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Quenya (Last Updated July 5Th, 2008) Helge K. Fauskanger http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ zzR1RR1'Eq'E'EqE6EE6tt# ## zzR5RR5Ì#5Ì#Ì#5"# "#"# English – Quenya (last updated July 5th, 2008) by Helge K. Fauskanger http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ Wordlist last updated July 5th, 2008 1 Presented by http://www.ambar-eldaron.com Helge K. Fauskanger http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ 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 (HarperCollins Publishers , one-volume edition of 1991), Silm = The Silmarillion (HarperCollins Publishers 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 July 5th, 2008 2 Presented by http://www.ambar-eldaron.com Helge K. Fauskanger http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ Wordlist last updated July 5th, 2008 A A, AN (indefinite article) – no Quenya ACCOUNT (noun) quentalë (history), equivalent. Elen "star" may thus also be lúmequenta (chronological account, history); translated "a star" (LotR:94) , Elda “Elf” is also HISTORICAL ACCOUNT quentasta (any the equivalent of “an Elf” (Letters:281) . The word particular arrangement, by some author, of a laurë Tolkien translated as “(a) golden light”, series of reconds or evidences into a given indicating that “a” has no equivalent in Quenya historical account – not History as such, which is (VT49:47) . The absence of the definite article i quentalë ) –KWET, LU, VT39:16 "the" usually indicates that the noun is indefinite ACCURSED húna (cursed). –PE17:149 (though there are exceptions – see THE ). ACRE resta (sown field) –VT46:11 cf. ABANDON hehta - (pa.t. hehtanë is given) RED (put aside, leave out, exclude, forsake) –WJ:365 ACROSS arta (athwart) (Note: arta also ABHOR feuya-, yelta - (loathe); THE means "fort, fortress") –LT2:335 ABHORRED Sauron ( Þ) –PHEW/VT46:9, ACT OF WILL nirmë –VT39:30 Silm:418, VT45:11 ACTOR tyaro (agent, doer) –KYAR ABIDE mar - (be settled of fixed) (fut. ACTUAL anwa (real, true), nanwa #maruva is attested: maruvan "I will abide") ; (existing, true) –ANA, VT49:30 ABIDE BY himya - (cleave to, stick to, adhere); ACUTE tereva (fine, piercing); ACUTE, ABIDING sanda (Þ) (firm, true); LAW-ABIDING ACUTENESS laicë (In the printed Etymologies, sanya (Þ) (regular, normal) (variant vorosanya a similar word is also the adjective "keen, sharp, with a prefixed element meaning "ever"). – acute", but according to VT45:25, this is a UT:317/LotR:1003, KHIM/VT45:22, misreading; the final vowel of the adjective STAN/VT46:16 should be -a, not -ë. However, the conceptual ABLE, BE; see BE ABLE validity of the adjective laica , and therefore also ABOVE: According to VT44:26, Tolkien in the corresponding noun laicë , is questionable; one text glosses apa as "above but touching", see PIERCING.) –TER, LAIK but apa is normally taken as the preposition ADAPT camta - (sic; the cluster mt seems "after" instead. For "above", the preposition or unusual for Quenya; while the source does not "over" may be used. explicitly say that this word is Quenya, it is ABUNDANCE úvë ; ABUNDANT úvëa (in difficult to understand what other language could a very great number), úmëa (swarming, teaming be intended) (to [make] fit, suit, accomodate) – – but elsewhere a similar word is defined as VT44:14 "evil", so úvëa may be preferred), alya (rich, ADD napan -, yantya - (augment) – blessed, prosperous) –UB, VT48:32, GALA PE17:146, 15:68 % ABUSE (vb, evidently meaning to abuse ADHERE himya - (abide by, cleave to, verbally) naitya - (put to shame) –QL:65 stick to) –VT45:22, cf. KHIM ABYSS undumë –MC:222 cf. 215 ADHERING himba (sticking) –KHIM ACCOMODATE camta - (sic; the cluster ADMIRAL ciryatur (only attested as the mt seems unusual for Quenya, and while the personal name Ciryatur of an admiral, but the source does not explicitly say that this word is word means *"ship-ruler") –UT:239 