-i

-i

-i nominative plural ending regularly used on nouns ending in a consonant and in -ë; in the latter case, -ë is displaced (e.g. Quendë pl. Quendi).

-i

suffix. simplest aorist infinitive

Element in

• Q. -ina “adjective suffix; passive participle” ✧ PE17/068

Variations

• -i ✧ PE17/068; VT41/17

-i

suffix. general plural for nouns

Derivations

• ✶-ī “plural ending” ✧ PE17/062

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ī > -i	[-ī] > [-i]	✧ PE17/062

Variations

• -i ✧ PE17/062 (-i); WJ/361

-ion

son (of), descendant

-ion (patronymic ending) "son (of), descendant" (YŌ/YON, LT1:271, LT2:344). Not to be confused with the genitive ending -on when added to words with nominative plurals in -i, e.g. elenion "of stars" vs. eleni "stars".

-a

it is said

-r nominative plural ending regularly used on nouns ending in -a, -i, -ië, -o, -u, e.g. Ainur, Valar, tier. Occasionally it is added also to nouns ending in -ë (that normally take the ending -I in the pl.). This seems to regularly happen in the case of nouns in -lë (see #fintalë, mallë, tyellë), sometimes also otherwise (see Ingwë, wendë, essë #1). This plural ending was ("it is said") first used by the Noldor (PM:402).

-a

suffix. adjectival suffix

This suffix is frequently used to create the adjective form of a noun, especially in the form -ëa for nouns ending in -ë. This function dates back to CE. ✶-ā.

Derivations

• ✶-ā “adjectival”

Element in

• Q. airëa “holy (applied to persons)” ✧ PE17/149
• ᴺQ. aitalëa “reverent, worshipful, religious”
• Q. Aldëa “*Tuesday, Tree-day (Númenórean)”
• Q. amaurëa “dawn, early day, morning” ✧ MC/223
• Q. andúna “western”
• ᴺQ. aurëa “sunny, sunlit; *daytime”
• Q. endëa “middle”
• Q. eressëa “lonely” ✧ LotR/1116
• Q. fínëa “dexterous”
• Q. ilaurëa “*daily”
• Q. ilyarëa “*daily”
• Q. ilucara “omnificent” ✧ VT39/20
• Q. laurëa “golden (of hue)”
• Q. lillassëa “having many leaves”
• Q. lilótëa “having many flowers”
• Q. lómëa “shadowed, gloomy, shadowed, gloomy, *dusk-like”
• Q. mírëa “jewelled, jewelled, *gemmed”
• Q. nieninquëa “like a snowdrop” ✧ PE16/096
• Q. nöa “former; yesterday; tomorrow, yesterday; former, *previous; tomorrow”
• ᴺQ. nornolassëa “having oak-leaves”
• Q. núla “dark, occult, mysterious”
• Q. oialëa “eternal”
• Q. rávëa “roaring”
• Q. taurëa “forested”
• Q. túrëa “mighty, masterful, mighty, masterful, *having political power” ✧ PE17/115
• Q. úfanwëa “not veiled, unveiled”
• Q. úpahtëa “speechless”
• Q. vëa “seeming, apparent, seeming, apparent; [ᴱQ.] similar, like”
• Q. yaimëa “wailing”

-r

suffix. plural suffix

Derivations

• ✶-r “plural ending”

Element in

• Q. i falmalinnar imbë met “on the foaming waves between us” ✧ PE17/127

Variations

• -r ✧ PE17/057; PE17/062; PE17/063; PE17/073; PE17/075; PE17/127; PE17/135; PE17/190; PE22/161; VT49/16; VT49/17; VT49/48; VT49/51
• r ✧ PM/402
• re ✧ VT49/49 (re)

-on

name

-on gen.pl. ending (3O), in aldaron, aranion, elenion, Eldaron, #esseron, Ingweron, Istarion, Númevalion, Quendion, Silmarillion, Sindaron, tasarion (see Nan-Tasarion), Valion, wenderon, yénion. Normally the ending -on is added to the nominative plural, whether it ends in -i or -r, but some nouns in -ë that would have nominative plurals in -i seem to prefer the ending -ron in the genitive (hence #esseron as the gen. pl. of essë "name", though the nominative pl. is attested as essi and we might have expected the gen. pl. *ession; similarly wenderon, Ingweron).

