Quenya 

-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

WordGloss
mo“one, anyone, someone, somebody”
Quenya [MR/049; WJ/400] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-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

DevelopmentStagesSources
-rŏ > -r[-ro] > [-r]✧ WJ/371

Variations

  • -ro ✧ PE18/100 (-ro)
  • -r ✧ VT41/13 (-r); WJ/371 (-r)
Quenya [PE18/100; VT41/13; WJ/371] Group: Eldamo. Published by

naico

sinner

naico (1) noun "sinner"; see naicando

naicando

sinner

#naicando (and #naico, both attested as plural forms in -or) noun "sinner" (VT43:33; Tolkien may have abandoned these forms i favour of #úcarindo)

úcarindo

sinner

#úcarindo (pl. úcarindor, VT43:27) noun "sinner"; cf. úcar-. The form úlcarindor occurring in an older variant of the text in question seems abnormal, since Quenya rarely has a long vowel in front of a consonant cluster (VT43:33)

Valarauco

demon of might

Valarauco ("k") noun "Demon of Might" (here vala- assumes its basic meaning "power, might"), Sindarin balrog(WJ:415). Pl. Valaraucar (sic, not -or) "Balrogs", apparently containing rauca (q.v.) as an alternative form of rauco "demon" (SA:val-, SA:rauco). Earlier forms from the "Qenya Lexicon" are Valcaraucë, Malcaraucë (q.v.), apparently abandoned in LotR-style Quenya.

Sindarin 

-or

ending referring to persons or animals used after n

pl1. -yr suff. masc. ending referring to persons or animals used after n. >> -on

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:141] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

-or

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • S. magor “swordsman” ✧ LotR/0081
Sindarin [LotR/0081] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-on

suffix. masculine suffix

A masculine suffix and ending in male names (PE17/43, 141; WJ/400), probably related to the masculine ending or agental suffix ✶-on(do) (NM/353; Ety/KAL). It becomes -or when following an n (PE17/141).

Conceptual Development: N. -on was often use as a male suffix in the Noldorin of the 1930s and 40s. In Gnomish of the 1910s, it seems G. -os was another common male suffix in words such as G. ainos “(male) god” from neuter G. ain “god” (GL/18) and G. hethos “brother” from neuter G. heth “✱sibling” (GL/48-49), though masculine G. -(r)on was still more common in this early period.

Cognates

  • Q. -ndo “masculine agent”

Derivations

Element in

Variations

  • -on ✧ PE17/141; WJ/387; WJ/400
  • -or ✧ PE17/141
Sindarin [PE17/141; WJ/387; WJ/400] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-(r)on

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • ᴺS. aeron “saint”
  • ᴺS. caron “actor, agent, doer, maker”
  • ᴺS. eithron “*spearman, [ᴱN.] warrior”
  • S. Girithron “December, *Shuddering-one”
  • S. Gwaeron “March, *Windy-one”
  • S. Lothron “May, *Flower-ness”
  • ᴺS. mavron “shepherd, herdsman”
  • S. ogron “wicked or evil person” ✧ PE17/170

Variations

  • -ron ✧ PE17/170
Sindarin [PE17/170] Group: Eldamo. Published by

raegdan

noun. sinner

Elements

WordGloss
raeg“wrong, [G.] awry, twisted, distorted, perverse, leering (of face)”
tân“builder, smith, wright, artificer”
Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

rhugaron

noun. sinner

Elements

WordGloss
rhugar“evil deed, evil deed, *sin”
Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

Adûnaic

suffix. masculine suffix

A suffix used to form masculine nouns from common or neuter nouns (SD/435). Another common variant was (SD/438).

Variations

  • ✧ SD/435

-ân Reconstructed

suffix. agental suffix

A suffix that is used in some examples for agental-formation: creating nouns from verbs that indicate the agent who performs the verb’s action. The clearest example is sapthân “wise man” derived (after some ancient sound modifications) from saphad- “to understand”. This formation means “✱one who understands”. Less clear examples are ✱magân “wright, ✱builder”, perhaps from a verb ✱mag- “to build”, and kathuphazgân “conquerer”, perhaps a combined of katha “all” and a verb ?phazag- “to take”, meaning “✱one who takes all”.

It is not clear how this suffix related to the similar participle suffix -ân used for form adjectives from verbs. See the entry on participle for further discussion. Andreas Moehn suggested (EotAL/TAN) that -ân as an agental formation may be related to anâ “human being”.