Quenya, it is difficult to understand what other ADORN netya - (trim). (Note: netya is also language could be intended) (to [make] fit, suit, an adj. "pretty, dainty" .) SMALL THING OF adapt) –VT44:14 PERSONAL ADORNMENT netil –VT47:33 Wordlist last updated July 5th, 2008 3 Presented by http://www.ambar-eldaron.com Helge K. Fauskanger http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ ADULT (adj) vëa (manly, vigorous); AGONY qualmë (death), unqualë (death; ADULT MAN vëaner ; ADULT MALE nér (ner -, according to VT45:24, Tolkien changed this word as in. pl neri ) (man) –WEG, DER to anqualë ) –KWAL, VT45:5, 24, 36 ADÛNAKHOR Herunúmen –UT:222, AH (interj.) ai (alas) Ai! laurië lantar lassi Silm:322 Ah! golden fall the leaves (Nam) AEGNOR Aicanáro (so in Silm:435 and AIR vista (= air as substance); vilya older PM:345; MR:323 has Aicanár ) (Sharp Flame, [MET] wilya (sky); vilma (lower air) (perhaps Fell Fire) changed to vista , but vilma was not struck out in AFFECT # ap - (given as aorist stem apë ) Etym); lindë (tune, song, singing); PUFF OF AIR (to concern, to touch one) –VT44:26 hwesta (breeze, breath); UPPER AIRS AND AFFECTIONATE méla (loving) –VT39:10 CLOUDS fanyarë (skies), AIRY vilin (breezy) – AFFLICTED – be afflicted: moia - (labour). WIS, WIL/LT1:273, LIN, SWES/LotR:1157, The participle * moiala may then be used to MC:223, LT1:273 translate "afflicted" as an adjective, describing ALAS (interj.) ai (ah) (Etym also gives a one who is "labouring" or toiling as a thrall. – word nai , but this clashes with nai "be it that" in VT43:31 Namárië.) ; also orro or horro as an AFTER apa (also attested in compounds "exclamation of horror, pain, disgust: ugh, alas! like Apanónar , see below) , # ep - (used in ow!" –Nam/RGEO:66, NAY, VT45:17 compounds when the second part of the ALIKE véla –VT49:10 compound begins with a vowel, only attested in ALIVE cuina ; BEING ALIVE (noun not adj) epessë "after-name" – see NICKNAME .) This cuilë (life) (LT1:257 gives coina , coirëa ; see ep - is a shorter form of epë , which means LIVING) –KUY “before” of spatial relationships but “after” of time ALL illi (as independent noun) , also ilya (since the Eldar imagined time coming after their (all of a particular group of things, the whole, present as being before them, VT49:12); apa each, every) (Note: ilya normally appears as ilyë and epë may be seen as variants of the same before a plural noun: ilyë tier "abll paths") ; word. Other variant forms of apa "after" include ALLNESS, THE ALL ilúvë (the whole). opo and pó /po (VT44:36, VT49:12). According According to early material, ALL THE... (followed to VT44:26, the preposition apa may also appear by some noun) is rendered by i quanda , e.g. * i as pa , pá (cf. yéni pa yéni "years after years" in quanda cemen "all the earth; the whole earth". VT44:35), but pa /pá is in other manuscripts ALL THAT IS WANTED fárë , farmë (plenitude, defined as "touching, as regards, concerning". sufficiency) –VT47:30, VT39:20, VT44:9, IL, THE AFTER-BORN Apanónar (sg # Apanóna ) Nam cf. RGEO:67, Silm:433/WJ:402, QL:70, (i.e., an Elvish name of Men, according to PHAR/VT46:9 WJ:387 "a word of lore, not used in daily ALLOW lav- (yield, grant); NOT ALLOW speech") –Silm:122/WJ:387, UT:266 TO CONTINUE nuhta- (stunt, prevent from AGAIN ata ; AGAIN (prefix) en-, (prefix) at- coming to completion, stop short) –DAB, WJ:413 , ata- (back-, re-) ( AT[AT]) ALONE (see also LONELY, SOLE) er AGAINST: According to VT44:26, Tolkien (one, alone, only, but, still), eressë (singly, only, in some documents glosses apa or pá as also as noun: solitude) –ERE, LT1:269 "touching, against", but apa is normally the ALPHABET tengwanda –TEK preposition "after" instead (see AFTER). The ALSO yando –QL:104 allative case in -nna is normally sufficient to ALTHOUGH (or "nothwithstanding") – express motion towards or against something.
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