-mo

-mo

-mo ending frequent in names and titles, sometimes with an agental significance (WJ:400)

-mo

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

• ᴺQ. aimo “saint”
• ᴺQ. airimo “priest”
• ᴺQ. alamo “cultivator, grower”
• ᴺQ. alumo “leather-worker”
• ᴺQ. astamo “member”
• Q. astarmo “bystander; witness”
• Q. ciryamo “mariner”
• ᴺQ. cordamo “cleric”
• Q. Curumo “*Skilled-one”
• Q. enelmo “go-between, intervener, intermediary, mediator”
• ᴺQ. epeharmo “president”
• Q. Estelmo “*Hope-person”
• Q. Herucalmo
• ᴺQ. hyólamo “trumpeter”
• Q. ingolmo “loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge, loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge, *scientist”
• Q. Írimon
• Q. Irmo “Desirer”
• Q. Isilmo
• ᴺQ. lingwimo “fisherman”
• Q. Maitimo “Well-shaped One”
• Q. námo “person, somebody (unnamed)”
• Q. Nólimon “*Learned One”
• Q. nolmo “wise person”
• ᴺQ. ongwemo “criminal, transgressor”
• Q. onótimo “*reckoner” ✧ MR/049
• Q. ormo “riser”
• ᴺQ. ostomo “citizen”
• ᴺQ. parmo “student, (lit.) learner”
• ᴺQ. nólemo “student”
• ᴺQ. quernamo “proselyte, convert”
• Q. Súlimo “Lord of the Breath of Arda, (lit.) Breather”
• Q. tirmo “watcher”
• ᴺQ. tungwemo “tax-collector”
• Q. Ulmo “Pourer”
• Q. vinimo “baby, little-one”
• Q. vinyamo “youngster”
• ᴺQ. yulmo “drinker”

Elements

Word	Gloss
mo	“one, anyone, someone, somebody”

-r(o)

suffix. agental suffix

Derivations

• ✶-ro “an old agental formation” ✧ WJ/371

Element in

• Q. Haimenar “*Far-farer”
• Q. Avar “Refuser, Elf who did not journey to Aman” ✧ WJ/371
• Q. Calantar “Light-giver”
• ᴺQ. cuitar “alarm, device to waken somebody”
• Q. Envinyatar “Renewer”
• ᴺQ. hatar “thrower (of spears and darts)”
• Q. Istar “Wizard, (lit.) One Who Knows”
• Q. maitar “artist; poet”
• ᴺQ. mancaro “tradesman, trader, merchant”
• Q. nostar “parent, begetter, *ancestor; parent, begetter”
• Q. ohtar “warrior”
• Q. quentaro “speaker, reciter, speaker, reciter; [ᴹQ.] narrator, minstrel” ✧ PE18/100
• Q. sanar “mind, thinker, reflector” ✧ VT41/13
• ᴺQ. tanar “indicator, [linguistics] demonstrative”
• Q. Telcontar “Strider”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶-rŏ > -r	[-ro] > [-r]	✧ WJ/371

Variations

• -ro ✧ PE18/100 (-ro)
• -r ✧ VT41/13 (-r); WJ/371 (-r)