middle-earth": Ambarenya, Endamar; see also EAST) -LotR:1003, ÉNED, MBAR
  MIGHTY taura, poldórëa (a title of Tulkas); MIGHTY-RISING Melkórë (> Melkor) (uprising of Power), THE MIGHTY Melko (an alternative form of Melkor, derived from an unattested adjective *melka, *melca "mighty", with connotations of violence.) -TUR, LT1:264/GL:64, MR:350
  MILCH COW yaxë. (An alternative form yaxi, glossed "cow", looks like a plural in LotR-style Quenya, unless it connects with the few other feminine forms in -i, like tári "queen".) -GL:36
  MIND sáma (pl. sámar is given), indo (heart, mood), (inner mind:) órë (heart) (Note: a homophone means "rising"); MIND-MOOD inwisti -VT39:23, MR:216, LotR:1157, MR:229
  MINISTER arandur (king's servant, steward) -Letters:386, UT:313
  MISERY angayassë -LT1:249
  MIST hísië (Þ), hísë (Þ) (hísi-) (fog. Note: a homophone means "dusk". For "mist" writers may prefer hísië, the form occurring in LotR.) -Nam/RGEO:67, KHIS
  MOAT see WALL AND MOAT
  MOCKING yaiwë (scorn) -YAY
  MOIST nítë (dewy) -NEI
  MOLE noldarë, nolpa -GL:30
  MONSTER ulundo, úvanimo (creature of Melkor. In LT1:236, Úvanimor are said to be "monsters, giants, and ogres". See also ORC.) -ÚLUG, BAN/LT1:272/VT45:7
  MONTH #asta (only pl astar is attested) -LotR:1142
  MOOD indo (heart, mind) -ID
  MOON Isil (-th-), Rána (so in Silm and UT; Etym has Rana with a short a), CRESCENT MOON cú (bow), MOONLIGHT isilmë -I/THIL/LotR:1148, Silm:436/UT:242, RAN, LT1:271, MC:222, 223
  MORE lil -PE14:80
  MORGOTH Moringotto (the oldest [MET] form was Moriñgotho) (Black Foe) -MR:194
  MORN (early) artuilë, tuilë (the latter is also used in the sense "springtime") -TUY
  MORNING (noun) arin (LT1:254 gives cálë, but this word means "light" in later writings), MORNING (used as adj?) arinya (early) -AR1
  MORTAL fírima (pl. Fírimar is attested, lit. "those apt to die", WJ:387), also in the personal (masculine) form #fírimo (pl. allative fírimonnar "to mortals", VT44:35). Firya (pl. Firyar is attested); MORTAL MAN firë (pl firi is given but seems perfectly regular) -PHIR, WJ:387
  MOTHER amillë, also short amil (probably with stem amill-), ammë; the form nana is a hypocoristic *"mom". The form ontaril in VT43:32 and the variants #ontari, #ontarië in VT44:7, 18 seem to be more technical terms, etymologically *"female begetter". MOTHER-NAME (OF INSIGHT) #amilessë (tercenya) (i.e., names given by Elvish mothers to their children, indicating some dominant feature of the nature of the child as perceived by its mother. Only pl amilessi tercenyë is attested.) MOTHER OF GOD (Mary, in Tolkien's Quenya renderings of Catholic prayers) Eruamillë, Eruontari, Eruontarië -VT43:32, VT44:18-19, AM1, NAN, VT43:32, MR:217, VT43:32, VT44:7, 18
  MOUND coron, hahta (pile), cumbë (heap), tundo (hill) -Sil:429, KHAG, KUB, TUN
  MOUNTAIN oron (#oront-, as in the pl. oronti) (oron also used = "mount", e.g. Oron Oiolossë "Mount Everwhite"), MOUNTAIN-PEAK aicassë; MOUNTAIN-TOP orto; MOUNTAIN PASS falqua (cleft, ravine), MOUNTAIN-DWELLING (adj) orofarnë (pl? Sg *orofarna?) -ÓROT/WJ:403, AYAK, LT2:341, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224
  MOUTH anto, pé (but pé is glossed "lip" in a late source, see VT39:9), assa (hole, opening, perforation), náva ("ñ") (not only the lips but also the inside of the mouth - this word was apparently changed by Tolkien from páva), MOUTH OF RIVER etsir, WITH MOUTH FULL (= full to the brim) penquanta -LotR:1157, PEG, GAS, VT39:13 cf. 8, 19, ET, VT39:11
  MOVE (intr., of large and heavy things:) rúma- (part. rúmala is attested) (shift, heave) -MC:223, 222
  MUCH olya (adj.), olë (adv.) -PE14:80
  MURK hui (fog, dark, night), MURKY huiva -LT1:253
  MURMUR nurru- (grumble) -MC:223
  MUSCLE tuo (sinew, strength) -TUG
  MUSIC lindalë (as in Ainulindalë "The Music of the Ainur"; LT1:258 has lindelë; the latter is also glossed "song". The form lindelë "music" also turns up in the printed Etymologies, entry LIN2, but according to VT45:27, this is a misreading for lindalë in Tolkien's manuscript.) -Silm:378, LIN2/VT45:27
  MY-nya (possessive suffix, e.g. *aldanya "my tree". An i seems to be inserted between the ending and the noun when the latter ends in a consonant: atarinya "my father" (LR:61). If the last consonant(s) of the noun is n or the cluster nd, a contracted form may be used in vocatives: hinya "my child" (for hínanya, WJ:403), yonya "my son" (for *yondonya, LR:61).  

  <N>
  NAIL (prob. noun) taxë -TAK
  NAKED helda -SKEL
  NAME (noun) essë (pl. essi is attested, but see below concerning #esser as a possible alternative pl. form. Note: the word essë was also used in the sense "person as a whole", body and soul.) AFTER-NAME epessë (i.e., "a nickname - mostly given as a title of admiration or honour"); MOTHER-NAME (OF INSIGHT) #amilessë (tercenya) (i.e. names given by Elvish mothers to their children, indicating some dominant feature of the nature of the child as perceived by its mother. Only pl amilessi tercenyë is attested.) NAME OF INSIGHT #essë tercenya (i.e., the same as "mother-name"; only pl essi tercenyë is attested); GIVEN (OR ADDED) NAME anessë (pl anessi is attested. This term includes both "after-names" and "mother-names".) NAME-MAKING Essecarmë (an Eldarin seremony in which the father of a child announces its name), NAME-CHOOSING Essecilmë (an Eldarin seremony in which a person chooses a name according to his or her personal lámatyávë or sound-taste); SELF-NAME #cilmessë (only pl. cilmessi is attested, said to mean more literally "names of personal choice": #cilmë "choice" + essi "names". PM:339 explains that "some among the exiles gave themselves names, as disguises or in reference to their own deeds and personal history: such names were called kilmessi 'self-names'.") PLACE NAME #nómessë (isolated from the gen. pl. form nómesseron, "of place-names", VT42:17. This word suggests that the plural of essë can be esser as well as essi). -ES/LotR:1157/MR:216, UT:266, MR:217, 214, VT42:17
  NAME (verb) esta- -ES, VT45:12
  NARRATIVE quenta (story, history) -KWET/VT39:16
  NARRATOR quentaro -KWET
  NARROW arca, lenwa (long and thin, straight) NARROW NECK yatta (isthmus); NARROW PATH axa; NARROW PROMONTORY nehtë (spear-head, gore, wedge. Note: a homophone means "honeycomb) -AK, LT2:341, YAK, UT:282                   
  NASAL nengwëa -NEÑ-WI
  NASTY úra (evil) (Note: a homophone means "large") -VT43:24
  NATION nórë, -nor (land, country, dwelling-place, native land, family) -LT1:272 
  NATIVE LAND nórë, -nor (land, country, dwelling-place, nation, family) -LT1:272 
  NATURE ëa (universe). This term "was not held to include [illegible word: souls?] and spirits" -VT39:20
  NAZGÛL Úlairi (Ring-wraiths) (pl; sg #Úlairë?) -Silm:362, 417
  NEAR har, harë -LT1:253
  NECESSITY #sangië (isolated from sangiessemman "in our necessities") -VT43:21, 44:8
  NECK yat (yaht-); NARROW NECK yatta (isthmus) -YAK
  NECKLACE firinga (carnanet) -LT2:346, GL:36
  NECTAR míruvórë (mead, drink of the Valar) -Nam, RGEO:66, LT1:260
  NEED (prob. noun) maurë -MBAW
  NEPTUNE Nénar (or less probably Luinil; it is not known for certain which of the two is Neptune and which is Uranus) -Basic Quenya:24, Silm:55 
  NET natsë (web) -NAT
  NEW vinya (cf. Vinyamar "New Dwelling", Vinyalondë "New Haven"), sinya. NEW LIFE laito, laisi (vigour, youth) -Silm:425, UT:471, SIN, LT1:267
  NEXT ento -Arct
  NICKNAME ("mostly given as a title of admiration or honour") epessë (after-name) -UT:266 
  NIGHT lómë, ("Night, night-time, [shades of night]", in LT1:255 glossed "dusk, gloom, darkness"; according to SD:415, lómë has the stem-form lómi-), Fui, Hui ("Night" - but in LT1:253, hui is glossed "fog, dark, murk, night"), ló ("night, a night"), mórë (blackness, dark - obsoleting mori in LT1:260). In Valinorean usage, lómë "has no evil connotations; it is a word of peace and beauty and has none of the associations of fear and groping that, say, 'dark' has to us. For the evil sense I [Tolkien's character Lowdham] do not know the [Quenya] word". For "night" in the "evil sense", mórë seems to be the best candidate. Yet lómë evidently developed darker connotations among the Exiles, for when crying auta i lómë "the night is passing" before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Noldor used the word metaphorically to mean the rule of Morgoth. DOOR OF NIGHT, see DOOR. -DO3, PHUY, SD:306, Silm:229 
  NIGHTINGALE lómelindë (pl lómelindi is attested; Etym also has morilindë), tindómerel ("daughter of twilight", a kenning of or a poetic name for the nightingale; the Sindarin equivalent is tinúviel. Tolkien changed the meaning of the final element from "daughter" to "child", see SEL-D-.) -DO3, Silm:64, MOR, TIN/Silm:422, 438
  NINE nertë (obsoleting olma in LT1:258) -NÉTER
  NO lá (also meaning "not". Lá is probably used to deny facts, or what others present as facts. In some contexts, the interjection vá is to be preferred. It is derived from a stem that "expressed refusal to do what others might wish or urge, or prohibition of some action by others.) Cf also lala, lau, laumë "no, no indeed not, on the contrary; also used for asking incredulous questions". Prefixes "no-, un-": ú-, il-. SAY NO váquet- (forbid, refuse) (1st pers. sg aorist and past váquetin, váquenten are given), ava- (refuse) (pa.t. avanë is given; this verb was "little used in ordinary language"). -LA, WJ:371 cf. 370, GÛ, WJ:370, KWET
  NO LONGER TO BE HAD vanwa (gone, dead, departed, lost, past, vanished) -WJ:366
  NOBLE (a noble:) arquen The element #ar- in Arfanyarassë (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered). Arquen is simply #ar "noble" + quen "person". NOBLE WOMAN (one of Galadriel's names) Artanis. -WJ:372, WJ:416, PM:347
  NOGROD Návarot (Hollowbold, Novrod) -WJ:389
  NOISE ran, roaring noise rávë, (noise of a) storm raumo -LT1:259, MC:223
  NOLDORIN Noldorin (= the language of the Noldor), Noldorinwa (= general adjective) -WJ:20, LR:201
  NOMAN Úner -UT:211
  NORMAL sanya (Þ) (regular, law-abiding) -STAN
  NORTH Formen, fortë (right); NORTHERN formenya; NORTHLANDS (a region in Númenor) Forostar -PHOR, LotR:1157, UT:165, 439
  NOSE nengwë, mundo (snout, cape) (Note: the latter word also means "ox") -NEÑ-WI, MBUD
  NOT lá (as for not- as a prefix = un-, see below). According to VT42:33, lá is the stressed form of the negation, whereas la is the unstressed form (cf. la- as the pretonic prefix *"not-" or *"un-", VT45:25). NO INDEED NOT lala; DON'T áva, avá; DON'T DO IT! áva carë!; I WILL NOT: vá (exclamation, also = Do not!); avan, ván, vanyë "I won't", avammë, vammë "we won't"; NOT COUNTING hequa (leaving aside, excluding, except), NOT COUNTED unotë, unotëa (read *únotë, *únotëa?) (uncounted), NOT TO BE SAID, THAT MUST NOT BE SAID avaquétima, NOT TO BE TOLD OR RELATED avanyárima -LA, WJ:371, 364/365, VT39:14, WJ:370
  NOT- (prefix denying presence or possession of thing or quality) ú- (in-, un-). -VT39:14; according to LR:396 s.v. UGU, this prefix usually has a "bad sense", cf. vanimor "fair folk" vs. úvanimor "monsters"
  NOTHING munta -PE14:81
  NOVEMBER Hísimë -LotR:1144
  NOVROD Návarot (Hollowbold, Nogrod) -WJ:389
  NOW sí, sín/sin (the latter form may evidently be used when the next word has an initial vowel; cf. the distribution of "a" and "an" in English. However, sí may also occur before vowels; the word appears before ar "and" in a text published in VT43:27). Variant si. -SI, cf. LR:47, VT43:27, VT43:34
  NUMBER nótë, LARGE NUMBER hosta, IN A VERY GREAT NUMBER úvëa; NUMBERLESS únótima (pl. únótimë attested) (uncountable, countless) -NOT, KHOTH, UB, Nam/VT39:14
  NUMEROUS rimba (frequent)
  NYMPH wingil, wingild- (pl WIngildi is attested); falmar, falmarin (falmarind-) (Writers should use falmarin rather than falmar, thus avoiding any possible confusion with falmar "waves".) -WIG/LT1:273, PHAL
  
  <O>
  O (vocative particle) a, e.g. a Eruion "(o) Son of God". -VT44:12, 15; LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308 
  OAK norno; HAVING MANY OAK-TREES lindornëa -DÓRON, LIN
  OATH vérë (bond, troth, compact. Pl. probably *vérer not *véri; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste", pl tyáver), vanda (pledge, solemn promise) -WED, UT:317
  OBLIGED nauta (bound) -NUT
  OBSCURE nulla (dark, dusky) OBSCURITY mordo (shadow, stain, smear, dimness) -NDUL, MOR/VT45:35
  OBSERVE - use the word glossed "watch, heed", q.v. Cf. LT1:258.