Derivations

  • ✶Ad. -ān “agental suffix”

Element in

Variations

  • -ān ✧ SD/429 (-ān)

Noldorin 

-or

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • N. gollor “magician” ✧ Ety/ÑGOL
  • N. maethor “warrior” ✧ Ety/MAK
Noldorin [Ety/MAK; Ety/ÑGOL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-on

suffix. agental suffix

-on

suffix. masculine suffix

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. -ndo “*agent (male)”

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶-ndō “agental suffix”

Element in

Variations

  • -on ✧ Ety/NU

-(r)on

suffix. agental suffix

Derivations

  • On. -ndo “*agental suffix”
    • ᴹ✶-ndō “agental suffix”

Element in

  • N. badhron “judge” ✧ Ety/BAD
  • N. brannon “lord” ✧ Ety/BARÁD
  • N. callon “hero”
  • N. Durion “Dark-elf”
  • N. egledhron “exile”
  • N. faron “hunter”
  • N. Girithron “December, *Shuddering-one”
  • N. Gwaeron “March, *Windy-one”
  • N. hadron “thrower (of spears and darts)” ✧ Ety/KHAT
  • N. heron “lord, master”
  • N. Lothron “May, *Flower-ness”
  • N. maethon “sword” ✧ EtyAC/MAK (maethon)
  • N. melethron “lover (m.)” ✧ Ety/MEL
  • N. mellon “friend” ✧ Ety/MEL
  • N. nathron “weaver, webster”
  • N. odhron “parent”
  • N. pethron “narrator, reciter, minstrel”
  • N. thavron “carpenter, wright, builder”

Variations

  • -ron ✧ Ety/BAD (-ron); Ety/KHAT (-ron); Ety/MEL (-ron)
  • -on ✧ Ety/BARÁD (-on); Ety/MEL (-on); EtyAC/MAK (-on)
Noldorin [Ety/BAD; Ety/BARÁD; Ety/KHAT; Ety/MEL; EtyAC/MAK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-we

suffix. masculine suffix

Derivations

  • On. -wega “masculine name” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ✶wegō “man; warrior” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ√WEG “(manly) vigour” ✧ Ety/ING; Ety/WEG

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
On. -wega > -we[-wega] > [-weɣa] > [-weɣ] > [-we]✧ Ety/WEG

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Primitive adûnaic

-ān Reconstructed

suffix. agental suffix

An apparent primitive form of the Classical Adûnaic agental suffix -ân, attested in the Primitive Adûnaic word saphdān = SAPHAD + -ān (SD/421).

Derivatives

  • Ad. -ân “agental suffix”

Element in

  • ✶Ad. saphdān “wise man, wizard” ✧ SD/421
Primitive adûnaic [SD/421] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

-mo

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Kalamor “Light-elves” ✧ Ety/KAL
  • ᴹQ. Írimor “Fair Ones”
  • ᴹQ. Istimor “The Wise”
  • ᴹQ. Morimor “Dark Elves, *(lit.) Dark-ones”

-ro

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • ᴹQ. nandaro “harper” ✧ Ety/ÑGAN
  • ᴹQ. tambaro “woodpecker, (lit.) knocker”
  • ᴹQ. Vaiaro “Ulmo”

-we

suffix. masculine suffix

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶wegō “man; warrior” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ√WEG “(manly) vigour” ✧ Ety/ING; Ety/WEG

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶-wego > -we[-wego] > [-weg] > [-weɣ] > [-we]✧ Ety/WEG

Variations

  • -we ✧ Ety/WEG; PE21/01
Qenya [Ety/WEG; PE21/01] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Doriathrin

-on Reconstructed

suffix. masculine suffix

Apparently a masculine suffix attested in the name Dairon.