nai

be it that

nai (1) imperative verb "be it that", used with a verb (usually in the future tense) to express a wish. The translation "maybe" in Tolkien's rendering of Namárië is somewhat misleading; he used "be it that" in the interlinear translation in RGEO:67. Apparently this is na as the imperative "be!" with a suffix -i "that", cf. i #3. It can be used with the future tense as an "expression of wish" (VT49:39). Nai hiruvalyë Valimar! Nai elyë hiruva! "May thou find Valimar. May even thou find it!" (Nam, VT49:39). Nai tiruvantes "be it that they will guard it" > "may they guard it" (CO). Nai elen siluva parma-restalyanna "may a star shine upon your book-fair" (VT49:38), nai elen siluva lyenna "may a star shine upon you" (VT49:40), nai elen atta siluvat aurenna veryanwesto "may two stars shine upon the day of your wedding" (VT49:42-45), nai laurë lantuva parmastanna lúmissen tengwiesto "may (a) golden light fall on your book at the times of your reading" (VT49:47). Nai may also be used with a present continuative verb if an ongoing situation is wished for: Nai Eru lye mánata "God bless you" (VT49:39) or literally "be it that God is (already) blessing you". The phrase nai amanyaonnalya "be it that your child [will be] blessed" omits any copula; Tolkien noted that "imper[ative] of wishes precedes adj." (VT49:41). VT49:28 has the form nái for "let it be that"; Patrick Wynne theorizes that nái is actually an etymological form underlying nai (VT49:36)

sat-

set aside, appropriate to a special purpose or owner

#sat- vb. "set aside, appropriate to a special purpose or owner" (VT42:20). Cited in the form "sati-"; the final -i may be simply the connecting vowel of the aorist (as in *satin "I set aside"). This verb "was in Quenya applied to time as well as space" (VT42:20)

esta-

verb. name

ango

noun. dragon

angulócë

dragon

angulócë noun("k") "dragon" (LOK)

esse

noun. name

essë

name

essë (1) noun "name", also later name of Tengwa #31, originally (MET) called árë (ázë). (Appendix E). With a pronominal ending esselya "thy name" (VT43:14). Pl. #essi in PM:339 and MR:470, gen.pl. #esseron "of names" in the compound Nómesseron (q.v.); we would rather have expected *ession, given the nom.pl. essi; perhaps #esser is a valid alternative plural form. Essecarmë noun "name-making" (MR:214, 470), Eldarin ceremony where the father announces the name of his child. Essecenta *("k") noun "Name-essay" (see centa) (MR:415); Essecilmë noun "name-choosing", an Eldarin ceremony where a child named him- or herself according to personal lámatyávë (q.v.) (MR:214, 471). The meaning Tolkien originally assigned to the word essë** in the Etymologies was "place" rather than "name" (VT45:12).

essë

noun. name

Cognates

• ᴺS. ess “name”

Derivations

• ᴹ√ES “indicate, name”

Element in

• Q. amilessë “mother-name”
• Q. anessë “given (or added) name, nickname, surname” ✧ MR/216
• Q. cilmessë “self-name”
• Q. epessë “after-name”
• Q. Essecarmë “Name-making” ✧ MR/470
• Q. Essecenta Eldarinwa “Enquiry (into the origins) of the Elvish names” ✧ WJ/359
• Q. Essecilmë “Name-choosing” ✧ MR/470
• Q. na airë esselya “hallowed be thy name” ✧ VT43/14
• Q. nómessë “place-name” ✧ VT42/17
• Q. notessë “numeral”
• ᴺQ. tengessë “address, (lit.) indication-name”

Variations

• esse ✧ LotR/1123
• essë ✧ MR/470
• Esse ✧ WJ/359

fenumë

dragon

fenumë noun "dragon" (LT2:341 but lócë is the normal word in LotR-style Quenya)

lócë

dragon, snake, serpent, drake

lócë ("k")noun "dragon, snake, serpent, drake", older hlócë _("k")(SA:lok-, LT2:340, LOK; in the Etymologies the word is followed by "-ī", whatever that is supposed to mean)_

sanda

name

[sanda, sandë] (þ) (2) noun "name" (VT46:16)

sanya

name

[sanya] (þ) (2) noun ?"name" (reading of gloss uncertain, VT46:16)