  OCCASION lú (a time) -LU
  OCEAN (see SEA) The Great Ocean Alatairë (= Sindarin Belegaer); The Outer Ocean Vai (=Ekkaia?) -AYAR, LT1:271
  OCTOBER Narquelië -LotR:1144/1146
  ODOUR holmë -ÑOL
  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"), hó- (verbal prefix implying motion away from something, but the point of view is outside the thing left: cf. hóciri- "cut off a required portion, so as to have it or use it") -WJ:365, 366, 368
  OGRE Úvanimo (see MONSTER). CANNIBAL-OGRES Sarquindi (sg #Sarquindë?) -LT1:236 cf. BAN, LT2:347 
  OINTMENT laivë -LIB
  OLD yára (ancient, belonging to or descending from former times); intensive #anyára is attested with a dative ending in the phrase meldenya anyáran *"for my oldest [or, very old] friend" in the Elaine inscription. Other words translated "old": enwina, linyenwa (having many years), (of things:) yerna (worn); OLDEN yárëa, yalúmëa, GET OLD yerya- (wear [out]) -MC:222 cf. 215, YEN, GYER
  OMINOUS lumna (lying heavy, burdensome, oppressive) -DUB
  OMNIFICENT ilucara (VT39:20)
  OMNIPOTENT iluvala (VT39:20)
  OMNISCIENT iluisa (VT39:20)
  ON or (so in LT1:256, but in LotR-style Quenya or is always translated "over". Generally, English "on" may be rendered by the allative case, see UPON.) ON BEHALF OF rá, followed by dative, as in the example rá men "on behalf of us, for us". Dative pronouns may be directly suffixed to rá: "for us" or "on behalf of us" is also attested in the one-word form rámen. (Note: rá is also a noun "lion".) -VT43:27, 28, 33
  ONCE UPON A TIME yassë, yalúmessë, yáressë (Note: the first of these seems to clash with *yassë "in/on which". Writers should use one of the two alternative forms.) -YA
  ONE minë (obsoleting mir in LT1:260; a short variant min appears in VT45:34)), er (only, one, alone, but, still). A longer form of er, namely erëa, was possibly abandoned by Tolkien (VT44:17). According to an early source, min is "one" as the first of a series, whereas er is "one" in the context of something that is alone (Parma Eldalamberon #14, p. 82). ONE (= a person, someone) quén pl queni (unstressed quen, "as a pronoun or final element in a compound"); THE ONE Eru (see GOD) -MINI, ERE/VT44:17, WJ:361 cf. 360, Silm:15, 431
  ONLY er (but, still), eressë (singly, alone, also as noun = solitude) -LT1:269, ERE
  OPEN (vb) panta- (unfurl, spread out); OPEN WIDE palu-, palya- (extend); OPEN (adj) panta, láta ("open, not closed", VT41:5); (of land:) latin, latina (free, cleared); OPENING assa (hole, performation, mouth), latya (used as an abstract in the source), OPENNESS látië; OPENMOUTHED fauca (thirsty, parched) -PAT, PAL, VT39:23, LAT, GAS, VT39:23/VT41:5, PHAU
  OPPRESSIVE lumna (lying heavy, burdensome, ominous) -DUB
  OR (conjunction) var -QL:100
  ORANGE culuina (colour adjective), culuma (fruit) -KUL
  ORC (goblin) urco (stem urcu-, pl. urqui) or orco (pl. orqui or orcor, in the former case probably with stem *orcu- throughout). LT1:264 has orc, but word-final rc does not occur in LotR-style 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." -ÓROK, LT1:264, WJ:390
  ORDAINER Námo (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 á vala Manwë "may Manwë order it", Valar valuvar "the will of the Valar will be done", *"the Valar will order [it]". -UT:388, WJ:404
  ORIENT ambaron (ambarón-), Ambarónë (a similar but untranslated word, Ambaróna, 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  
  OUR: Tolkien's ideas about the third person plural pronouns, including "our", changed over time. "Our" is expressed by the ending -mma in Tolkien's Quenya translation of the Lord's Prayer, e.g. Átaremma "our Father" (VT43:12). This "our" is exclusive, meaning "their and my", not including the person(s) addressed. However, Tolkien later changed the consonants characteristic for the 3rd person pl. exlusive pronouns from -mm- to -lm-, so we must apparently read *-lma for -mma. The forms in -mm- were retained, but this now became a dual pronoun (VT43:6); it is not known whether it is inclusive or exclusive, or whether this distinction is even maintained in the dual form. The ending for plural inclusive "our" (sc. "our" meaning "your and mine") Tolkien eventually decided should be -lva, attested with the genitive ending -o in omentielvo "of our meeting" (LotR:94). An independent word for "our" (evidently exclusive) appears in VT43:19, 35: menya, or menyë modifying a plural noun. Some would assume that the corresponding inclusive form is *venya (pl. *venyë). -LotR:94, cf. Letters:447, VT43:19, 35
  OUT et- (prefix) (forth), OUT OF et (followed by ablative) -ET, LotR:1003/VT45:13
  OUTCAST hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecilë f.) (one lost or forsaken by friends, waif, outlaw) -WJ:365
  OUTER, OUTERMOST erúmëa -LT1:262
  OUTER LANDS Entar, Entarda (Middle-earth, East, Thither Lands [as seen from Valinor]), ettelë (the word is not capitalized and seems to be sg) (foreign parts); OUTER OCEAN Vai (= Ekkaia?) -ET, LT1:271 
  OUTLAW hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecilë f.) (one lost or forsaken by friends, waif, outcast) -WJ:365
  OUTSIDE ara (beside), ava (beyond), ettë, etsë (the two latter forms seem to be "outside" as a noun rather than a preposition);  (prefix:) ar- (e.g. Araman "outside Aman") -AR2; AWA, ET, Silm:428, VT45:13
  OVEN urna -LT1:271
  OVER or. For "over" in the sense past, see PAST AND OVER. -UT:305
  OVERCAST lúrëa (dark) -LT1:259
  OVERSHADOW  telta- (canopy, screen) -TEL
  OW! horro, orro (alas! ugh) ("exclamation of horror, pain, disgust") -VT45:17
  OX mundo (Note: a homophone 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 LotR-style Quenya), but the word may not be conceptually valid in LotR-style Quenya. See OX above. -LT2:347 
    
  <P>
  PACE ranga (pl rangar is stated to mean "full paces"). The ranga was a Númenórean linear measure of approximately 38 inches (96.5 cm); see YARD. -UT:285
  PAGAN GOD see GOD
  PAIN (vb) nwalya- (torment). (Though spelt this way also in Etym, nwalya- must be from older *ngwalya, for the stem is ÑGWAL. In Tengwar spelling, the letter nwalmë (< older ngwalmë) should be used to transcribe the initial nw of nwalya.) PAIN (noun) naicelë, naicë (= sharp pain); PAINFUL naicelëa -ÑGWAL, NÁYAK
  PALATAL SERIES tyelpetéma -LotR:1154
  PALE marya (fallow, fawn), malwa (fallow), isca. PALE BLUE helwa -MAD, SMAL, LT1:256, 3EL
  PALLID ninquë (chill, white) -WJ:417 cf. NIK-W-
  PANSY helin, Helinyetillë ("Eyes of heartsease") (violet) -LT1:262
  PARCHED fauca (openmouthed, thirsty) -PHAU
  PARCHMENT - in LT2:346, parma "book" is glossed "parchment", but see BARK.
  PARENT  #nostar (only pl nostari is attested); also ontar with gender-specific forms ontaro (m), ontarë or ontari (f) (begetter) -LotR:1017 cf. Letters:308, ONO, VT44:7
  PART (noun) #ranta (pl. rantali attested). FOREIGN PARTS ettelë (outer lands) -PE14:117, ET, VT45:12 
  PASS auta- (leave, go away); pa.t. oantë, oantië (in the physical sense "went away [to another place]", vánë ("the most frequently used past [tense]" - less "physical" than oantë, meaning *"disappeared" rather than "passed away"), also anwë (this pa.t. was "only found in archaic language"), perf. avánië (pl. avánier is attested); perf. vánië with no augment may occur in verse. -WJ:366; for the gloss "pass" see Silm:229
  PASS - mountain pass: falqua (cleft, ravine); pass between hills: cilya (cleft, gorge) (so in Etym, but #cirya in the name Calacirya "Pass of Light" [gen. Calaciryo in Namárië] - though this clashes with cirya "ship". An early version of Namárië actually had Calacilyo not Calaciryo; see An Introduction to Elvish p. 5) -LT2:341, KIL
  PASSAGE tarna (crossing, #ford) -LT2:347
  PAST, PAST AND OVER (adj) vanwa (departed, lost, vanished, dead, no longer to be had), PAST (noun = past time) vanwië -WAN, Nam
  PATH tië (course, line, direction, way, road); #vanda (isolated from Qualvanda "Road of Death" in LT1:264; cf. vand- "way, path" on the same page); NARROW PATH axa (ravine);
-TE3/RGEO:67/UT:22 cf. 51, LT1:264, AK
  PATRONAGE #ortírië (attested with endings: ortírielyanna, "to thy patronage") -VT45:7
  PAUSE lár (also a Númenórean linear measure, nearly one league - see LEAGUE.) -UT:285
  PAVED FLOOR paca (court) -TAL, GL:63
  PEACE sérë (repose, rest), rainë, sívë; AT PEACE senda (resting) -SED, VT44:35
  PEAK aicalë; MOUNTAIN PEAK aicassë, also #rassë or #ras (isolated from Arfanyarassë, Arfanyaras "high white-shining peak"). -AYAK, WJ:416
  PEARL marilla -LT1:265
  PEBBLE-BANK sarnië (shingle) -UT:463  
  PEER tihta- (blink) -MC:223
  PEN tecil -TEK
  PENGOLODH Quendingoldo, Quengoldo -PM:401, 404-405
  PEOPLE lië, nossë (kin, house). Originally nórë meant "people", but in later [MET] Quenya it means primarily "land". SOME PEOPLE queni -LI, VT39:6, LT1:250/LT2:338, WJ:361 cf. 360 
  PERCEPTION, KEENNESS OF laicë (acuteness) The conceptual validity of this word is questionable; see PIERCING. -LAIK
  PEREDHIL Pereldar (the Half-Elven) -Letters:386, cf. LotR:1071  
  PERFORMATION assa (hole, opening, mouth) -GAS
  PERIOD (endless) oio -UT:317
  PERPETUAL #oien (isolated from oiencarmë "perpetual production" - but it has also been suggested that this is oi-en-carmë *"ever-re-making", so the word oien is rather doubtful) -MR:329 
  PERSON quén (stem quen-, as in pl. queni) (one, somebody); PERSON AS A WHOLE (body + soul) essë (basically meaning "name"), erdë ("singularity". Note: a homophone means "seed, germ".) -WJ:361 cf. 360, MR:216
  PETITION #arcandë (isolated from arcandemmar "our petitions") Another form, #anarcandë, was apparently abandoned by Tolkien. -VT44:8
  PETTY #pitya (isolated from Pitya-naucor "petty-dwarves", see below).
  PETTY-DWARVES Attalyar (lit. "Bipeds"), Picinaucor, Pitya-naucor (lit. *"small dwarves") -WJ:388, 389
  PHANTOM fairë ("phantom, disembodied spirit, when seen as a pale shape" - pl. fairi is attested. Note: fairë has other shades of meaning as well as wholly different meanings - see SPIRIT, DEATH, RADIANCE, FREEDOM) -MC:223, 221
  PHARAZÔN Calion (see AR-PHARAZÔN) -UT:224, Silm:324
  PHONETIC #hlonítë (only attested in the pl. in hloníti tengwi "phonetic signs", changed by Tolkien from hlonaiti tengwi) -WJ:395, VT39:4
  PHONOLOGY - lambelë is said to mean "Language (especially with reference to phonology)" (VT39:15)
  PHYSICAL MATTER orma, hroa (also used = "body"); PHYSICAL STRENGTH tuo -MR:218, 216, TUG
  PICK (UP, OUT) WITH THE FINGERS lepta- -VT44:16
  PIECE mitta -PE14:81
  PIERCING maica (sharp), terevë (fine, acute), laica (keen, sharp, acute). (The printed Etymologies has a final -e instead of -a, but according to VT45:25 this is a misreading. A word laike = laicë does appear in the source, but this is the noun corresponding to laica: "acuteness, keenness of perception". The conceptual validity of both laica and laicë with these meanings may however be questioned, since laica is the adjective "green" in later sources: laicë would then be expected to mean *"greenness".) -Silm:434, LT1:255, LT2:337, LAIK
 [?PIG-]FAT (the first part of the gloss is not certainly legible) larma (flesh) -VT45:26
  PILE hahta (mound) -KHAG
  PILLAR tarma, tulwë (standard, pole) -Silm:438, LT1:270
  PILLOW quesset (probably with stem *quessec- since the "Noldorin"/Sindarin cognate is given as pesseg, pointing to older *kwessek-). -KWES
  PIN tancil (brooch) -TAK
  PINETREE - GL:17 has aicassë, but in Etym this word is said to mean "mountain-peak".
  PINNACLE (topmost) see FINISH.
  PIPE simpa, simpina (flute), rotsë. PIPER simpetar, PIPING simpisë -LT1:266, LT2:347
  PIT latta (hole - Note: a homophone means "strap") -DAT
  PIVOT peltas (pl peltaxi) -PEL
  PLACE #nómë (isolated from nómesseron, compound "of place-names", VT42:17). In Etym the word for "place" is men, though this word would clash with the dative pronoun *men "to/for us"; #nómë may be preferred not only for clarity but also because it is apparently present in the LotR itself in the word sinomë "in this place" (Elendil's Declaration); -nomë would be the compound form of nómë. STRONG PLACE sarnë. AT BACK OF PLACE, see BEHIND. Verb WISH TO GO TO A PLACE mína- (desire to go in some direction, make for it, have some end in view) -VT42:17, MEN, LotR:1003, SD:56, SAR, VT39:11
 *PLANT #olva (only pl olvar is attested, never actually translated "plants" but defined as "growing things with roots in the earth"); LONG TRAILING PLANT uilë ("especially sea-weed", which is explicitly ëaruilë) -Silm:415, UY
  PLAY (vb) tyalin ("I play", 1st pers. aorist), PLAY (noun) tyalië (game, sport) -TYAL/LT1:260
  PLEDGE vanda (oath, solemn promise) -UT:317
  PLENITUDE fárë (all that is wanted, sufficiency) -PHAR
  PLIANT maxa (soft) -MASAG
  PLOUGH hyar; THE PLOUGH (constellation) see SICKLE OF THE VALAR. -LT2:342
  PLUM pio (also used for "cherry") -LT2:347
  POEM lairë (Note: a homophone means "summer"), lirit -GLIR, LT1:258
  POINT mentë (end), nasta (spearhead, gore, triangle), tixë (dot, tiny mark), tildë (horn), amatixë (point/dot over the line of writing), nuntixë (point/dot under the line of writing) -MET, SNAS, TIK, TIL 
  POISON (noun) sangwa -SAG
  POLE tulwë (standard) -LT1:270
  POLISHED COPPER calarus (calarust-) -VT41:10
  POLLEN malo (yellow powder) -SMAL
  POOL nendë, linya, ailin (lake), ringë (cold lake); POOL OF LILIES nénuvar -NEN, LIN, AY, RINGI, LT1:248
  POPLAR-TREE tyulussë; HAVING MANY POPLARS lintyulussëa -TYUL, LIN
  POPPY fúmella (pl. fumellar [read *fúmellar?] is attested), fúmellot (prob. fúmellót-; cf. lótë "flower") -LT1:252
  POSSESS harya-; POSSESSING arwa (+ genitive) (in control of) (Note: harya- is not used of one's offspring. In MR:228, Tolkien notes that "no Elf would speak of possessing children; he would say: 'three children have been added unto me', or 'are with me', or 'are in my house'.") -3AR
  POST (wooden post) samna (Þ) (Distinct from #samna "diphthong" in Tengwar spelling, as the latter is spelt with initial silmë, not súlë.) -STAB
  POTTER cemnaro, centano -KEM, TAN
  POUR ulya- (intransitive pa. t. ullë, transitive ulyanë; plural subjunctive ullier "should pour" is attested. These forms may obsolete ulu- and ulto- "pour" [transitive and intransitive] in LT1:270); POURING úlëa (flooding, flowing) -ULU, SD:310
  POUT penga- (VT39:11)
  POWDER (yellow) malo (pollen) -SMAL
  PRAISE (vb) laita- (bless) (Imperative a laita and fut #laituva are attested, the latter with pronominal endings: laituvalmet, "we shall praise them") PRAISE (noun) #laitalë (isolated from Erulaitalë "Praise of Eru") -LotR:989 cf Letters:308, UT:436
  PRAY #hyam- (attested in the form hyamë, evidently incorporating the ending -ë of the aorist stem), arca- (the latter perhaps primarily in the sense "to petition", cf. the noun arcandë "petition"). -VT43:32, 33 (VT44:8, 18)
  PRAYER #cyermë (isolated from Erucyermë ["k"], "prayer to Eru". A verbal stem #cyer- "pray" can also be isolated, though it may be better to use attested verbs like #hyam- or arca-.) -UT:436
  PRECIOUS THING mírë (jewel, treasure, shining jewel) -MIR
  PRECIPICE (seaward) ollo (cliff) (The alternative form oldó may be archaic Quenya.) -LT1:252
  PRESS sanga (crowd, throng) -STAG/Silm:438
  PRESSURE (to do something against one's will or conscience) sahtië (Þ) (force) -VT43:22
  PREVENT FROM COMING TO COMPLETION nuhta- (stunt, stop short, not allow to continue) -WJ:413
  PRICK erca-, nasta- (sting); PRICKLE, SPINE erca -ERÉK, NAS
 ?PRIMARY (Tolkien's handwriting was illegible) *yessëa (emended from the actual reading essea - see BEGINNING) -ESE
  PRINCE †cundu, haryon (heir); PRINCESS aranel -KUNDÛ/VT45:24, 3AR, UT:434
  PRINCIPAL (prob. adj not noun) héra (chief) -KHER 
  PRIVACY aquapahtië (literally *"fully-closedness", used of a mind that closes itself against telepathic communication) -VT39:23
  PROCEED (in any direction) lelya- (pa.t. lendë) (go, travel) -WJ:363
  PRODUCTION carmë (glossed "art" in UT:396, but cf. Oiencarmë Eruo "the One's perpetual production". Carmë is also translated "making".) -MR:329
  PROFOUND tumna (low-lying, low, deep, dark or hidden) -LT1:271 cf. TUB
  PROLONG taita- -TAY
  PROMINENT minda (conspicuous) -MINI
  PROMISE (noun) (solemn promise:) vanda (oath, pledge) -UT:317
  PROMONTORY (narrow) nehtë (gore, wedge, spear-head. Note: a homophone means "honeycomb".) -UT:282
  PROP tulco (support) -TULUK 
  PROPER vanima (fair, beautiful, right) -LT1:272
  PROSPEROUS alya (rich, abundant, blessed); PROSPERITY autë (wealth, also adj: rich) -GALA, LT2:336
  PROTECT varya-; PROTECTED varna (safe, secure) -BAR
  PROVERBIAL DICTUM ("a saying, a current or proverbial dictum") eques (pl. equessi) (dictum, quotation, saying) -WJ:392
  PROW OF A SHIP lango (broad sword) -LAG
  P-SERIES parmatéma (labials) -LotR:1154
  PUFF hwesta-; PUFF OF AIR hwesta (breath, breeze) -SWES
  PULL saca- (Þ) (draw). Since saca- may also mean "look for", it may be better to use #tuc- "draw", q.v. -VT43:23
  PURE poica -POY
  PURSUE roita- -ROY1
    PUT ASIDE hehta- (pa.t. hehtanë is given but seems perfectly regular) (leave out, exclude, abandon, forsake); PUT A STOP TO pusta- (stop, cease) -WJ:365, PUS
  PUT FORTH LEAVES OR FLOWERS *lohta- (emended from the actual reading lokta because Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) (sprout) -LT:258
  PUTRID saura (Þ) (foul, evil-smelling)  - in compounds #sauri-, see FOUL. -THUS

  <Q>
  QUANTITY (great) úvë (abundance) -UB
  QUARREL costa- -KOT
  QUEEN tári (gen. tário and dative tárin are also attested, the latter in the Elaine inscription). LT1:260 gives turinqui "queen", while LT1:273 gives vardi, but these are hardly valid words in LotR-style Quenya. QUEEN OF STARS (Varda's title) Elentári (so in LotR and Silm; Etym has also Tinwetári, Tinwetar, Tinwerontar); QUEEN OF THE EARTH Kementári (a title of Yavanna) -TÂ/LT1:264/Nam/RGEO:67, Silm:55/437/30
  QUICK SHAKE rincë (flourish) -RIK
  QUIET (noun) quildë (rest, hush) -GL:23
  QUIVER vainolë -LT1:271
  QUOTATION eques (pl. equessi) (dictum, proverbial dictum, saying) -WJ:392

  <R>
  RACE nórë (land, country, dwelling-place, nation, native land, family) -NÔ
  RADAGAST Aiwendil ("Lover of Birds", his original Valinorean name, not an actual translation of "Radagast", which is either Adûnaic for "Tender of Beasts" or a Mannish name of uncertain meaning) -UT:393/417, cf. 390, 401
  RADIANCE alcar, alcarë (brilliance, splendour), incalë (compare Ancalë or "Radiant One" as a name of the Sun, LR:392 s.v. KAL, though it is not clear whether or not Tolkien abandoned this word), fairë (Note: the word fairë has several other meanings - see DEATH, FREEDOM, PHANTOM), nalta (glittering reflection - alata in Silm:433 is the Telerin form, and alta in VT42:32 would seem to be a variant. In PM:347, nalta is spelt with initial ñ, 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 númen.) RADIANT alcarinqua (glorious) -AKLA-R, VT45:36, PHAY, PM:347, WJ:369 (where alkar is translated "splendour")
  RAGE aha -LotR:1157
  RAIN mistë (fine rain), rossë (fine rain, dew, spray), ucco; RAINBOW helyanwë (lit. "sky-bridge"), Ilweran, Ilweranta. (LT2 has iluquinga "sky-bow", but this was obsoleted together with ilu "sky"; see SKY.) -MIZD, ROS cf. Letters:282, GL:74, 3EL, LT1:256, LT2:348
  RAISE orta- (lift up, rise) (pa.t. ortanë is attested; orta- probably obsoletes orto- in LT1:256), amu- -ORO, Nam, RGEO:67, LT2:335
  RAPID larca, alarca -LAK
  RAT *nyarro ("nyano" in LR:379 must be a misreading; primitive *nyadrô could impossibly become nyano in Quenya). -NYAD
  RAVINE axa (narrow path), yáwë (cleft, gulf), falqua (cleft, mountain pass) -AK, LT2:341
  RAY OF LIGHT alca; RAY OF THE SUN firin (the latter may not be a valid word in LotR-style Quenya; it would clash with the verb "I fade" or "I die"). -AKLA-R, LT2:341
 "RAYMENT, VEILS" fana (pl fanar is attested. This word was used of the visible bodies in which the Valar presented themselves to incarnates.) -RGEO:74 
  RE- (prefix) en- (as in entulessë "return" and envinyatar "renewer", q.v. Also used on verbs: #enquat- "refill" [only fut. enquantuva is attested, see REFILL]. Before the consonants l, m, r, s, the prefix en- would be assimilated to *el-, *em-, *er-, and *es-, respectively. Very early [The Lost Tales] "Qenya" has an- instead of en- [see LT1:184].)