Element in

Old Noldorin 

-ro

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • On. etledro “exile” ✧ Ety/LED
Old Noldorin [Ety/LED] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

-ndō

suffix. agental suffix

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. -ndo “*agent (male)”
  • N. -on “masculine suffix”
  • On. -ndo “*agental suffix”
    • N. -(r)on “agental suffix”

Element in

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KAL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

-or

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • G. ecthor “warrior, swordsman” ✧ GL/31
  • G. aith(i)or “warrior, swordsman” ✧ GL/18
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/31] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ir

suffix. agental suffix

-og

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • G. aithrog “warrior” ✧ PE13/109
  • G. guinog “chattel” ✧ GL/43
  • G. fedhrog “one bound by oath” ✧ GL/34

Variations

  • -og ✧ GL/34 (-og); GL/43 (-og); PE13/109 (-og)
Gnomish [GL/34; GL/43; PE13/109] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-os

suffix. masculine suffix

Element in

  • G. ainos “(male) god” ✧ GL/18
  • G. hiros “guardian, overseer, lord, master”
  • G. hethos “brother” ✧ GL/49

Variations

  • -os ✧ GL/18 (-os); GL/49 (-os)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/49] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-(r)on

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • G. bagron “trader” ✧ GL/21
  • G. gwadhron “inhabitant (m.)” ✧ GL/47
  • G. bedhron “husband” ✧ GL/22
  • G. bridhon “king, prince” ✧ GL/24
  • G. aithron “warrior, †swordsman” ✧ GL/18
  • G. tarnon “porter” ✧ GL/69
  • G. gadron “fellow, associate” ✧ GL/36
  • G. gagron “yoke ox, bullock” ✧ GL/36
  • G. gomodron “companion, associate, fellow; monk” ✧ GL/41
  • G. gwar(e)dhon “m. companion, comrade”
  • G. hermon “lord” ✧ GL/49
  • G. fwion “nephew” ✧ GL/36
  • G. mathron “herd, herdsman, shepherd”
  • G. cwingron “archer” ✧ GL/28
  • G. grethron “saviour” ✧ GL/42
  • G. Gwalon “male god” ✧ GL/44

Variations

  • -ron ✧ GL/18 (-ron); GL/21 (-ron); GL/22 (-ron); GL/28 (-ron); GL/36 (-ron); GL/36 (-ron); GL/41 (-ron); GL/42 (-ron); GL/47 (-ron)
  • -on ✧ GL/24 (-on); GL/36 (-on); GL/44 (-on); GL/49 (-on); GL/69 (-on)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/21; GL/22; GL/24; GL/28; GL/36; GL/41; GL/42; GL/44; GL/47; GL/49; GL/69] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-weg

suffix. masculine suffix

Cognates

Element in

  • G. badweg “traveller; pedlar” ✧ GL/21 (badweg)
  • G. bridhweg “liege (m.)” ✧ GL/24
  • G. bridhwig “liege (f.)”
  • S. Bronwe “*Endurance”
  • G. Bronweg “Constant One” ✧ LT1A/Bronweg
  • G. driodweg “hero, warrior” ✧ GL/30
  • G. aithweg “warrior” ✧ PE13/109
  • G. faronweg “foreigner (m.)” ✧ GL/34
  • G. felweg “one’s fellow or equal, rival” ✧ GL/34
  • G. gothweg “warrior” ✧ GL/42
  • G. horweg “an ancient, old man” ✧ LT1A/Vailimo
  • G. enweg “name sake” ✧ GL/32
  • G. finweg “craftsman, man of skill” ✧ LT1A/Finwë
  • G. Manweg ✧ LT1A/Manwë
  • G. mothweg “shepherd”
  • G. curdhweg “sinner [m.]” ✧ GL/28
  • G. fedhirweg “lawman, lawyer” ✧ GL/34
Gnomish [GL/21; GL/24; GL/28; GL/30; GL/32; GL/34; GL/42; LT1A/Bronweg; LT1A/Finwë; LT1A/Manwë; LT1A/Vailimo; PE13/109] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

-mo

suffix. agental suffix

Element in

  • Eq. varimo “foreigner” ✧ QL/100
  • Eq. laulemo “inhabitant” ✧ QL/052
  • Eq. manimo “holy soul” ✧ QL/058
  • Eq. qolimo “invalid” ✧ QL/078
Early Quenya [QL/052; QL/058; QL/078; QL/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ndo

suffix. masculine suffix

Element in

  • Eq. herendo “brother” ✧ QL/040
Early Quenya [QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-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.

Element in

  • Eq. ettanu “male cousin” ✧ QL/036
  • Eq. hestanu “brother” ✧ QL/040
  • Eq. túranu “king” ✧ QL/095
  • Eq. varyanu “foreigner” ✧ QL/100

Elements

WordGloss
anu“a male, man”
Early Quenya [QL/036; QL/040; QL/095; QL/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by