-llo

ablative adverbial suffix

-llo (1) "ablative adverbial suffix" (PE17:72) implying "from" or "out of", as in sindanóriello "out of a grey land", Rómello "from the East" (Nam), Mardello "from Earth" (FS), ulcullo "from evil" (VT43:12), sillumello "from this hour" (VT44:35), yello "from whom" (VT47:21), Manwello *"from Manwë" (VT49:24), Melcorello / Melkorello "from Melkor" (VT49:7, 24). Pl. -llon (so in Plotz) or -llor (in illon, elenillor, raxellor, elendellor, q.v.); dual -lto (Plotz). A shorter form of the ablative ending, -lo, apparently occurs in the words silo "hence" and talo "from there", q.v. In the Etymologies, Tolkien cited the Quenya ablative ending as -ello, evidently including the connecting vowel -e- that may be inserted when the ending is added to a word ending in a consonant (VT45:28), compare Melcorello. See also ló, lo #2.

-llo

suffix. (movement) from; ablative suffix, (movement) from, [ᴱQ.] out of; [Q.] ablative suffix

The Quenya ablative suffix indicating motion away; see that entry for discussion.

Conceptual Development: This suffix had the form ᴱQ. -llo dating all the way back to the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s (PE14/46, 78).

ló

preposition. (away) from; by agent [of], (away) from; by agent [of]; [ᴹQ.] ablative element

A rarely used prepositional equivalent of -llo (VT49/24; EtyAC/LŌ). In one note from 1969 Tolkien said “lō̆ as independent word was used only with person; thus not Manwello but lo Manwe, and usually in sense ‘by agent’ (VT49/24)”. As an example Tolkien gave the phrase nahtana lō Turin, apparently meaning “slain from [by agency of] Turin”. I interpret this to mean ló can only be used with animate beings, and no longer means “away from” by rather “by agency of”.

Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s lō was given as a derivative of the “ablative element” ᴹ√LŌ (EtyAC/LŌ).

nec-

verb. to divide, separate, part; [with ablative] quit, give up, part with, separate oneself from, break up with

A neologism for “divide, separate, part"” coined by Luinyelle posted on 2026-03-31 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) based on √NEK of the same meaning. She further suggested it may mean “quit, give up, part with, separate oneself from, break up with” in combination with reflexive immo “self” with the thing separated/given up in the ablative: nencen immo melindonyallo “I broke up with [(lit.) separated self from] my lover”, nences immo hyero-yuliello “he/she gave up/quit [(lit.) separated self from] wine drinking”.

The neologism ᴺQ. cilta- “to divide, separate” appeared in ABNW (ABNW) from the early 2000s based on ᴹ√KIL “divide”, but that use for this root seems to have been supplanted by √KIL “choose” published in 2015.