  REACH *rahta- (strech out) (Emended from the actual reading rakta; Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) -LT1:335
  REAL anwa (actual, true) -ANA2
  REALM arda (region). This word means "any more or less bounded or defined place, a region" (WJ:402) or "a particular land or region" (WJ:413). Arda (with a capital A) was "the name given to our world or earth...within the immensity of Eä". -3AR, Letters:283 
  REAR (noun) tellë -TELES
  RECALL (i.e. remember) #enyal- (inf. or gerund enyalië) -UT:302, 317
  RECKON not-; *RECKONING #onótië (isolated from Yénonótië *"reckoning of years"), *RECKONER Onótimo (the untranslated title of one Quennar, an expert of chronology) -NOT, MR:48-51
  RECEIVE tuvu- (same as in utúvienyes "I have found it"? See FIND) -GL:71
  RED carnë, aira ("ruddy, copper-coloured"), *narwa ("fiery red", cited in the archaic form narwâ in the source. Cf. nárë "flame"), nasar (adopted from Valarin; used in Vanyarin Quenya only); RED [HEAT?] (Tolkien's handwriting was illegible) yulmë (Note: a homophone means "drinking, carousal".) RED FLAME rúnya, WITH ADORNMENT OF RED JEWELS carnimírië (a pl form? Sg *carnimírëa? Letters:224 has carne- instead of carni-.) -KARÁN/Silm:429, GAY, NAR, WJ:399, YUL, Silm:437, LotR:505 cf. Letters:224
  REDEEMER #runando (isolated from Mardorunando, "Redeemer of the World") -VT45:17
  REED liscë (sedge) -LT2:335 (GL:34 also gives feng-, but some ending would be required)
  REEK usquë -USUK
  REFILL #enquat- (only fut. enquantuva is attested, but cf. quat- "fill" in WJ:392) -Nam
  REFLECTION (glittering) nalta (radiance - alata in Silm:433 is the Telerin form. In PM:347, nalta is spelt with initial ñ, 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 númen.) -PM:347
  REFUSE váquet- (forbid, say no) (1st pers. sg aorist and past váquetin, váquenten are given) avaquet- (forbid) (pa.t. is no doubt *avaquentë; cf. quet- under SAY), ava- (say no). (Pa.t. avanë is given; this verb was "little used in ordinary language".)  -WJ:370, KWET
  REGARDS - see AS REGARDS
  REGION ména, arda (realm), harda -MEN, LotR:1157, VT45:12
  REGULAR sanya (Þ) (law-abiding, normal) -STAN
  RELATE #nyar- (cited as nyarin, 1st pers. aorist) (tell); NOT TO BE TOLD OR RELATED avanyárima -NAR2, WJ:370
  RELEASE lerya- (set free, let go), fainu-, apsenë- (remit, forgive; see FORGIVE). RELEASED lehta (free); RELEASED ELEMENT (a term for "vowel") #lehta tengwë (only pl. lehta tengwi is attested; we would rather expect *lehtë tengwi). -VT41:5, 6, LT2:250, VT43:18, 20, VT39:17
  REMAIN lemya- (to tarry). Possibly this verb should have the past tense *lemnë rather than ?lemyanë, since intransitive verbs in -ya may seem to surrender this suffix in the past tense. REMAINS erin (evidently a verb; the ending -n for 3rd person rather than 1st person would not be valid in later Quenya. A verbal stem #er- "remain" may perhaps be isolated, but the source is very early and writers should rather use lemya-.) -VT45:26, LT1:269
  REMEMBER, see RECALL
  REMIT apsenë- (release, forgive; see FORGIVE). -VT43:18, 20
  REMOTE haira (far), eccaira, avahaira, vaháya or avaháya -KHAYA, VT45:21
  REND narca- (in the Etymologies as published in LR, "narka" in Tolkien's manuscript was misread as "narki"; see VT45:37), RENDING naraca (harsh, violent) (possibly "of sounds", but Tolkien's extra comment is partially illegible) -NÁRAK, VT45:37
  RENEW #envinyata- (heal) (isolated from Envinyatar, see below. Past participle Envinyanta is attested, though it is translated "healed" rather than *"renewed".)  RENEWER Envinyatar -MR:405, LotR:897
  REPEAT tatya- (double); REPEATED vórima (changed from vorima) (continual), vórëa (enduring, continuous) -TATA, BOR, VT45:7
  REPETITION - continuous repetition: vorongandelë ("vorogandele" in the published Etymologies is a misreading; see VT45:7) (harping on one tune) -LIN1
  REPOSE Estë (the name of a Valië; because of this name, estë fell out of use as a general word for "repose"). -WJ:403, 404
  RESONANCE OF THE VOCAL CHORDS óma (voice) -VT39:16
  RESONANT (of strings) tunga (taut, tight) -TUG
  REST serin ("I rest", 1st pers. aorist); REST (noun) sérë (repose, peace), quildë (quiet, hush); Estë (the name of a Valië; because of this name, estë fell out of use as a general word for "rest") (repose); TAKE A REST hauta-; RESTING senda (at peace) -SED, EZDÊ/WJ:404, GL:23, KHAW
  RESTRAIN avalerya- (bind, make fast, deprive of liberty) -VT41:5, 6
  RETURN (vb) pel- (revolve, go round), RETURN (noun) entulessë -PEL, UT:171, 434
  REVERED The element #ar- in Arfanyarassë (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered)" -WJ:416
  REVERSED nuquerna -LotR:1157
  REVOLVE pel- (return, go round) -PEL
  RICH alya (prosperous, abundant, blessed), lárëa (also = fat, and probably the best word for "rich" in the strictly material sense), autë (also as noun: prosperity, wealth), herenya (wealthy, fortunate, blessed). RICHES lar (fat) -GALA/VT42:32, VT45:26, LT2:335, KHER, VT45:26
  RIDER roquen (horseman, knight) -WJ:372, UT:282
  RIGHT téra (straight), vanima (fair, proper, beautiful). RIGHT (direction) forya, fortë (Note: the latter word also means "north"); RIGHTHANDED formaitë (dexterous) -TE3, LT1:272, PHOR
  RIME ringwë (frost) -LT1:255
  RING #corma (isolated from cormacolindor "Ring-bearers"); RING-DAY Cormarë (Yavannië 30th, a festival in honour of Frodo Baggins; this was his birthday); RING-WRAITHS Úlairi (Nazgûl) (pl; sg #Úlairë? Note that Úlairi is not a literal translation of "ring-wraiths"; the prefix ú- may mean "un-" with evil connotation; the rest of the word is obscure. Lairë "summer" or "poem" can hardly have anything to do with #lairi. The syllable úl- may also have something to do with the Black Speech word gûl, wraith.) -LotR:989 cf. Letters:308, LotR.1146, Silm:362, 417
  RINGING SOUND láma (echo - so in Etym, but see SOUND) -LAM
  RISE orta- (pa.t. ortanë is attested; orta- obsoletes oro- in LT1:256) (lift up, raise); RISING (noun) órë (Note: a homophone means "heart, inner mind"; but cf. MIGHTY-RISING); SUNRISE anarórë (LT1:264 has orontë, oronto, but these words may not be valid in LotR-style Quenya). -ORO, LT1:256, Nam/RGEO:67
  RIVER sírë (stream). (LT1:248/262 also gives nen, while LT1:260 gives celusindi; LT1:265 gives sindi; these may not be valid words in LotR-style Quenya). RIVULET siril; MOUTH OF RIVER etsir -SIR, ET
  ROAD tëa (straight line) (note: not to be confused with the verb tëa- "indicate"), ROAD IN SEA londë (entrance to harbour, translated "haven" in Alqualondë Haven of the Swans, UT:417; the additional gloss "fairway" turned up in VT45:28), tië (path, course, direction, way), #vanda (isolated form Qualvanda "Road of Death" in LT1:264; cf. vand- "way, path" on the same page) -TEÑ, LOD/VT45:28, TE3/RGEO:67, LT1:264
  ROARING rávëa; ROARING NOISE rávë -MC:223 cf. 215
  ROBE vaima -LT1:271
  ROCKHEWN HALL hróta (dwelling underground, artificial cave) -PM:365
  ROOF (vb) tópa-; ROOF (noun) tópa; HAVING A ROOF telda; "DOWN-ROOF" (cover) untúpa- -TOP, LT2:348, RGEO:67/Nam
  ROOM sambë (Þ) (chamber) -STAB
  ROOT, ROOTWORD sundo (pl #sundar in Tarmasundar "Roots of the Pillar" in UT:166, but this may be a different word) (base), talma (foundation, base), sulca (esp. edible root) -SUD, TAL, SÚLUK
  ROUND corna (globed), corima; ISOLATED ROUND HILL tolmen (boss of shield), GO ROUND pel- (return, revolve) -KOR, LT1:257, 269, PEL
  ROW téma (series, line) (pl témar is attested) -TEÑ, LotR:1153
  ROYAL #arna (isolated from Arnanor, Arnanórë, "royal land", Arnor); ROYALIST arandil (king's friend) -Letters:428, 386   
  RUDDY aira (red, copper-coloured), roina -GAY, ROY
  RUINOUS atalantëa (pl. atalantië is attested) -MC:222, 223
  RULE (vb) heru- (Note: heru is also the noun "lord"). LT1:273 has vard- "rule, govern", but this is hardly a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. RULE (noun) sanyë (Þ) (law), axan (commandment, law, as proceeding primarily from Eru; pl. axani is attested.) -LT1:272, STAN, WJ:399/VT39:30
  RULER cáno, cánu (see COMMANDER) (governor, chieftain, commander), #tur (as in Minyatur, "first Ruler") (lord) -UT:400, 466
  RUN ON, RUN SMOOTHLY nornoro- -LT1:263
  RUNE certa (pl certar is attested. This word only occurred in Exilic Quenya, adopted and adapted from Sindarin certh. Tolkien notes that if inherited, the form would have had the form *cirtë.) -WJ:396, LotR:1151
  RUSHING (adjectival) rimpa (flying), arauca (swift); RUSHING (noun) ormë (wrath, violence, haste) -KHOR, LT2:347, GOR     
  RUSTLE escë (noise of leaves) -EZGE

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  SAFE varna (protected, secure). (GL:58 has moina "safe, secure", but in Tolkien's later Quenya moina means "dear, familiar", and the former moina now appears as muina "hidden, secret".) SAFE KEEPING mando (custody) -BAR, MR:350
  SAGA nyárë, nyarna (tale, history) -NAR2
  SAGACIOUS finwa -LT1:253
  SAIL #cir- (only attested as a continuative stem: círa). LT1:273 has wili- "sail, float, fly", but see FLY. -MC:221
  SAILOR ciryaquen (shipman) -WJ:372
  SAKALTHÔR Falassion -UT:223
  SALVE lipsa -LIB2
  SANCTUARY yána (holy place) -YAN
  SAND litsë -LIT
  SARUMAN Curumo (= Sindarin Curunír) -UT:393, 401, 427
  SATURN Lumbar -WJ:xi/Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55
  SAURON (The Abhorred) Sauron (Þ), other names Súro, Sauro (all Þ) -THUS
  SAVE, see DELIVER
  SAY quet- (pa.t. quentë) (speak, talk), equë (the latter word "has no tense forms...being mostly used only before either a proper name...or a full independent pronoun, in the senses say / says or said. A quotation then follows, either direct, or less usually indirect after a 'that'-construction (...) Affixes appear in equen 'said I', eques 'said he / she' ." (WJ:392, 415) Cf. also SAY NO váquet- (forbid, refuse) (1st pers. sg aorist and past váquetin, váquenten are given), ava- (refuse) (pa.t. avanë is given; this verb was "little used in ordinary language"). NOT TO BE SAID, THAT MUST NOT BE SAID avaquétima. SAYING eques (pl. equessi) (dictum, proverbial dictum, quotation) -Silm:436, WJ:370, LT2:348, WJ:392
  SCHOLAR istyar (learned man) -IS
  SCOOP OUT calpa- (draw out, bale out) -KALPA
  SCORN yaiwë (mocking) -YAY
  SCREEN (vb) telta- (canopy, overshadow), SCREEN FROM LIGHT halya- (veil, conceal) -SKAL, TEL
  SEA ëar, airë (in Etym said to apply to "inner seas of Middle-earth", but Tolkien later used these words of the ocean). LT2:347 also gives Rása "the Sea". SEA-DWELLING Eämbar (name of a ship), SEA-SPIRIT falmar/falmarin (pl. falmarindi) (nymph), SEA-ELF Teler (Telellië, Telelli "Teler-folk", adj Telerin "Telerian"), SEAWEED ëaruilë (also simply uilë, see PLANT), CHILD OF THE SEA oar (merchild), SEAWARD PRECIPICE ollo (cliff). (The alternative form oldó may be archaic Quenya.) -AYAR/Letters:386/RGEO:73, UT:430, LT2:347, TELES, LT1:263, LT1:252
  SECOND #tatya (cf. Tatyar, "the Seconds", the Second Clan of the Elves), neuna; THE SECOND Atani (sg Atan - an Elvish name of Men, later only used of Men of the Three Houses of the Edain.) -WJ:420, NDEW, WJ:403
  SECRET (adj) muina (hidden), nulla, nulda, lomba; SECRET (noun) fólë (secrecy); SECRECY muilë, fólë (secret), SECRETIVE fólima -MUY, DUL, LT1:255, LT2:340
  SECURE varna (protected, safe), SECURITY varnassë. (GL:58 has moina "safe, secure", but in Tolkien's later Quenya moina means "dear, familiar", and the former moina seems to have been altered to muina "hidden, secret".) -BAR
  SEDGE liscë (reed) -LT2:335  
  SEE cen- (behold) (future tense cenuva is attested), véla-; SEE! ela (lo! look!) (directing sight to an actually visible object) -MC:222, Arct, WJ:362 cf. 360
  SEED erdë (germ. Note: a homophone means "person".) -ERÉD
  SEIZE mapa- (grasp) This word was struck out in one of Tolkien's earlier word-lists, but in Etym it was restored. -MAP, LT2:339      
  SELF-NAME #cilmessë (only pl. cilmessi is attested, said to mean more literally "names of personal choice": #cilmë "choice" + essi "names". PM:339 explains that "some among the exiles gave themselves names, as disguises or in reference to their own deeds and personal history: such names were called kilmessi 'self-names'.")
