-nu

suffix. masculine suffix

A common masculine suffix in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s in words like varyanu “[male] foreigner”, probably a reduced form of ᴱQ. anu (QL/31) and often paired with its feminine equivalent ᴱQ. -ni.

nu

preposition. under

núme

noun. west

-ndo

suffix. masculine suffix

fuiyáru

noun. deadly nightshade

no

preposition. under

nu karne vaiya

under red skies

The thirty first line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the preposition nu “under” followed by the adjective karne “red” and the noun vaiya “sky”, translated loosely as “skies” in the English.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> nu karne vaiya = “✱under red sky”

nún

adverb. beneath

ú

preposition. beneath

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “beneath” under the early root ᴱ√Ū “under”, a variant of ᴱ√NŪ (QL/96). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, Tolkien equated ᴱQ. ū to G. uf “out of, forth, from” (GL/74).