Quenya
-ndo
suffix. masculine agent
Cognates
- S. -on “masculine suffix”
Derivations
- ✶-on(do) “masculine ending”
Element in
-ndon
similative
-ndon
suffix. -like, -ily
Variations
-ndo✧ PE17/074
-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)
-ndon, case-ending for "similative": wilwarindon "like a butterfly" (see wilwarin), laurendon "like gold" _(PE17:58) In the post-LotR period Tolkien decided to abandon this ending, apparently because it was to similar to the agental suffix -ndo (PE17:58)_, and it does not appear in the Plotz decension.