  SEMI-VOWEL - the term #mussë tengwë "soft element" (only attested in the pl.: mussë tengwi) covers vowels, semi-vowels (y, w) and continuants (l, r, m, n). -VT39:17
  SEND menta- (cause to go [in a desired direction]), SENDING (noun) menta (message); THOUGHT-SENDING sanwe-menta (mental message) -VT41:5
  SEND FLYING horta- (speed, urge) -KHOR
  SEND FOR tulta- (fetch, summon) -TUL
  SENTENCE quentelë -LT2:348
  SEPTEMBER Yavannië -LotR:1144/1146/Silm:439
  SERIES téma (pl. témar is attested) (row, line) -TEÑ, LotR:1153  
  SERPENT lócë (snake, dragon; "so do the Eldar name the worms of Melko[r]", LT2:85). The word foalócë is said to be a "name of a serpent that guarded a treasure". The word is not capitalized, so this "name" must be a common noun and not a proper name. -LOK, LT2:340
  SERVANT núro (in the Etymologies as published in LR, the gloss is misread as "sunset"; see VT45:38), also -(n)dur (final element in compounds, e.g. arandur "king's servant, minister, steward". When the first part of the compound ends in l, n, or r, the n of -ndur is left out). -NDÛ, Letters:386
  SET panya- (fix), SET (of Sun or Moon) núta- (sink, stoop), SET FREE lerya- (release, let go), SET UP tulca- (fix, establish. Note: there is a homophone meaning "firm, steadfast, strong, immoveable".) SET ASIDE #sat- (appropriate to a special purpose or owner). The verb #sat- is cited in the form "sati-", evidently including the connecting vowel of the aorist, as in *satin "I set aside". SET VIGOROUSLY OUT TO DO horya- (be compelled to do, have an impulse) -PAN, NDÛ, VT41:5, 6; LT1:270 cf. TULUK, VT42:20, VT45:22
  SETTLED - be settled: mar- (abide, be fixed) SETTLED CHARACTER indómë ("also used of the 'will' of Eru [God]"). For "character" = letter, see LETTER. -UT:317, VT43:16
  SEVEN otso -OT
  SHADE lëo (= shadow cast by an object), laimë, lómin (shadow); SHADES OF NIGHT lómë (Night, night-time, dusk, gloom, twilight), SHADY halda (veiled, hidden, shadowed), laira -DAY, LT1:255, DO3
  SHADOW lëo ( =shadow cast by an object) (shade), also laimë (shadow "cast by an object or form", VT45:8), lómin (shade), lumbulë (=[heavy] shadow), fuinë, huinë (= deep shadow) (gloom, darkness - according to VT41:8, fuinë is actually a Telerin form, the proper Quenya form being huinë), ungo (=dark shadow) (cloud), mordo (obscurity, stain, smear, dimness), lumbë (gloom). "The Shadow" meaning Sauron should probably be Huinë, as this word is associated with his coming to Númenor in LR:47 and SD:246/310. SHADOWED halda (veiled, hidden, shady). -DAY/VT45:8, LT1:255, Nam/RGEO:67, PHUY, UÑG, MOR/VT45:35, LUM, SKAL
  SHAGGY aulë (May have been obsoleted by the later [TLT] word aulë "invention".) -LT1:249
  SHAKE (quick) rincë (flourish) -RIK
  SHAPE (vb) canta-, venië (gerund? Stem #ven-?) (cut); SHAPE (noun) venwë (cut), SHAPED canta (also as quasi-suffix, e.g. lassecanta "leaf-shaped"); SHAPED STONE ambal (flag) -KAT, LT1:254, MBAL
  SHARE hyanda (blade) -LT2:342
  SHARP maica (piercing), aica (fell, terrible, dire; this gloss "sharp" is isolated from one translation of Aicanáro:) SHARP-FLAME Aicanáro "Fell Fire, Aegnor" (so in Silm:435; MR:323 has Aicanár) In the printed Etymologies, a word for "keen, sharp, acute" is given as "laike" in the entry LAIK, but not only is this a misreading for "laika" (VT45:25): the conceptual validity of this word may be questioned because laika, laica is the word for "green" in later sources. -Silm:434, AYAK, MR:323, LAIK
  SHARP-PROWED SHIP cirya (see SHIP) -Silm:433 (where the spelling círya occurs, but all other sources have cirya with a short i, so círya is likely an error by Christopher Tolkien).
  SHATTERED rúcina (confused, disordered) -MC:223
  SHE – see HE.
  SHEATH vainë -LT1:271
  SHEEN, THE Isil (Moon) -THIL
  SHEEP máma (Unlike English "sheep", this word probably has a distinct plural *mámar.) -WJ:395
  SHELL hyalma (conch, horn of Ulmo) -SYAL
  SHEPHERD mavor (GL:58 gives mavar); SHEPHERDESS emerwen. The word mámandil, etymologically "sheep-friend" (máma "sheep" + -ndil "friend"), may perhaps also be used for "shepherd".  -LT1:268, UT:434, UT:209
  SHIELD turma, umbas (Þ); BOSS OF SHIELD tolmen (isolated round hill)  -TURÚM, VT45:33, LT1:269
  SHIFT (of large and heavy things:) rúma- (part. rúmala is attested) (heave, move) -MC:223, 222
  SHINE cala- (fut. caluva is attested), calta-; SHINE WHITE sil- (present tense síla, aorist sg. silë, aorist pl. silir, and freq. sisíla- are attested), ninquita-; SHINING WHITE (adj) silma (silver) -LT1:254, UT:22 cf. 51, KAL, MC:223, NIK-W, SIL/LotR:94/The Return of the Shadow:324
  SHINGLE sarnië (pebble-bank) -UT:463  
  SHIP cirya (defined as "sharp-prowed ship" in Silm:433; dual ciriat [read *ciryat?] is attested in Letters:427; all numbers and cases except plural possessive *ciryaiva are attested in the Plotz letter. In Silm:433, the spelling círya occurs, but all other sources have cirya with a short i, so círya is likely an error by Christopher Tolkien); luntë (boat); SHIPMAN ciryaquen (sailor) -KIR, LT1:249/LUT, WJ:318
  SHORE falas (falass-), falassë (beach, line of surf, "especially one [i.e. a shore] exposed to great waves and breakers", VT42:15); hyapat; SHORE-PIPER, SHORELAND PIPER Solosimpë (pl Solosimpi is attested) -LT1:253, VT42:15, Silm:431, SKYAP, LT1:251, 265
  SHORT sinta (Þ); SHORT STABBING SWORD ecet (broad-bladed sword) -STINTÂ, UT:284
  SHOULDER róma (Note: a homophone means "horn" or "trumpet-sound, loud sound") See also BACK. -LT2:335
  SHOUT (vb) rama-; SHOUT (noun) rambë, SHOUT yello (call, cry of triumph), SHOUTER ramandor (but in LotR-style Quenya this would probably be a pl; sg *ramando) -LT1:259, GYEL, VT45:16
  SHOW tana- (indicate) (Note: tana also means "that".) -MR:385
  SICKLE circa; SICKLE OF THE VALAR Valacirca (= the Great Bear, the Plough, the Big Dipper or the Wain), also called Otselen = The Seven Stars. -KIRIK, OT
  SICK(LY) laiwa (ill), caimassëa (bedridden), engwa (cf. Engwar "The Sickly", an Elvish name for Men); SICKNESS quámë, lívë (maybe better cited as *hlívë), caila (or possibly only adj. lying in bed, bedridden; see caila in the Quenya-English wordlist for further discussion), caimassë (etymologically "[state of being] in bed") -SLIW, KAY/VT45:19, GENG-WÂ, Silm:122, KWAM
 SIGH see EXPIRE. Cf. also one of Nienna's titles: Núri, she who sighs. -LT1:263 cf. 66.
 SIGN tanna, taina; tengwë (indication, token, writing; tengwë is also used for what we should call a phoneme - pl tengwi is attested), tehta (mark [in writing], diacritic) (In LotR:1155, this word is applied to the supralinear vowel-signs of Fëanorian writing, and pl tehtar is attested.) SYSTEM OR CODE OF SIGNS tengwesta (grammar). For various linguistic terms, see FULL SIGN, LACKING/INADEQUATE SIGN, STRIPPED/DEPRIVED SIGN. -MR:385, WJ:394, 395, TEK
  SIGNIFER Tancol ("the significant Star", probably = Venus).
  SILVER telpë, telep- (tyelpë, tyelep- was the original form of the word in Noldorin Quenya, but "the form telpe became usual, through the influence of Telerin; for the Teleri prized silver above gold, and their skill as silversmiths was esteemed even by the Noldor" [UT:266]. However, in Letters:426 it is stated that "the form tyelpë remained in Quenya" and was not wholly displaced by telpë. LT1:268 has telpë = telempë.) Cf. also ilsa (a "mystic name" of silver), †silmë (also meaning light of Silpion, starlight). SILVER (prob. adj) tinda (glinting), OF SILVER telepsa, telpina, telemna. SILVER LIGHT istel, istil ("applied by the Ilkorins to starlight, probably a Q[uenya] form learned from Melian"). SILVER GLINT nillë (a star on Varda's simulacrum covering Valinor. Spelt ñillë, i.e., ngillë, in MR:388, but initial ng had become n in Third Age pronunciation, and I follow the system of LotR and transcribe it accordingly. But is this word is written in Tengwar, the letter noldo, not númen, should be used to transcribe the initial n.) -Silm:429, KYELEP, LT1:255, SIL, TIN, MR:388
 SIN (noun) #úcarë (isolated from úcaremmar "our sins/trespasses"; SIN (verb) #úcar- = "to sin, trespass" (pl. aorist úcarer, úcarir attested); SINNER #úcarindo (variant #ulcarindo, possibly an ephemeral form abandoned by Tolkien, which may also be true of the forms #naicando, #naico. All the words for "sinner" are attested with the pl. ending -r attached.) -VT43:19, 21, 22, 33
 SINEW tuo (muscle) -TUG
 SING lirin ("I sing", 1st pers. aorist) (chant); SINGER nyello, lindo (singing bird); SINGERS Lindar (a name of the Teleri); SINGING lindë (air, tune, song), SINGING CLUSTER Lindeloktë (labernum). This is the form given in LT1:258; Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya. Read *Lindelohtë in LotR-style Quenya?  -GLIR, NYEL, LIN2, WJ:418, Silm:431, LT1:258
 SINGLE erya (sole), SINGLY eressë (only, alone, also as noun: solitude) -ERE, LT1:269
 SINGULARITY erdë (used in the sense "person as a whole", body and soul. Note: a homophone means "seed, germ".) -MR:216
 SINK (of Sun and Moon) núta- (set) -NDÛ
 SIP salpa- (lick up, sup) -SÁLAP
 SIRIUS Niellúnë, Nierninwa -LT1:262 
 SISTER seler (Þ) (pl. selli), onómë, onónë; SISTER (usually not of bloodkinship) osellë (Þ) (associate) -THEL, NÔ 
 SIT har- (in CO attested in the plural continuative tense: hárar "are sitting". According to VT45:20, Tolkien derived har- "sit" from a root KHAD; if so, the past tense of har- should probably be *handë rather than *harnë. In Etym, the root KHAD was rejected and replaced by KHAM-, and the new Quenya verb for "sit" thus came to be ham-. However, since har- reappears in such a late text as CO, Tolkien may have decided to reinstate KHAD and its derivatives; writers may then treat both har- and ham- as valid verbs "to sit".) -KHAM, UT:317, VT45:20
 SIX enquë -ÉNEK
 SKIES fanyarë (upper airs and clouds) -MC:223
 SKILL curu; SKILLED maitë (pl. maisi) (handy), BE SKILLED IN DEALING WITH hanya- (understand, know about); SKILLFUL [?DEVICE - Tolkien's handwriting was illegible] curo (curu-)  -Silm:429, MA3, KHAN, VT41:10
 SKIN helma (fell) (parma in LT2:346 is obsolete; see BARK) -SKEL
 SKY vilya (older [MET] wilya) (air), hellë, ilwë (heavens), telimbo (canopy), taimë, taimië. (LT2:348 gives ilu, but the meaning of this word was later changed - Tolkien decided that Ilúvatar means "All-Father", not "Sky-Father" as he originally thought.) "SKY-BRIDGE" (i.e., rainbow) helyanwë -LotR:1157, 3EL, LT1:255, LT2:348, LT1:268
 SLACKEN lehta-, lenca- (loose) (In the printed Etymologies, the n of lenca- was misread as u; see VT45:27.) -LEK
 SLASH cirissë (gash) -KIRIS
 SLAVE mól (thrall) -MÔ, VT43:31
 SLAY mac- -LT1:259 (but in a much later source reproduced in VT39.11, this verb is translated "hews with a sword" instead; see under SLAYER below for a possible verb "to slay" in more LotR-compatible Quenya)
 SLAYER #nehtar, isolated from Morinehtar "Darkness-slayer" (PM:384, 385), name of a wizard (istar). The noun #nehtar "slayer" may seem to presuppose a verbal stem #nehta- "to slay, kill".
 SLEEP (noun) fúmë. (This word points to *fum- as the stem of the verb "to sleep".)  FLOWER OF SLEEP - see POPPY. -LT1:253
 SLENDER nindë, teren, terenë -NIN-DI, TER
 SLIDE DOWN talta- (slip, collapse) -MC:223
 SLIP talta- (slide down, collapse) -MC:223
 SLOPE (vb) talta-; SLOPE (noun) pendë (downslope, declivity), ampendë (upward slope), SLOPING DOWN penda (inclined) -PEN
 SLOW lenca -LT2:341
 SLUMBER (vb) lor-, muru-, SLUMBER (noun) lórë, murmë, SLUMBROUS lorda (drowsy), murmëa -LT1:259, LOS, LT1:259, 260
*SMALL pitya (never translated, but Pitya-naucor is glossed "petty-dwarves", and pica "small spot" must be derived from the same root.) Cf. also nauca, an adjective "especially applied to things that though in themselves full-grown were smaller or shorter than their kind, and were hard, twisted, or ill-shapen." LT1:256 has an adjective inya "small", but this is probably not a valid word in LotR-style Quenya (in which language *inya may mean "my, mine".) -PIK, WJ:389, 413
 SMALL STONE sar (pl. sardi) -SAR
 SMEAR mordo (shadow, obscurity, stain, dimness) -VT45:35, MOR
 SMEARED púrëa (discoloured) -MC:223
 SMILING raina (gracious, sweet-faced). NOTE: A homophone means "nettled, enlaced". -VT44:35
 SMITH tano (craftsman), SMITH OF THE WORLD Talca Marwa (a title of Aulë) -TAN, LT1:266
 SMOOTH pasta -PATH
 SMOULDERING HEAT yulmë (red [?heat] - Tolkien's handwriting was illegible); SMOULDERING WOOD yúla (ember) -YUL
 SNAKE ango (pl. angwi), leuca, lócë (serpent, dragon; "so do the Eldar name the worms of Melko[r]", LT2:85) -ANGWA, LotR:1149, LT2:340
 SNARE (noun) remma, neuma; SNARE (verb) #rem- (cited as "remi-", evidently including the connecting vowel of the aorist, as in *remin "I snare") -VT42:12, SNEW
 SNARL yarra (growl) -MC:223
 SNOUT mundo (nose, cape) -MBUD
 SNOW lossë (spesifically "fallen snow", also adjective "snow-white"; †olos, †olossë. Etym also gives niquë, but this word is obsoleted by a statement in WJ:417: "nique does not refer to snow, but to cold". This statement may obsolete niquetil "snowcap" in LT1:266. Is niquis "snow" from the same source a valid word? GL:35 has fáwë "snow" and fauta "it snows".) LIGHT SNOW is, SNOW-WHITE lossë (which may also be the noun "snow"), SNOWDROP nieninquë (lit. "white tear") -RGEO:69, GOLÓS, NIK-W-, NEI, LT1:256, LT1:262/266
 SO may generally be rendered by sië "thus" (q.v. for reference). MAY IT BE SO, see AMEN.
 SOAP lipsa -LIB1
 SOFT mussë, milya (gentle, weak) (Note: milya- is also a verb "long for"), maxa (pliant), moica -VT39:17, VT45:34, MASAG, GL:58
 SOIL 1. (noun) cemen (earth), 2. (vb) vahta- (stain), SOILED vára (dirty) -LT1:257, WA3 
 SOLE erya (single), SOLITUDE eressë (also as adverb: single, only, alone) -ERE cf. LT1:269
 SOLE OF FOOT tallúnë (the form talas in LT2 is probably obsolete) -RUN, LT2:347
 SOLEMN PROMISE vanda (oath, pledge) -UT:317
 SOLITARY erda (deserted) -LT1:269
 SOLITUDE eressë (also as adverb: singly, only, alone) -ERE, LT1:269
 SOMBRE morna (black, gloomy, dark) -MOR
 SON yondo (male descendant), also short form yón (Yón referring to Jesus as "the Son" in the source); dative i yondon "to the Son" in VT43:36-37. Cf. also the suffix -ion, e.g. Finwion "son of Finwë". Vocative yonya *"my son", a contraction of *yondonya. (The forms vô, vondo "son" in LT2 are certainly obsolete, as are the notions there recorded that yondo meant "(great) grandson" and that yô-, yond- "son" was used only in poetry. But LT2 does confirm that -ion was "very common...in patronymics".) SON OF THE DARK (= Morgoth) morion -YO, VT44:12, 17, VT43:36-37, MR:217, LR:61, LT2:336, 344, LT1:260 cf. FS
 SONG lindë (air, tune, singing), #lírë (only attested in the instrumental case: lírinen), lirilla (lay). See also MUSIC. -GLIN, Nam, LT1:258
 SOON rato -Arct             
 SOPE lipsa -LIB
 SORROW nyérë (grief). Pl. perhaps *nyérer not *nyéri; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste" pl. tyáver. -GL:60 
 SOUL fëa (spirit; pl fëar is attested. In MR:330, Tolkien notes that fëa is "roughly but not exactly equivalent to...'soul'.") -MR:349, 218, cf. Silm:431
 SOUND (verb, "to sound") lamya-; SOUND (noun) lamma (= sound in general?), #hlon (only pl. hloni is attested; the word is used of the sounds of a language), róma (= loud sound, trumpet-sound. Note: róma also means "shoulder"), láma (according to Etym = "ringing sound, echo", but see below); SOUND-TASTE lámatyávë (pl. lámatyáver is attested), i.e., "individual pleasure in the sounds and forms of words". Tolkien seems undecided about the exact meaning of láma. Etym gives "ringing sound, echo"; in WJ:416 it is said that the stem LAMA refers "especially to vocal sounds, but was applied only to those that were confused or inarticulate. It was generally used to describe the various cries of beasts." But the word lámatyávë "sound-taste", by which an Elf chose or made a name for him/herself [see NAME-CHOOSING], seems to imply that láma can also be used of artuculated speech. -LAM, WJ:394, ROM, MR:215, 216
 SOUP sulpa -LT1:266
 SOUTH hyarmen (LT2:248 also gives Sahóra, but this is hardly a valid word in Tolkien's later Quenya); SOUTHERN hyarmenya, "SOUTH-VICTOR" Hyarmendacil (one of the Kings of Gondor), SOUTHEASTLANDS Hyarrostar, SOUTHWESTLANDS Hyarnustar (regions in Númenor) -KHYAR/LotR:1157, LotR:1075/1082, UT:165, 446
 SOW rerin ("I sow", 1st person aorist), pa.t. rendë -RED
 SPARK - make/cause to spark: tinta- (kindle). SPARK (noun) tinwë (sparkle). -TIN, Silm:438
 SPARKLE (vb) tintina- (pl. tintinar is attested), MAKE TO SPARKLE tinta- (kindle);  SPARKLE, SPARK (noun) tinwë (often = "star") -TIN, Silm:438
 SPEAK quet- (pa.t. quentë) (say, talk) -LT2:348
 SPEAR ehtë. (The gloss of the word ecco has also been quoted as "spear", but this is a misreading; see SPINE.) SPEAR-HEAD nehtë (gore, wedge, narrow promontory. Note: a homophone means "honeycomb"), nasta (gore, point, triangle), SPEARMAN ehtyar -EK/EKTE, SNAS, UT:282
 SPECIES nostalë (kind) -LT1:272
 SPEED (vb) horta- (urge, send flying), SPEEDING hortalë (urging) -KHOR
 SPELLING tencelë (writing system) -TEK
 SPIDER liantë (so in Etym; in LT1:271, liantë is glossed "tendril"); SPIDER FILAMENT lia (Note: lia- is also the verb "twine"); SPIDER'S WEB ungwë (but in LT1:271, ungwë is glossed "spider") -SLIG, LotR:1157
 SPIKE nassë (thorn), tinda; ROW OF SPIKES (or teeth) carcassë, carcaras -NAS, LT1:258, LT2:344
 SPINDRIFT wingë (wingi-) (crest [of wave], foam) -LT1:273 cf. WIG
 SPINE ecco (In the Etymologies as printed in LR, entry EK/EKTE, this word and its "Noldorin"/Sindarin cognate ech are glossed "spear", but according to VT45:12, this is a misreading of Tolkien's manuscript.)
 SPIRANT CONSONANT surya -SUS
 SPIRIT fëa (= the spirit or "soul" of an incarnate, normally housed in a body; pl fëar is attested), ëala ("being"; pl. eälar is attested. Eälar are spirits whose natural state it is to exist without a physical body, e.g. Balrogs), súlë (Þ) (earlier [MET] thúlë, Þúlë) (maybe a more "impersonal" word for spirit), manu (= departed spirit; LT1:260 has mánë), fairë (= spirit in general, as opposed to matter, or a phantom or disembodied spirit, when seen as a pale shape. Pl. fairi is attested), vilissë (a "Qenya" word maybe not valid in LotR-style Quenya). A person's "spirit" meaning his or her general personality and attitude may be rendered by the word órë, in LotR defined as "heart, inner mind" (q.v.), cf. PM:337, where it is said that "there dwelt in her [Galadriel] the noble and generous spirit (órë) of the Vanyar". FIELD-SPIRIT Nermi (pl. Nermir is attested. The Nermir are "fays of the meads".)  HOLY SPIRIT airefëa (other version: fairë aista; both versions are attested with the dative ending -n attached). SPIRIT-IMPULSE fëafelmë (impulses originating with the spirit, e.g. love, pity, anger, hate). -MR:349, 218, 165; cf. Silm:431; LotR:1157, MAN, MC:223, MR:349, GL:23, LT1:260, VT43:36-37, VT44:17, VT41:19 cf. 13
 SPIT (noun? verb? both?) piuta -PIW
 SPLIT (noun) sanca (Þ) (cleft) -STAK
 SPONGE hwan (hwand-, as in pl. hwandi) (fungus) -SWAD
 SPORT tyalië (game, play) -TYAL
 SPOT men (place - Tolkien may have rejected this word, see PLACE), SMALL SPOT pica (dot) -MEN, PIK
  SPRAY (of fall or fountain) rossë (fine rain, dew) -Letters:282 cf. ROS
  SPREAD palu-, palya- (open wide, extend, expand) -PAL
  SPRING (vb) tuia- (sprout); SPRING (noun; but for the season, see SPRING-TIME below) ehtelë (fountain, issue of water), SPRING OF WATER capalinda, WATER FALLING OUT SWIFTLY FROM A ROCKY SPRING celussë (freshlet); SPRING, SPRING-TIME tuilë (this word literally means "budding, also collectively - buds, new shoots, fresh green" [LT1:269]. Also used = dayspring, early morn. In the Calendar of Imladris, tuilë was a precisely defined period of 54 days, but the word was also used without any exact definition. Besides tuilë, LT1:269 also has tuiliérë.) FIRST BEGINNING OF SPRING coirë ("stirring", according to the Calendar of Imladris a period of 54 days in early spring); "SPRING-SINGER" (i.e., swallow) tuilindo -TUY/LotR 1141, 1145, KEL, UT:426, LT1:260, Silm:429, LT2:338/LT1:269, VT39:7
  SPROUT (vb) tuia (spring), *lohta- (emended from the actual reading lokta because Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) (put forth leaves or flowers); SPROUT (noun) tuima (bud) -TUY, LT:258
  SQUAT haca- -GL:47
  STABBING SWORD (short) ecet (broad-bladed sword) -UT:284/432
  STAFF - LT1:264 has vandl, but the cluster ndl cannot occur in LotR-style Quenya. Read *vandil?
  STAIN (vb) vahta-, STAIN (noun) mordo (shadow, obscurity, smear, dimness), vaxë. -WA3, MOR/VT45:35
  STAND ASIDE! heca! (be gone!). Also with pronominal affixes: sg hecat, pl hecal "you stand aside!" -WJ:364     
  STANDARD tulwë (pole) -LT1:270
  STAR elen (normal pl eleni, but occasionally †eldi in verse; allative elenna and pl ablative elenillor are attested), †él (pl. éli is mentioned), tinwë (properly = sparkle), ílë. (Note: in Etym elen is said to be poetic, but Tolkien later concluded that elen was "the normal word for a star on the actual firmanent", the poetic word being él instead. According to MR:388, a tinwë was one of the "apparent stars" on Varda's simulacrum covering Valinor, also called nillë or "silver glint". Etym mentions the words ellen and elena without glossing them, but according to Silm:431 elena is an adjective meaning "of the stars".) TWINKLING STAR tingilya, tingilindë, HAVING MANY STARS lintitinwë; STARLIKE elvëa (pl. elvië is attested); STARWARDS elenna (Elenna or Elennanórë, "the land named Starwards", a name of Númenor); STARLIGHT silmë (light of Silpion); STARCROWNED, CROWNED WITH STARS (a name of Taniquetil) Elerrína (so in Silm:42; Etym has Elerína); STAR-QUEEN (=Varda) Elentári; STARLIT DUSK, STARRY TWILIGHT tindómë; FLASHING OR [?STARRY] LIGHT élë See also *STELLAR. -EL, Silm:313, MC:222 cf. 215, TIN, WJ:362, UT:317, LotR:1157, LT1:269, MC:223, Silm:42, DOMO, Silm:438, VT45:12
  STATE indo (perhaps especially a state of mind, since indo is translated "heart, mood" in the Etymologies, stem ID) -VT39:23
  STATUTE namna -MR:258
  STEADFAST tulca (firm, strong, immoveable; Note: there is a homophone meaning "fix, set up, establish"), vórima, voronda ("steadfast in allegiance, in keeping oath or promise, faithful"). -TULUK cf. LT1:270, UT:317
  STEADY tulunca (firm) -LT1:270
  STEEL erë, eren (meaning either iron or steel), yaisa -LT1:252, GL:37
  STEEP aiqua, oronta -AYAK, LT1:256
 *STELLAR elenya (no gloss is actually given; the word is simply defined as "an adjective referring to stars". There are also the adjectives elda and elena, translated "of the stars". But in normal Quenya, elda primarily means "Elf", pl. Eldar. Use elenya or elena.) -WJ:362, Silm:431
  STEM telco (leg) -LotR:1154
  STEWARD arandur (king's servant, minister) -Letters:386, UT:313
  STICK TO himya- (cleave to, abide by, adhere), STICKING himba (adhering) -KHIM, VT45:22
  STIFF norna (tough), tarya; STIFF, DRY GRASS sara (Þ) (bent) -WJ:413, TÁRAG, STAR
  STILL (= *"yet, despite that", not in the sense "unmoving":) er (only, one, alone, but, still) -LT1:269
  STING nasta- (prick) -NAS    
  STINK yolo- -GL:41
  STIRRING coirë (according to the Calendar of Imladris a period of 54 days in early spring) 
-LotR:1141, 1142                   
  STONE ondo (defined as stone "as a material" in Etym, but used of natural rocks in MC:222: ondolissë mornë, *"upon dark rocks". LT1 and LT2 has simply on, ondo "stone, a stone"), sar (sard-) (= small stone); OF STONE sarna. STONE SONG Ondolindë (Gondolin). See also ELFSTONE, FLINTSTONE. -GONOD (see GOND), Silm:431, LT1:254/LT2:342, SAR, Silm:415
  STOOP núta- (sink, set [of Sun and Moon]) -LT1:263 cf. NDÛ
  STOP hauta- (take a rest, cease), pusta- (put a stop to, but also intr: cease), tápë (3 pers sg pres; pa.t. tampë is given) (block), STOP SHORT nuhta- (stunt, prevent from coming to completion, not allow to continue). FULL STOP ("in punctuation" - in Fëanorian writing probably the symbol :) putta, pusta; STOPPED CONSONANT (i.e., plosive consonant?) punta; STOPPER tampa -KHAW, PUS, TAP, WJ:413
  STORM raumo (glossed "[noise of a] storm" in MC:223)
  STORY quenta (narrative, history) -KWET/VT39:16
  STRAIGHT téra (right), lenwa (long, thin, narrow); STRAIGHT LINE tëa (road) (note: not to be confused with the verb tëa- "indicate") -TE3, TEÑ, LT2:341
  STRANGER ettelëa (reading uncertain; ettelëa seems to be primarily an adjective "foreign", though perhaps it can also be used as a noun "foreign (one)" = "stranger") -VT45:13
  STRAP latta (Note: a homophone means "hole, pit") -LATH
  STRAY ranya-; STRAYING (noun) ránë (wandering) (pl. probably *ráner not ráni; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste" pl tyáver.) -RAN
  STREAM (vb) celu- ("streem out swiftly"; there is also a noun celu "stream"), STREAM (noun) celumë (flow, flowing, flood, tide), celu, sírë (river); STREAM IN THE WIND hlapu- (fly in the wind; part. hlápula is attested) -UT:446, LT1:265, MC:223, 222/LT1:257
  STRECH lenu-; STRETCH OUT *rahta- (reach) (Emended from the actual reading rakta; Tolkien later decided that kt became ht in Quenya) -LT1:341, 335
  STREET mallë -MBAL, LT1:263
  STRENGTH (physical) tuo -TUG
  STRENGTHENING antoryamë (used of various manipulations of a stem, such as lengthening vowels or consonants or turning a consonant or a vowel into a "blend" [see BLEND]) -VT:39:9
  STRETCHED taina (elongated, lengthened, extended) -VT39:7 cf. TAY
  STRIDER Telcontar -MR:897
  STRIPPED #racina (only pl. racinë is attested) (deprived). STRIPPED SIGN #racina tengwë (only pl. racinë tengwi is attested). Also translated "deprived sign", this was in early Elvish analysis of Quenya the term for a consonant with no following vowel; the vowel was held to have disappeared or been omitted. -VT39:16
  STRIPPED BARE helda (naked) -SKEL
  STROKE ("of pen of brush [´] when not used as long mark") tecco -TEK
  STRONG tulca (firm, immoveable, steadfast. Note: there is a homophone meaning "fix, set up, establish"), STRONG (physically) polda (burley), STRONG PLACE sarnë -TULUK, POL, SAR
  STUDY (long) nólë (wisdom, lore, knowledge). (In Etym this word is spelt with initial ñ, that is, ng. Initial ng had become n in Third Age Quenya, and I follow the system of LotR and transcribe it accordingly. Nólë is so spelt also in Silm:432. But if this word is written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not númen.) -ÑGOL, Silm:432
  STUNT nuhta- (prevent from coming to completion, stop short, not allow to continue" -WJ:413
  STUNTED nauca -VT39:7
  SUBLIME, THE Varda (this word should probably not be used as a normal adjective. It is also translated "the Lofty".) -WJ:402
  SUCCESSOR neuro (follower) -NDEW
  SUFFICE farya- (pa.t. farnë) (Note: #farnë also means "dwelling"); SUFFICIENCY fárë (plenitude, all that is wanted), SUFFICIENT farëa (enough) -PHAR
  SUFFOCATE quoro- (choke) -LT1:264
  SUIT camta- (sic; the cluster mt seems unusual for Quenya, and while the source does not explicitly say that this word is Quenya, it is difficult to understand what other language could be intended) (to [make] fit, accomosate, adapt) -VT44:14
  SUMMER lairë (Note: a homophone means "poem". In the Calendar of Imladris, lairë was a precisely defined period of 72 days, but the word was also used without any exact definition), saiwen (cf. saiwa "hot".) "EVER-SUMMER" oiolairë, "SUMMER-SNOW-WHITE" lairelossë (evergreen trees brought to Númenor by the Eldar) -LotR:1141, 1145/VT45:26, Letters:282, LT1:265, UT:167, 458, UT:167, 449
  SUMMIT (of a mountain) ingor (PM:340). LT1:256 gives ormë "crest, summit", but in Tolkien's later Quenya ormë means "wrath, haste, violence, rushing".
  SUMMON tulta- (send for, fetch), naham- (passive participle nahamna "summoned" given), yal- (dative infinitive #yalien is attested in enyalien "for the re-calling"). Noun (A) SUMMONS nahámë. -TUL, VT45:21, UT:317
  SUN Anar, Úrin (Úrind-) (the latter was a "name of the Sun"; in LT1:271 úrin is glossed "blazing hot", and the word for "Sun" is Úr ["Ûr"] or Úri, Úrinci, Urwen.The stem Úrin is derived from was struck out in Etym. However, several words that must be derived from the same stem occur in LotR, indicating that Tolkien restored it.) Naira ("the heart of flame"), Calavénë, Calaventë (other names for the Sun). Yet another term was Ancalë or "Radiant One", but it is unclear whether or not Tolkien rejected this form (see LR:362 s.v. KAL). SUNLIGHT árë (older [MET] ázë); SUNRISE anarórë, ambaron/Ambarónë (uprising, Orient) (a similar but untranslated word, Ambaróna, occurs in LotR), rómen (glossed "uprising, sunrise, east" in Silm:437, but the normal meaning of the word is always "east"). SUNSET andúnë (west, evening). (Amuntë in LT2 is certainly obsolete in LotR-style Quenya.) RAY OF THE SUN firin (this may not be a valid word in LotR-style Quenya; in a later source, firin is the adjective "dead"). -ANÁR, UR, LotR:1157, LotR:254, ORO, AM, LotR:490, NDU, MR:198, Silm:428, LT2:335, 341
  SUP salpa- (so in Etym; "take a sup of" in LT1:266) (sip, lick up) -SÁLAP, LT1:266
  SUPPORT (noun) tulco (prop) -TULUK
  SUPPOSE intya-; SUPPOSITION intya (guess, idea) -INK
  SUPREME The Supreme Aratar (pl; sg #Arata). The Aratar are the mightiest of the Valar: Manwë, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna, Aulë, Mandos, Nienna, and Oromë. Aratar is also rendered "High Ones, Exalted Ones" -Silm 32/381, WJ:402 
  SURE tanca (firm, fixed) -TAK
  SURF solor, solossë (surge). LINE OF SURF falassë (beach, shore) -SOL, LT1:266, Silm:431
  SURFACE palúrë (bosom, bosom of Earth - Tolkien equated palúrë with the Old English word folde), palmë -PAL
  SURGE (noun) solossë (surf) -LT1:266
  SWALLOW tuilindo (lit. "spring-singer"). -TUY/LIN2/LT1:269/LT2:338
  SWAN alqua; HAVEN OF THE SWANS Alqualondë -ÁLAK/Silm:427/LT1:249, VT42:7, LT2:335 (LT1:249 also has alquë), UT:417 
  SWARD palis (lawn) -LT1:264
  SWART varnë (varni-) (brown, dark brown) The form varni- is evidently used in compounds. -BARÁN
  SWEET lissë. Other sources use lissë as a noun "sweetness", and lissë is also used for the "grace" of God (specifically Erulissë or *"God-sweetness"). Another word glossed "sweet" is melda, but since it is also defined as "beloved" and "dear", this adjective may describe a "sweet" person rather than sweet taste. -Nam, RGEO:66, VT43:29, VT45:34 cf. MEL
  SWEET-FACED raina (smiling, gracious). NOTE: A homophone means "nettled, enlaced". -VT44:35
  SWELL tiuya- (grow fat) -TIW
  SWIFT #linta (only pl lintë is attested), tyelca (agile, hasty), larca, alarca (rapid), arauca (rushing) -Nam, KYELEK, LAK2, LT2:347
  SWIRL hwinya- (eddy, gyrate) -SWIN
  SWORD macil; BROAD SWORD lango (also = prow of a ship), LARGE SWORD falquan; SHORT STABBING SWORD, BROAD-BLADED SWORD ecet, SWORD BLADE maica (also blade of any cutting tool or weapon, but esp. sword-blade), †russë (corruscation), SWORDSMAN macar. -MAK/LT1:259/VT39:11/VT45:32, LAG, LT2:341, UT:284/432, VT39:11, RUS, VT39:11
  SWORN BROTHER otorno (associate) -TOR
  SYRUP pirya- (juice) -PIS
 
  <T>
  TALE nyárë (saga, history), nyarna (saga) -NAR2
   TALK (verb) quet- (pa.t. quentë) (say, speak). TALK (noun) quetil (language, tongue) -LT2:348, VT45:25 cf. KWET
  TALL halla, tunda (Note: the latter has a homophone meaning "kindle"), tára (high) -LotR:1157, TUN, WJ:417
  TANGLE fasta- -PHAS
  TAP tamin ("I tap", 1st pers. aorist) (pa.t. tamnë) -TAM
  TAPER lícuma (candle) -MC:223
  TARN moilë -LT2:349
  TASSEL fas, fatsë -GL:34
  TASTE (vb) #tyav- (cited in source as tyavin "I taste", 1st pers. aorist); TASTE (noun) tyávë (pl. tyáver is attested in the compound lámatyáver "sound-tastes"; see SOUND-TASTE.) -KYAB, MR:215
  TAUT tunga (tight, [of strings:] resonant) -TUG
  TEAR nírë, nië -NEI, LT1:262
  TELEPATHY see THOUGHT
  TELL #nyar- (cited as nyarin "I tell", 1st pers. aorist) (relate); NOT TO BE TOLD OR RELATED avanyárima -NAR2, WJ:370
  TEMPLE corda -LT1:257
  TEMPTATION #úsahtië (inducement to do wrong). Earlier variants, possibly abandoned by Tolkien: #terfantië, #terpellië, #insangarë (all attested in the allative: úsahtienna, terfantienna etc.) -VT43:23, 22
  TEN cainen -KAYAN, KAYAR   
  TENDRIL liantë (but in Etym, this word is glossed "spider", q.v.) -LT1:271
  TERRIBLE rúcima, aica (fell, dire, sharp); VERY TERRIBLE CREATURE rauco -WJ:415, PM:347, VT39:10
  TERRIFY ruhta- -WJ:415
  TERROR ossë (Ossë is also the name of a Maia held to be responsible for storms at sea.) -GOS, Silm:33, 34
  THANKSGIVING #hantalë (isolated from Eruhantalë "thanksgiving to Eru". A verbal stem #hanta- "thank" can also be isolated.) -UT:436 
  THAT (1) (demonstrative): tana (in one version of Quenya also tanya, as in tanya wendë "that maiden", MC:215-16), also yana (the former). 
  THAT (2) (or IT) as a pronoun was ta in one version of Quenya, but Tolkien later decided that ta is rather a plural pronoun, "they/them" with reference to non-persons (VT43:29). 
  THAT (3) (relative pronoun): "who, which, that" as a relative pronoun is i or ya: i Eru i or ilyë mahalmar ëa "the One who is [or, that is] above all thrones", i carir quettar ómainen "those who [or, those that] form words with voices". A relative pronoun ya *"which" is found in the "Arctic" sentence; yassen "in which" in Nam is evidently this pronoun + a plural locative ending. -TA, YA, WJ:391, UT:305, 317, Arct
  THAT (4) (conjunction, as in "I know that you are here") ne (PE14:54; this is "Qenya", but no certain later source is available for this important word)
  THATCH tupsë -TUP
  THE i In Quenya, the definite article is generally used as in English. However, notice that it is not used before plural words denoting an entire people or race, such as Valar, Quendi, Noldor, Sindar, Eldar, Ainur, Fírimar etc. This is evident from examples like lambë Eldaron "the language of the Eldar [lit. simply "Eldar"]", Valar valuvar "the will of the Valar [lit. simply "Valar"] will be done". Cf. Tolkien's use of "Men" with no article, meaning the entire human race or humans in general, while "the Men" would be a group of individuals. Anar "the Sun" and Isil "the Moon" are probably treated like proper names in Quenya; they do not take the article. When a noun is determined by a following genitive, it is evidently optional whether it takes the article or not: mannar Valion "into the hands [lit. simply "hands"] of the Lords", Indis i Ciryamo "The Mariner's Wife, *The Wife [lit. simply "Wife"] of the Mariner" - but contrast I Equessi Rúmilo "the Sayings of Rúmil", i arani Eldaron "the Kings of the Eldar". If the genitive precedes the noun, the article must probably be left out in all cases, as in English (*Eldaron arani, ?Eldaron i arani). Note: i is also the relative pronoun "who, that"; see WHO. -I, WJ:404, 368, FS, UT:8,  WJ:398, 369     
  THEE le (formal, perhaps the object form of elyë "thou", q.v. Le is known as a borrowing in Sindarin; see the notes on the poem A Elbereth Gilthoniel in RGEO; also, ólë in VT43:29 probably means *"with thee"). Another pronoun translated "thee" is tye (familiar or intimate). -LotR:61, VT43:29
  THEIR - if analogy can be trusted, "their" is the ending *-nta, e.g. *aldanta "their tree". See THEY.
  THEM te (independent pronoun, according to VT43:20 used of persons only, the corresponding pronoun denoting non-persons being ta); -t (pronominal ending, e.g. laituvalmet, "WE [-lme-] will praise THEM [-t]") -LotR:989 cf. Letters:308, VT43:20
  THEN san -MC:216
  THERE, LOOK! en (yonder) -EN
  THEY -ntë (pronominal ending): Tiruvantes i hárar mahalmassen mí Númen "they will keep it who sit upon thrones in the West". The independent, emphatic form may be *entë.) Object "them" (and non-emphatic "they") is the independent pronoun te, that may also be expressed by the pronominal ending -t (as in laita te...laituvalmet, "bless them...we shall bless [or praise] them"). According to VT43:20, the pronoun te is used of persons only, "they/them" with reference to non-persons being ta instead. The shorter object ending -t may show no such distinction. The ending -ntë refers to persons in our attested example; whether another ending would be used for non-persons is not known. For "they", early material also has the ending -lto as in tulielto "they have come" (LT1:270), but the status of this ending in Tolkien's later, LotR-compatible forms of Quenya is uncertain. -UT:317, LotR:989 cf Letters:308, VT43:20
  THICK tiuca (fat) -TIW
  THIGH tiuco -TIW
  THIN - long and thin: lenwa (straight, narrow) -LT2:341
  THING nat, engwë; THING MADE tanwë (device, construction, craft) -NÂ2, VT39:7, TAN
  THINGOL Singollo, short for Sindacollo (so in Silm:421; MR:217 and WJ:410 have Sindicollo, where the s represents original th, cf. PM:337, where the spelling Þindikollo is used [Þ = th as in thin]. Hence, these variant forms should be spelt with in initial súlë, not silmë, in Tengwar writing). However, it appears that Thingol was usually called Elwë in Quenya. -MR:385
  THIRD #nelya (cf. Nelyar "Thirds", the third clan among the Elves) -WJ:420
  THIRSTY soica, fauca (open-mouthed, parched) -PHAU, VT39:11
  THIS sina (following its noun in our one attested example: vanda sina, "this oath"). Possibly this sina is an adjectival word always connecting with a noun, the independent word for "this" rather being sin, according to one interpretation of a sentence occurring in PM:401: Sin Quentë Quendingoldo, *This Pengolodh Said" (not translated by Tolkien). THIS DAY (or, "today") síra (other variants, possibly rejected by Tolkien: siar, siarë, hyárë [archaic hyázë]); THIS HOUR sillumë; IN THIS PLACE sinomë [variant sínomë] -UT:305, VT43:18, VT44:35, LotR:1003/VT44:36
  THITHER tar (this word may mean literally "to it" and therefore presuppose ta as the word for "it, that"; if so, tar may have become obsolete when Tolkien decided that ta was to be a plural pronoun "they/them" instead; see IT). THITHER LANDS (as seen from Valinor) Entar, Entarda (Outer Lands, Middle-earth, East) -TA, EN
  THORN nassë (spike) -NAS
  THORONDOR Sorontar -Silm:438
  THOU elyë (independent pronoun, used for emphasis, therefore translated "even thou" in Nam and RGEO:67. Such independent pronouns may also be used in copula-less constructions, e.g. aistana elyë "blessed [art] thou", VT43:30). -lyë (pronominal ending; the normal way of expressing non-emphatic "thou": hiruvalyë "thou shalt find"). This "thou" is formal. Concerning familiar or intimate "thou", that would often be translated "you" in English, only the object tye "thee" [q.v.] and the short suffix -t is attested; the latter may be used on imperatives, e.g. hecat "get thee gone!") -Nam/RGEO:67/VT43:30, WJ:364
  THOUGHT sanwë; COMMUNICATION OF THOUGHT, INTERCHANGE OF THOUGHT (= telepathy) ósanwë; THOUGHT-OPENING sanwë-latya (direct, telepathic thought-transfer); THOUGHT-SENDING sanwe-menta (mental message) -VT39:23, 30, MR:415, VT41:5
  THRALL mól -MÔ
  THREAD (fine) lia (spider filament. Note: lia- is also the verb "twine".) -SLIG
  THREE neldë (obsoleting olë in LT1:258) -NEL
  THRESHOLD fenda -PHEN                                
  THROAT lanco (This was changed by Tolkien from lango, pl. langwi [the latter form is erroneously marked with an asterisk in the printed Etymologies, but langwi is transparently the plural and not an ancestral form, and Tolkien's own manuscript had no asterisk: see VT45:26]. The plural form indicates that lango had the stem-form langu-. If the replacement form lanco is to behave similarly, it should have the stem *lancu- and the plural form *lanqui.) -LAK1, LANK
  THRONE mahalma (loc. pl. mahalmassen is attested) -UT:317
  THRONG sanga (crowd, press); THRONG-CLEAVER Sangahyando (personal name, the "throng" being a closely formed body of enemy soldiers) -STAG, LT2:342, LotR:1085 cf. Letters:425
  THROUGH terë, ter; "THROUGH-ABIDE" (i.e., stand [fast]) #termar- (only fut. termaruva is attested) -TER, UT:305, 317, VT44:35
  THY -lya, *-tya (endings used on nouns, e.g. *aldalya, *aldatya "thy tree". The ending *-tya is not attested and is deduced from the pronoun "thee" [q.v.].) The semantic distinction between -lya and *-tya is that -lya is formal or polite, while *-tya is intimate or familiar. Cf. THEE. In UT:51 (cf. 22), -lya is translated "your" instead of "thy", following modern English usage (tielyanna "upon your path").
  TIE #nut- (cited in source as nutin "I tie", 1st person aorist) -NUT
  TIGHT tunga (taut, [of strings:] resonant) -TUG
  TILL an (for, to) -Arct
  TILTED talta- (sloping, leaning) -TALÁT
  TIME lúmë (translated "hour" in LotR:94; allative lúmenna is attested. Note: lúmë also means "darkness"); lú (= "a time, occasion"). FIXED TIME asar (Vanyarin athar) (festival); pl. asari is attested. ONCE UPON A TIME  yassë, yalúmessë, yáressë (Note: the first of these seems to clash with *yassë "in/on which".) -LU, WJ:399/VT39:31, YA
  TIMID caurëa -LT1:257
  TIN latúcen; OF TIN latucenda -LT1:268
  TINDER tusturë -LT1:270
  TINFANG Timpando -LT1:268
  TINY titta (little) -TIT       
  TISSUE lannë (cloth) -LAN
  TITLE see NICKNAME.
  TO, TOWARDS ana, na, an (for, till); (prefix:) ana-. English "to, towards, -wards" will often be rendered by the allative ending -nna, pl -nnar, as in Elenna "Starwards" (Elen + [n]na) -NÂ, Plotz letter, UT:432, Silm:313
  TODAY (or, "this day") síra (other variants, possibly rejected by Tolkien: siar, siarë, hyárë [archaic hyázë]) -VT43:18
  TOGETHER o- (prefix) -WÔ
  TOIL móta- (labour) -MÔ
  TOKEN tengwë (indication, sign, writing - pl tengwi is attested) -WJ:394, 395 cf. TEK   
  TOMB #noirë (isolated from Noirinan, "Valley of the Tombs") -UT:166
 -TON (reduced form of "town" in names) -mas (-by) -LT1:251  
  TONGUE (physical tongue:) lamba, (language:) lambë, quetil (the latter also = "talk" or "language"). (In LT2:339, it is said that lambë covers both "physical tongue" and "speech", but Tolkien later thought better of that. WJ:394 states that in non-technical use, lambë was the normal word for "language"; only the Loremasters used the technical term tengwesta instead.) LOREMASTER OF TONGUES #Lambengolmo (only pl Lambengolmor is attested) -LAB/LotR:1157/WJ:394, 396, KWET/VT45:25
  TOO (= excessively, as in "too big") acca -PE13:108
  TOOTH nelet (pl nelci), carca (fang, tusk); ROW OF TEETH carcanë (LT2 has carcassë, carcaras "row of spikes or teeth".) -NÉL-EK, KARAK/LT2:344
  TOPMOST PINNACLE see FINISH.
  TORMENT (vb) nwalya-. (Though spelt this way also in Etym, nwalya- must be from older *ngwalya, for the stem is ÑGWAL. In Tengwar spelling, the letter nwalmë (< older ngwalmë) should be used to transcribe the initial nw of nwalya.) TORMENT (noun) nwalmë (older [MET] ngwalmë), angaitya -LotR:1157 cf. ÑGWAL; LT1:249 
  TORTURE ungwalë; ("Qenya" also:) malcanë, valcanë -ÑGWAL, LT1:250
  TOUCH appa- ("to touch" in a literal sense), #ap- (given as aorist stem apë) figurative "to touch (one)" = "concern, affect". TOUCHING pa, pá (as regards, concerning) -VT44:26
  TOUGH norna (stiff), tarya (stiff) -WJ:413, TÁRAG
  TOWARDS ana, na, an (for); (prefix:) ana- (to) -NÂ
  TOWER mindon (also translated "Lofty Tower"; allative pl mindonnar or mindoninnar is attested) (turret), mindo (=isolated tower), tirion (= watchtower; also defined as "a mighty tower, a city on a hill), tirin (= tall tower; Note: a homophone means "I watch") See also TOWN WITH WALLS AND TOWERS. -LT2:346/MC:222, MINI, LT1:258, TIR
  TOWN osto (= town with wall) (city), opelë (walled village/house), irin; TOWN WITH WALLS AND TOWERS tirios, TOWNSHIP ostar  -OS, PEL(ES), LT1:258, LT2:343, 336
  TRADE (vb) manca-, TRADESMAN macar -MBAKH 
  TRAILING sóra (long) -LT2:344
  TRANSPARENCE liquis, TRANSPARENCY - the word vírin is defined as "a magic glassy substance of great lucency used in fashoning the Moon. Used of things of great and pure transparency." -LT1:262, LT2:339  
  TRAVEL lelya- (pa.t. lendë) (go, proceed) -WJ:363
  TREASURE harma, harwë (both words also used of a single treasured thing), foa, mírë (jewel, precious thing); TREASURY harwë (also used = treasure). -3AR/LotR:1157, LT2:340, MIR
  TREE alda (gen.pl. aldaron is attested), ornë (= high, isolated tree), taulë (= great tree). HAVING TREES, TREE-GROWN aldarwa, TREE-SHADOWED aldëa, AVENUE OF TREES aldëon; LORD OF TREES Aldaron (a name of Oromë)  -GALAD/Nam/LotR:1147/1157/VT39:7, OR-NI/LotR:488 cf. Letters:308, LT1:267, LT1:249, Silm:32, 378 
  TRESPASS (noun) #úcarë (isolated from úcaremmar "our sins/trespasses"; verb úcar- "to sin, trespass" (pl. aorist úcarer, úcarir attested). The noun #úcarë was the word used in Tolkien's final version of the Quenya Lord's Prayer; a draft version has #rohta (pl. rohtar) = "trespass" or "debt". Compare TRESPASSERS #rohtalië or #ruhtalië (i.e. "trespass-people", incorporating lië "people"?) from the same source. For other words for "trespasser" or "debtor", see DEBTOR. -VT43:19, 21
  TRESS findë (lock of hair) (probably obsoleting findil in LT2) -SPIN, LT2:341
  TRIANGLE neltil (pl neltildi), nasta (spear-head, point, gore) -TIL, SNAS
  TRIBE hostar -LT2:340
  TRINITY Neldië -VT44:17
  TRIUMPH - CRY OF TRIUMPH yello (call, shout) -GYEL, VT45:16
  TROOP hossë (army, band) -LT2:340
  TROTH vérë (bond, compact, oath) (Pl. probably *vérer not *véri; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste", pl tyáver.) -WED
  TRUE anwa (real, actual), sanda (firm, abiding). For "true" = "faithful", see FAITHFUL. -ANA, STAN
  TRUMP hyóla -SD:419
  TRUMPET romba (horn), tumbë; TRUMPET-SOUND róma (loud sound) (Note: róma means "shoulder" in one of Tolkien's early "Qenya" lexicons.) -WJ:400/ROM, LT1:269
  TRUST estel (hope) -MR:320
  T-SERIES tincotéma (dental series) -LotR:1154
  TUBE róta -LT2:347
  TÚN (Old English) see FENCED FIELD -PEL(ES)
  TUNE lindë (air, song, singing); HARPING ON ONE TUNE vorongandelë ("vorogandele" in the published Etymologies is a misreading; see VT45:7) (continuous repetition) -LIN2 
  TUNNEL rotto (small grot) -PM:365
  TURGON Turucáno (so in PM:345, obsoleting Turondo in LT1:115)
  TURRET mindon (tower) -LT1:260
  TUSK carca (tooth, fang) -Silm:429, LT2:344  
  TWANG tingë, tango. LT1:256 has quingi- "twang, of strings, harp". In Etym, there is also the unglossed verb tanga-  = *"make a twang"??? -TING, TANG 
  TWELVE yunquë ("q"), also (or in another conceptual phase?) #rasta (only the stem RÁSAT is given in the Etymologies, but cf. yurasta "24", i.e. 2 x 12, in PE14:17). TWELVE HOURS ("day" when not meaning 24 hours) arya (day) -PE14:82, RÁSAT, AR1
    TWENTY-FOUR yurasta -PE14:17
  TWILIGHT tindómë (usually of the time near dawn, glossed "starry twilight" in Silm:438), undómë (= evening twilight), yúcalë, yualë, lómë (night, dusk, gloom, darkness. Cf. Lómion "Child of the Twilight".) -LotR 1145, KAL, LT1:255, Silm:160
  TWIN onóna (also = adj "twinborn", the primary meaning of the word), pl. ónoni (surprisingly, a dual form is not used) -WJ:367
  TWINE lia- (Note: lia is also a noun meaning "fine thread, spider's filament) -LT1:271
  TWINKLE #tintila- (only pl tintilar is attested) -Nam, RGEO:67 
  TWINKLING STAR tingilya, tingilindë -TIN
  TWIST #ric- (only the perfect irícië "has twisted" is attested) (VT39:9)
  TWISTED nauca (hard, ill-shapen, *small - see SMALL.) -WJ:413
  TWITCH rihta- (jerk, give quick twist or move) -RIK(H) 
  TWO atta -AT(AT)/Letters:427

  <U>
  UDÛN Utumno -Silm:438
  UGH horro, orro (alas! ow!) ("exclamation of horror, pain, disgust") -VT45:17
  UGLY úvanima (not fair). See also WITHOUT BEAUTY.-VT39:14
  ULTIMATE métima (final, last) -MC:222 cf. 215
  UN- (prefix denying presence or possession of thing or quality) ú- (no-, not, un-, in-) (according to LR:396 s.v. UGU, this prefix usually has a "bad sense", cf. vanimor "fair folk" vs. úvanimor "monsters"), il- (denoting "the opposite, the reversal, i.e., more than the mere negation"), also pretonic prefix la- "un-, not-". -VT39:14, UGU, UMU, LT1:255, VT45:25
 *UNCOUNTABLE únótima (pl. únótimë is attested). Translated "numberless"; the interlinear translation in RGEO:66 has "not-count-able", while VT39:14 offers the translation "countless". -Nam
  UNCOUNTED unotë, unotëa (read *únotë, *únotëa?) (not counted) -VT39:14
  UNDER undu, nu (so in Nam; Etym has no); UNDERNEATH nún (down below) -UNU, NÛ
  UNDERSTAND hanya- (know about, be skilled in dealing with); UNDERSTANDING (noun) handë (knowledge); UNDERSTANDING (adjectival) handa (intelligent) -KHAN
  UNFURL panta- (spread out, open) -PAT
  UNIVERSE ilu, ilúvë (the whole, the all, Allness). The term ilu used of the universe includes God and all souls and spirits, that are not properly included in the term Eä. -ILU (see IL), VT39:20
  UNWILL avanir (VT39:23)
  UNPRONOUNCEABLE úquétima (impossible to say/put into words, unspeakable) -WJ:370
  UNSPEAKABLE úquétima (impossible to say/put into words, unpronounceable) -WJ:370
  UNTIL, UNTO tenna (also in shortened form tenn' before a word in a-) -LotR:1003, VT44:35-36
  UNWISE alasaila -VT41:13, 18
  UP, UPWARDS amba, ama (prefix:) am-. (The form amu in LT2:335 is prob. obsolete.) 
UPWARD SLOPE amban; UPHILL (adj) ambapenda, ampenda  - AM2, UNU
  UPON - this English preposition may be rendered by the allative case, endings -nna pl. -nnar, dual -nta. Cf. falmalinnar "upon foaming waves", tielyanna "upon your path". -Nam, UT:22 cf. 51
  UPPER AIRS AND CLOUDS fanyarë (skies) -MC:223
  UPRISING ambaron, Ambarónë (sunrise, Orient) (a similar but untranslated word, Ambaróna, occurs in LotR:490). Rómen is glossed "uprising, sunrise, east" in Silm:437, but the normal meaning of the word is always "east". Cf. also: "UPRISING-FLOWER" *ambalotsë ("referring to the flower or floreate device used as a crest fixed to [the] point of a tall [illegible word, possibly 'archaic'] helmet", "pointed helm-crest". Tolkien asterisked the word because it was not attested, only a possible Quenya form of the name Amloth) -AM2, LotR:490, WJ:318
  URANUS Luinil (or less probably Nénar; it is not known for certain which of the two is Uranus and which is Neptune) -Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55 
  URGE horta- (speed, send flying); URGING (noun, not adjectival participle) hortalë (speeding), URGENCY hormë -KHOR
  US me (attested with a dual ending: met "us two" in an exclusive sense, "he/she and me", evidently connecting with the ending -mmë, see WE). It is uncertain what inclusive "us" (i.e. "you and me") might be. Evidently me is the same as subject and object, so that it could also be translated "we" as a short independent pronoun, and it can also receive case endings, e.g. locative messë "on us", allative mello "from us", dative men "for us". The forms atarmë, metermë "for us" also seem to include me, but these forms were evidently ephemeral ("for us" is better rendered as men, itself an attested form). -Nam/RGEO:67, VT43:15, 19, VT44:18
  USEFUL mára (fit, good) -MA3

  <V>
  VAGUE néca (faint, dim to see) -MC:223
  VALE (dark) tumbë (deep valley); DEEP VALE imbë (dale) (Note: imbë is also the preposition "between") -LT:269, VT45:18
 *VALIAN valarinwa, attested in Lambë Valarinwa "the language of the Valar, *Valian Language". Cf. also valaina "of the Valar, belonging to the Valar" (divine) -WJ:395, BAL
  VALLEY nan (nand-), tumbo (deep valley under/among hills, dark vale; so in Etym, Silm:438 and LT1:269. Letters:308 gives tumba "deep valley".) VALLEY (adj.) nalda; "VALLEY OF SINGING GOLD" Laurelindorinan (Lórien). -TUB, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308, LT1:261, UT:449
  VALOUR cánë -KAN
  VANISHED vanwa (gone, departed, dead, lost, past and over) -WAN, Nam, WJ:366
  VAST - LT2 gives aica "broad, vast", but aica is said to mean "sharp" in later writings. -LT2:338
  VEIL (vb) halya- (conceal, screen from light), fanta- (to cloak, mantle). "VEILS, RAYMENT" fana (pl fanar is attested. This word was used of the visible bodies in which the Valar presented themselves to incarnates.) VEILED halda (hidden, shadowed, shady) -SKAL, VT43:22, RGEO:74
  VENUS Eärendil (Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55), Tancol ("Signifer", "the significant star" - MR:385)
  VERDIGRIS lairus (lairust-) -VT41:10
  VESSEL venë (small boat, dish) -LT1:254
  VESTMENT colla (cloak) -MR:385
  VICTORY túrë (mastery), apairë -TUR, GL:17
  VIGIL tiris (watch) -LT1:258
  VIGOUR tuo (muscle, sinew, strength), vië (manhood), vëassë, laito/laisi (new life, youth); VIGOROUS vëa (adult, manly); SET VIGOROUSLY OUT TO DO horya- (be compelled to do, have an impulse) -TUG, LT1:267, WEG, VT45:22
  VILLAGE masto, (walled village:) opelë (town) -LT1:251, PEL(ES)
  VINE liantassë -LT1:271
  VIOLENCE ormë (rushing, wrath, haste); VIOLENT naraca (harsh, rending) (possibly "of sounds", but Tolkien's extra comment is partially illegible) -GOR, KHOR, NÁRAK, VT45:37
  VIOLET helin, Helinyetillë ("Eyes of heartsease") (pansy) -LT1:262
  VIRGIN, see MAID, MAIDEN
  *VIRGINAL (or, *MAIDENLY) *vénëa (only attested in elided form vénë') -VT44:10
  VIRGINITY vénë (with the alternative, older [MET] form wénë), venessë -WEN
  VOCALIC EXTENSION ómataina (i.e., the addition to the base of a final vowel identical to the base vowel [sundóma]) -WJ:417
  VOICE óma (pl instrumental ómainen "with voices" is attested. In some words, óma is translated "vowel", q.v.) VOICELESS ómalóra -OM, WJ:391, VT39:16 (the latter source defines óma as "voice, resonance of the vocal chords"), VT45:28
  VOID lusta (empty), cúma (the Void) -LUS, KUM
  VOWEL #ómëa (only pl. ómëar attested), also #óma-tengwë, #ómatengwë (this term refers to vowels considered as independent phonemes, according to Fëanor's new insights on phonemics; only pl. ómatengwi is attested), óman (pl. "amandi", probably misreading for *omandi; this term from the Etymologies may in any case be obsoleted by the above-mentioned forms), #lehta tengwë (lit. "free/relased element"; only pl. lehta tengwi is attested; we would rather expect *lehtë tengwi). (Note: In some compounds, óma seems to mean "vowel" instead of "voice": VOWEL SIGN #ómatehta (only pl ómatehtar is attested), DETERMINANT VOWEL sundóma, VOCALIC EXTENSION ómataina (q.v. for definition). Yet another term for "vowel", #penna pl. pennar, is given in VT39:16, but this is taken from a draft and not included in the final text Tolkien wrote. - The term #mussë tengwë "soft element" (only attested in the pl.: mussë tengwi) covers vowels, semi-vowels (y, w) and continuants (l, r, m, n). -VT39:8/16, OM, WJ:396, 319, 417, VT39:17

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  WAIF hecil (gender-spesific forms are hecilo m. and hecilë f.) (one lost or forsaken by friends, outcast, outlaw) -WJ:365
  WAILING (noun) yaimë; WAILING (adj) yaimëa -MC:223
  WAIN lunca (VT43:19); as for the constellation (aka the Great Bear), see SICKLE OF THE VALAR   
  WAKENING (adj) cuivëa (awakening) -KUY
  WALK (vb) vanta-; WALK (noun) vanta -BAT
  WALL ramba; WALL AND MOAT ossa; TOWN WITH WALLS AND TOWERS tirios -RAMBÂ/Silm:436, LT1:258, LT2:336
 *WANDER ranya- (only glossed stray under RAN, but cf. Silm:436: "ran- 'wander, stray'" and the following word:) WANDERING (noun) ránë (straying) (pl. probably *ráner not ráni; cf. the similar formation tyávë "taste" pl tyáver.) WANDERER Rána (a name of the Moon), #ran (isolated from Palarran "far-wanderer", the name of a ship) -RAN, Silm:436, UT:460, 461
  WANT #mer- (cited in the form merë, evidently the 3rd person aorist; pa.t. given as mernë) (wish, desire) -MER
  WAR ohta -OKTÂ, KOT
  WARM lauca -LAW
  WARRIOR ohtatyaro, ohtar, #mehtar (isolated from Telumehtar "Orion, warrior of the sky", a word occurring in LotR. Etym gives mahtar "warrior" under MAK, but Telumehtar not **Telumahtar under TEL). LT1:268 also has mordo "warrior, hero", but in Tolkien's later Quenya mordo means "obscurity, shadow, stain, smear, dimness". -KYAR (see KAR), UT:458, LotR:1146, MAK, TEL
  WARWICKSHIRE Alalminórë (Land of Elms) -LT1:249
  WATCH (vb) #tir- (cited in source as tirin "I watch", 1st pers. aorist), pa.t. tirnë; fut. tiruva is attested (heed), WATCH-TOWER tirion; WATCH (noun) (vigil) -TIR, MC:222 cf. 215, LT1:258, LT1:268
  WATER nén (nen-) (LT1:262 also has linquë); WATER-FALL - LT1:249 gives axa, but this is probably obsoleted by axa "narrow path" in Etym; WATERY nenda (wet), WATER-MEAD, WATERED PLAIN nanda; WATER-LOVERS Nendili (used of the Lindar), WATER-VESSEL calpa; DRAW WATER calpa- (scoop out, bale out); ISSUE OF WATER ehtelë (fountain, spring, also cehtelë, see FOUNTAIN),  WATER FALLING OUT SWIFTLY FROM A ROCKY SPRING celussë (freshlet), YELLOW WATER-LILY nénu -NEN, WJ:410, NAD, KALPA, KEL, UT:426, LT1:248 
  WAVE (crested), WAVE-CREST falma (partitive plural allative falmalinnar is attested. LT1:266 has solmë instead of falma.) -PHAL, VT42:15, Nam/RGEO:67
  WAX líco (evidently with stem lícu-), neitë -MC:223, GL:60
  WAY tië (path, course, line, direction, road), #vanda (isolated form Qualvanda "Road of Death" in LT1:264; cf. vand- "way, path" on the same page) -TE3/RGEO:67, LT1:264
  WE (see also US) - Quenya has several endings for "we". A distinction is made between inclusive "we", including the person(s) addressed, and exclusive "we", a "we" that does not include the person(s) addressed. There is also a distinction between singular and dual forms, the dual forms referring to a "we" of two persons (the speaker and one other person), while the plural forms refer to a "we" of at least three people. Relevant pronominal endings are -lmë, -lvë/*-lwë, -ngwë and -mmë. However, Tolkien repeatedly revised the precise application of these endings. In one conceptual phase, -mmë was pl. exclusive "we", as in vammë "we won't" (WJ:371), whereas -lmë was pl. inclusive "we". In the mid-sixties, when the revised edition of LotR appeared, Tolkien had apparently changed the system so that -lmë had become exclusive "we" (rather than inclusive as before), and now *-lvë (and/or -lwë, VT42:34) was the ending for pl. inclusive "we". The ending -mmë Tolkien now assigned a "dual" meaning (VT43:6), but it is unclear whether this is meant to be a dual inclusive "we" (i.e. "thou and I") or dual exclusive "we" (i.e. "I and one other person"), or indeed whether the inclusive/exclusive distinction is upheld in the dual pronouns. The ending -ngwë denoted pl. inclusive "we" at one stage (VT43:36), but this apparently became -lmë later. If -mmë is dual exclusive "we", -ngwë may conceivably have been re-assigned the meaning of dual inclusive "we". The emphatic, independent forms of these pronouns would be *elmë, *elvë, emmë, *engwë (emmë occurs in Tolkien's translation of the Hail Mary, VT43:20, but there reflecting the older meaning of -mmë: pl. exclusive "we", not a dual form like it later became). As for the shorter, non-emphatic forms, me is apparently plural exclusive and met dual exclusive "we" (see US for reference); some extrapolate *ve (pl.) and *vet (dual) as the corresponding inclusive forms. -WJ:371, LotR:989, 94, cf. Letters:447, VT42:36, VT43:34
  WEAK milya (soft, gentle) (Note: milya- is also a verb "long for".) -VT45:34
  WEAL, WEALTH alma (good fortune), ausië, autë (prosperity, also adj: rich) WEALTHY herenya (blessed, fortuneate, rich) -GALA, LT2:336, KHER
  WEAR see BEAR. WEAR (OUT) yerya- (get old) (Note: yerya is also the adjective "old, worn") -GYER
  WEARY lumba -VT45:29
  WEATHER - dark weather: lúrë -LT1:259
  WEAVE lanya-; EVER-WEAVING Vairë (name of a Valië) -LAN, VT39:10
  WEB natsë (net); SPIDER'S WEB ungwë -NAT, LotR:1157
  WED vesta-; WEDDING vestalë -BES, WED
  WEDGE nehtë (spearhead, gore, narrow promontory. Note: a homophone means "honeycomb".) -UT:282
  WEEK lemnar (from a root meaning "five", since the Valian week had five days), enquië (from a root meaning "six", since the Eldarin week had six days), otsola (evidently meaning a seven-day week like our own, as otso = "seven") -LEP, LotR:1141 cf. ÉNEK, GL:62
  WEEPING nyényë -LT1:262
  WEFT lanat, wistë -LAN , LT1:254
  WENT lendë (departed) (past tense of lelya-/lenna- "go") LT1:264 gives vá, but this is probably not a valid word in LotR-style Quenya. -LED cf. VT45:27, WJ:363
  WEREWOLF nauro (In Etym, this word is spelt with initial ñ, 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 númen.) -NGAW
  WEST númen (so in Etym and LotR; Númen is capitalized in UT:305. According to VT45:38 the form núme- also occurs in Tolkien's Etym manuscript, and númë is attested in LT1:263 as well), andúnë (sunset, evening); WESTERN númenya; IN THE WEST númëa; WESTLAND see WESTERNESSE; WESTLANDS Andustar (a region in Númenor) "WEST-WINGS" (the name of a ship) Númerrámar -LotR:1157/NDÛ, Nam,  UT:305, Silm:428, LT1:263, UT:165, 419, UT:175, 458
  WESTERNESSE, WESTLAND Númenor (full form Númenórë) -Silm:313, 414
  WET mixa, linquë (obsoleting liquin in LT1:262), nenda (watery) -MISK, NEN, LINKWI
  WHAT, evidently mana as in mana i coimas Eldaron[?] "what is the coimas [lembas] of the Eldar?" (PM:396). See also WHO. Where "what" means "that which", it may be translated by a relative pronoun, as in lá carita i hamil mára "not to do what you judge good" (VT42:33)
  WHEREIN yassen (refering back to a pl word; sg #yassë). See WHICH. -Nam, RGEO:66, 67
  WHICH ya (known from the Arctic sentece and attested with a plural locative ending in Nam: yassen "which-in, wherein". See WHO concerning relative pronouns.) -Nam, RGEO:66
  WHINING miulë (mewing) -MIW
  WHIRLPOOL hwindë -SWIN
  WHISPER (vb) lussa-; WHISPERING SOUND lussë -SLUS (and because this is the basic root here, and Tolkien elsewhere indicated that older initial sl- produces Quenya hl-, it may be that these words should properly be cited as *hlussa-, *hlussë.)
  WHICH (relative pronoun) ya, yá; this relative pronoun may receive case endings, e.g. yassen "in which, wherein" (pl.) in Namárië. -VT43:34
  WHITE ninquë (chill, pallid), fána/fánë (prob. associated with the whiteness of clouds, fanyar), lossë (snow-white). -NIK-W-/GL:60/Silm:435 cf. WJ:417, RGEO:69, MC:221-223
  WHO man (so in Nam and MC:222; MC:221 one place has men, but that is evidently an error, for man occurs in the same text. In FS and LR:59/63, man is translated "what". Either Tolkien later adjusted the meaning of the word, or man covers the meaning of both "who" and "what", but mana is seemingly attested in PM:396 as a distinct word for "what".) Note: this "who" is used only in questions. The relative pronoun "who, which, that" is i or ya: i Eru i or ilyë mahalmar ëa "the One who is above all thrones", i carir quettar ómainen "(those) who form words with voices". A pronoun ya *"which" is found in the "Arctic" sentence; yassen "in which" in Nam is evidently this pronoun + a plural locative ending. From our very few examples it may seem that i is used when the relative pronoun is the subject of the relative clause, while ya is used when it is its object: *i Orco i tirnë Findaráto "the Orc that watched Finrod", *i Orco ya Findaráto tirnë "the Orc that Finrod watched". By another interpretation, i as a relative pronoun is used with reference to animates or sentients (English "who"), while ya is used with reference to things or abstracts (English "which"). Whatever the case, ya presumably becomes *yar in the pl [*i nati yar... "the things that..."], while i is indeclinable. -Nam/MC:222, WJ:391, UT:305, 317, Arct
  WHOEVER aiquen (if anybody) -WJ:372
  WHOLE ilya (all), THE WHOLE ilúvë (the All, Allness, universe) -IL, Silm:433
  WHOLLY aqua (fully, completely, altogether) -WJ:392
  WICKED olca (bad). Compare ulca "evil", q.v. -VT43:23-24
  WIDE palla, landa; FAR AND WIDE palan (or "wide, over a wide space, to a distance", VT45:21); THE WIDE WORLD Palurin -PAL, LAD, Silm:435, LT1:264
  WIELD #tur- (cited in source as turin "I wield", 1st pers. aorist), pa.t. turnë (control, govern). WIELD, esp. WIELD A WEAPON mahta- (fight, handle, manage) -TUR, MAK/VT39:10, MA3
  WIFE vessë (In UT:8, indis is translated "wife", but in Etym this word is glossed "bride".)  -BES, UT:8 cf. NDIS
  WILD verca, #hravan (only pl. hravani is attested; Hravani the "Wild" was used in Exilic Quenya to designate Men not belonging to the three houses of the Edain.) -BERÉK, WJ:219
  WILDERNESS ráva (Note: a homophone means "riverbank") -RAB
  WILL (noun) níra (= "will" as a potential or faculty, while "act of will" is nirmë), *selma (Þ) ("a fixed idea, will". In WJ:319, the word is given as Þelma, but Þ (th) would become s in the Noldorin Quenya. Cf. Þindë, sindë in WJ:384) Other words for "will" turn up in Tolkien's various translations of "thy will be done" in the Lord's Prayer: indómë, replacing #mendë (mendelya "thy will"); according to VT43:16, Tolkien in his notes defined indómë as "settled character, also used of the 'will' of Eru". -VT39:30/VT41:6, 17; WJ:319, VT43:15-16
  WILL NOT - I will not: vá (exclamation, also = Do not!); avan, ván, vanyë "I won't", avammë, vammë "we won't" -WJ:371
  WILLOW-TREE tasar, tasarë (Þ) (probably obsoleting tasarin in LT2:346) -TATHAR/Silm:438
  WIND súrë (Þ?) (instrumental form súrinen is attested), súlimë (Þ) (also the name of the month of March), vaiwa, waiwa (the latter is probably an older [MET] form); NOISE OF WIND sú, WINDY wanwavoitë (pl. wanwavoisi) -MC:222 cf. 215, LT1:266, Nam/RGEO:66, WÂ, LT1:266
  WIND UP telya- (transitive) (conclude, finish) -WJ:411
  WINE miru, limpë (the drink of the Valar, or of the fairies). The word míruvórë, míruvor is defined as "a special wine or cordial.") -LT1:261, LIP, LT1:258, WJ:399
  WING ráma (Pl. rámar and plural instrumental form rámainen are attested. The form #rámë, occurring in the ship-name Eärrámë "Sea-Wing", evidently has a feminine ending.)
HAVING WINGS rámavoitë (pl. prob. *rámavoisi, cf. LEAPING, WINDY), "WEST-WINGS" (the name of a ship) Númerrámar -RAM/LT2:335, MC:222, Silm:295, UT:175, 458
  WINTER hrívë, (in early [TLT] material:) Yelin, Hesin. (In the Calendar of Imladris, hrívë was a precisely defined period of 72 days, but the word was also used without any exact definition.) Lasselanta "leaf-fall" could be used for the beginning of winter, but the usual translation of this word is "autumn". "WINTER ONE" Hescil (a title of Nienna "who breedeth winter", LT1:66, 255) -LotR:1141, 1145; LT1:255, LT1:260
  WISDOM nolwë (secret lore, obsoleting nólemë in LT1:263), nólë (long study, lore, knowledge) (In Etym these words, as well as nóla below, are spelt with initial ñ, that is, ng. Initial ng had become n in Third Age Quenya, and I follow the system of LotR and transcribe it accordingly. Nólë is so spelt also in Silm:432. But if these words are written in Tengwar, the initial n should be transcribed with the letter noldo, not númen.) WISE #saila (isolated from alasaila "unwise"), nóla (learned), saira, istima (having knowledge, learned), iswa, isqua -NGOL, VT41:13, 18, Silm:432, IS, SAY, LT2:339
  WISH (vb) #mer- (cited in the form merë, evidently the 3rd person aorist; pa.t. given as mernë) (wish, desire); WISH TO GO TO A PLACE mína- (desire to go in some direction, make for it, have some end in view). -MER, VT39:11
  WITCH (of the good magic) curuni -LT1:269
  WITH: For the purpose of Neo-Quenya writing, the best translation of "with" (in the sense of "together with") is probably #as, attested with a pronominal suffix (see below). A string of various prepositional elements meaning "with" are attested, but all are probably not meant to coexist in the same form of Quenya; rather Tolkien often changed his mind about the details. The preposition lé, le found in early material (QL:52) is probably best avoided in LotR-style Quenya (in which langauge le is rather the pronoun "you"). Tolkien later seems to be experimenting with yo and ó/o as words for "with"; yo hildinyar in SD:56 probably means *"with my heirs", and VT43:29 reproduces a table where various pronouns are suffixed to ó-, probably meaning "with" (óni *"with me", ólë *"with you", etc.) In the essay Quendi and Eldar, Tolkien assigns a dual meaning to ó- as a prefix; it was used "in words describing the meeting, junction, or union of two things or persons, or of two groups thought of as units" (WJ:367; cf. 361 regarding the underlying stem WO, said to be a dual adverb "together"). The plural equivalent of dual ó- is yo- (as in yomenië, WJ:407 cf. 361 regarding the underlying root JÔ), and it may seem to be this yo that occurs as an independent preposition in yo hildinyar in SD:56. The idea that ó- is a distinctly dual form does not appear in all sources; in VT43:29 we have forms like *ómë *"with us", implying at least three persons. In Tolkien's drafts for a Quenya rendering of the Hail Mary, he experimented with various prepositional elements for the phrase "with thee" (see VT43:29). A form carelyë was replaced with aselyë in the final version. Removing the ending -lyë "thee" and the connecting vowel before it leaves us with #as as the word (or a word) for "with"; this is probably ultimately related to the conjunction ar "and" (see VT43:30). – In English, the preposition "with" may also have an instrumental force, which is best rendered by the Quenya instrumental case (e.g. *nambanen "with [= using] a hammer").
  WITHER hesta-, WITHERED hessa (dead) -LT1:255
  WITHIN mi (see IN) -MI
  WITHOUT (adj & prep) ú (usually followed by genitive: ú calo "without light [cala]") (destitute of). WITHOUT BEAUTY úvanë, adj. úvanëa. (As for a suffix "-less", also glossed "without" by Tolkien, see entry -LESS.) -VT39:14
  WIZARD istar (nom. pl. istari and gen.pl. istarion are attested), sairon, curuvar WIZARDRY - in LT1:269, curu is glossed "magic, wizardry", but in Etym the gloss is simply "skill". -LotR:1121, UT:388, cf. IS, SAY; LT1:269
  WOLF ráca, narmo, WEREWOLF nauro; WOLFHOWL naulë (In Etym, narmo, nauro and naulë are spelt with initial ñ, 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 númen.) -DARÁK, NGAR(A)M, NGAW 
  WOMAN nís (so in MR:213, Etym gives nis, but both sources agree that the pl is nissi (the alternative pl. form nísi in VT43:31 seems abnormal, since this would be expected to become *nízi > *níri). A longer form of nís/nis is nissë, clashing with *nissë "in me". For clarity writers should probably use the short sg nís, as Tolkien himself does in MR:213, with the stem niss- before endings, as in the pl. nissi). At the end of compounds the form -nis may occur, as in Artanis (see NOBLE WOMAN). A poetic word for "woman" is †ní (female). The form #nína (gen. pl. nínaron attested, VT43:31) may have been but an ephemeral word for "woman" in Tolkien's conception. -NDIS/NÎ/NIS, MR:213, VT43:31, NÎ, INI
  WOMB #móna (isolated from mónalyo "of thy womb"). Another word, #carva, was possibly rejected by Tolkien. -VT43:31
  WON'T see WILL NOT
  WOOD toa (probably "wood" as a material rather than "wood" = "forest"; not to be confused with the homophone adj. toa "of wool, woollen"), GREAT WOOD taurë (pl. tauri is attested) (forest), wood as material: tavar (also toa), rough piece of wood: runda, piece of shaped wood: pano, smouldering wood (ember): yulmë (Note: yulmë also means "drinking, carousal") firewood: turu ("firewood" was the proper meaning, but the word was used for "wood" in general); OF WOOD taurina, WOODEN turúva, WOODEN POST samna (Þ); WOODEN HALL ampano, WOODPECKER tambaro, WOODLAND tavas (LT1:261 also gives nan(d), but this means "valley" in LotR-style Quenya.) -VT39:6, TÁWAR/Silm:438/MC:222 cf. 215, RUD, PAN, YUL, LT1:270, STAB, TAM, LT1:267
  WOOF winda -LT1:254
  WOOL tó (obsoleting oa in LT1:249; GL:71 has toa, but cf the following:) OF WOOL, WOOLLEN toa (not to be confused with the homophone toa "wood") -TOW
  WORD quetta (pl. quettar is attested. LT2:348 gives quent; this word is no doubt obsolete in LotR-style Quenya. GL:28 has "qetta-") -Silm:436, WJ:391
  WORLD Ambar (earth), THE WIDE WORLD Palurin. (LT2 gives irmin "the world, all the regions inhabited by Men"; this is probably not a valid word in LotR-style Quenya.) OF THE WORLD marda (an adjective, *"wordly"); THE ENDING OF THE WORLD Ambar-metta, ambarmetta; "WORLD-ARTIFICER" Martamo (a title of Aulë) REDEEMER OF THE WORLD Mardorunando (it is not clear whether the initial element #mardo means "world" or "of the world"; cf. marda above). -LotR:1003 cf. MBAR, VT44:36, LT1:251, 264, LT2:343, LT1:266, VT44:17
  WORN yerna (old [of things]), colla (pa.p. of #col- "bear, *wear") (borne). Also used as a noun = "vestment, cloak". -GYER, MR:385
  WORTH, WORTHY valda (dear) -GL:23
  WOSE Rú, Rúatan (pl Rúatani is given but seems perfectly regular) -UT:385
  WOUND (vb) harna-; WOUNDED harna; WOUND (noun) harwë -SKAR
  WRAP vaita- -LT1:271
  WRATH ormë (haste, violence, rushing) -GOR, KHOR
  WREATHE ría (garland) -PM:347
  WRIGHT samno (Þ) (carpenter, builder) -STAB
  WRITE #tec- (3rd pers. aorist tecë is given); WRITING sarmë (in the Etymologies also tengwë, but in a later source this word is said to mean "indication, sign, token", and this meaning may be predominant in Tolkien's later Quenya; pl tengwi is attested); WRITING SYSTEM tencelë (spelling); WRITINGS parma (book)  -VT39:8, TEK cf. WJ:394, 395, LT2:346
  WRONG raica (crooked, bent). INDUCEMENT TO DO WRONG #úsahtië (temptation), attested in the allative case (úsahtienna) -RÁYAK, VT43:23
  
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  YARD ranga (pl rangar is attested). The basic meaning of ranga was "full pace". This Númenórean linar measure was "slightly longer than our yard, approximately 38 inches [= 96.5 cm]". -UT:285, 461
  YAWN yanga-, #hac- (only attested as participle: hácala "yawning") -YAG, MC:222
  YEAR loa (lit. "growth"), coranar (lit. "sun-round", used when the year was considered more or less astronomically - but loa is stated to be the more usual word for "year"). "LONG-YEAR" yén (pl. yéni is attested in Nam, obsoleting Etym yeni). A "long-year" is a period of 144 solar years, an Elvish "century" - the Eldar used duodecimal counting, in which 144 is the first three-digit number, like our 100. But sometimes it seems that yén simply means "year". Cf the following words: LAST YEAR yenya, HAVING MANY YEARS linyenwa (old), *RECKONING OF YEARS Yénonótië -LotR:1141, YEN, MR:51
  YELLOW malina, tulca (the latter was adopted from Valarin and used in Vanyarin Quenya only),YELLOW POWDER malo (pollen), "YELLOW HAMMER" (yellow bird) ammalë, ambalë, YELLOW WATER-LILY nénu -SMAL, WJ:399, LT1:248
  YES ná (literally "is", i.e. "[so it] is"). In one conceptual phase, Tolkien used lá for "yes", but in both earlier and later material, lá is the negation "no, not" instead. -QL:64, VT42:33 
  YOKE yanta (bridge), yaltë -YAT, GL:37
  YON, YONDER (adj) enta; YONDER (interjection?) en (there, look!) -EN, VT45:12
  YOU (pl. only; for sg "you", see THOU) The ending -lyë may cover pl. as well as sg. "you"; on the other hand, Tolkien also used -llë for pl. "you" (VT43:36). The reduced form -l may be attached to an imperative: hecal! "you be gone!" [WJ:364] and probably also as object: *Utúvienyel, "I (-nye) have found you (-l)". Perhaps -l can be used for plural "you" in subject postition as well, e.g. *lendel, "you went", though this could perhaps also be *lendellë. The independent (emphatic) word for "you, even you" as subject may be *ellë, while object "you" seems to be le (perhaps also used as a polite or formal sg: "thee", though the sg. seems to be #lye in at least one late version of Quenya). YOUR – the ending would be -lya if -lyë is both sg. and pl. "you" (the ending -lya is attested with sg. meaning), but if we accept -llë as an ending for plural "you", the ending for "your" would most likely be *-lla, e.g. *aldalla "your tree".
  YOUNG nessa, vinya, cana; YOUTH nésë (Þ), nessë, laito/laisi (vigour, new life); YOUTHFUL nessima -NETH, LR:25, GL:37, LT1:267

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  ZIMRAPHEL Míriel -UT:224, Silm:324
  ZIMRATHÔN Hostamir -UT:222