Sindarin 

avo

verb. don't!

Used as a negative adverb before an imperative: avo garo "don't do it!". Sometimes used as prefix: avgaro

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avo

adverb. negative adverb used with verbs in imperative

adv. negative adverb used with verbs in imperative, often as prefix (av-, af-).

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avon

suffix. I won't

v. & pron. suff. I won't. Q. ván, vanye. >> avo

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avon

place name. Unmarred State

A Sindarin cognate of Q. Aman, appearing only in Quenya Note (QN) from 1957 (PE17/162).

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avorn

adjective. staying, fast

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avo garo

don’t do it

avon

verb. I won't

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avon

place name. 'Unmarred State'

topon. 'Unmarred State', esp. applied to the 'unmarred' western regions, of which Valinor was part. Q. Aman.

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avo

dont

1) avo (+ lenited imperative, e.g. avo garo "dont do"); av- (prefix added to imperative verbs, followed by lenition: avgaro! "dont do!" as a negative version of caro! "do!"), 2) baw! (= "no!", as interjection expressing refusal or prohibition)

avorn

staying

(adj.) avorn (not moving, fast), pl. evyrn

avorn

fast

(= not moving) avorn (staying), pl. evyrn. For ”fast = quick”, see QUICK, RAPID, SWIFT.

avorn

not moving

(adj.) avorn (staying, fast), pl. evyrn., see MASTER

avorn

staying

(not moving, fast), pl. evyrn

avorn

not moving

(staying, fast), pl. evyrn

avorn

fast

(staying), pl. evyrn. For ”fast = quick”, see

a

don’

vo (+ lenited imperative, e.g. avo garo "don’t do"); av- (prefix added to imperative verbs, followed by lenition: avgaro! "don’t do!" as a negative version of caro! "do!")

ava-

verb. will not, do not

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ad

again

(as prefix) ad-, also meaning "back, second, re-", e.g. aderthad "reunion".

ad

back

(as prefix) ad-, also meaning "second, again, re-", e.g. aderthad "reunion".

ava

will not

ava- (i ava, in avar).

ava

will not

ava- (i ava, in avar)

dan

back

(prep.) dan (lenited nan) (again, against);

dartha

stay

1) dartha- (i dhartha, i narthar) (wait, remain, last, endure) (VT45:8), 2) dortha- (i northa, i ndorthar) (dwell). Adj.

Lossoth

noun. the Snowmen

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anfangrim

noun. the Longbeards (a tribe of Dwarves)

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anglennatha

verb. (he) will approach

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ava-

auxillary verb. will not

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avar

noun. refuser

This plural name was known to the loremasters, but went out of daily use at the time of the Exile

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avar

noun. the Avari, Elves who refused the invitation of the Valar

This plural name was known to the loremasters, but went out of daily use at the time of the Exile

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avar

proper name. Refuser

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avgaro

don’t do it

cuio

verb. live!

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dagorath

noun. all the battles

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drúwaith

noun. the wilderness of the Drû-men (q.v.)

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falathrim

noun. people of the Falas

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galadhad

noun. the Two Trees of Valinor

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lammas

noun. account of tongues

Sindarin [LR/167, WJ/206, WJ/393, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

lâf

verb. (he) licks

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lôd

verb. (he) floats

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noro

verb. run! ride!

Untranslated in LotR, but written nora-lim and rendered as "ride on" in RS/196 (not a literal translation) and later translated as "run swift" in RC/195. A verb nor- is attested in the old Gnomish lexicon, PE/11:61, with the meaning "to run, roll"

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pêd

verb. (he) says

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rammas

noun. (great) wall

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rochirrim

noun. horse-lords, the people of Rohan

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tôl

verb. (he) comes

According to WJ/301, the expression tôl acharn "vengeance comes" was later changed to tûl acharn by Tolkien

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ónen

noun. I gave

Written onen in some editions of LotR. In the Qenyaqetsa, Qenya anta- is marked as having an irregular past tense áne. Assuming the same sound-shifts as observed in other words, this would indeed lead to onen in Sindarin, see PE/12:31 and TT/14:48-49

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ad

again

also meaning "back, second, re-", e.g. aderthad "reunion".

ad

back

also meaning "second, again, re-", e.g. aderthad "reunion".

baw!

don’

(= "no!", as interjection expressing refusal or prohibition)

dan

back

(lenited nan) (again, against);

dartha

stay

(i dhartha, i narthar) (wait, remain, last, endure) (VT45:8)

dortha

stay

(i northa, i ndorthar) (dwell). Adj.

eden

begun again

(new), pl. edin

rinc

sudden move

(twitch, jerk, trick), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rinc), coll. pl. ringath.

Quenya 

uhta-

verb. dislike, feel disgust with, avoid as painful

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uhta-

verb. to dislike, feel disgust with, avoid as painful or nasty

avanev-

verb. to avoid, (lit.) refuse to face

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áva carë

Don’t do it

ata

again

ata adv. "again", also prefix ata-, at- "back, again, re-; second time, double" (AT(AT), PE17:166, cf. ataquanta-, ataquetië) or "two" (PE17:166), also "ambi-" as in ataformaitë, q.v.

ausië

wealth

ausië noun "wealth" (LT2:336; rather lar or alma in Tolkiens later Quenya)

lev-

move

lev- verb "move" (intransitive)(PE16:132)

nan

adverb. again

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opto

noun. back

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pontë

back, rear

pontë (ponti-) noun "back, rear" (QL:75)

úva

will not

úva (1) vb. "will not", future tense of a negative verb (present/aorist tense úyë?) in Fíriel's Song. Compare #úva as the future tense of the negative verb ua- (q.v.) in a later source (PE17:144, where the verb is cited with a 1st person sg. ending: úvan).

catta

noun. back

A neologism for “back” coined by Paul Strack in 2022 specifically for Eldamo, based on Q. ca(ta) “behind, at back of place”. This word can refer to the back of body as well as the back of other things.

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Noldorin 

afor

proper name. Refuser, an Elf who did not journey to Aman

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ad-

prefix. back, again, re-

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blâb

verb. (he) flaps, beats

The Etymologies seem to list this word as a noun, but it is clearly the third person singular of the verb

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dar-

verb. to stay, wait, stop, remain

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lhammas

noun. account of tongues

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lhâf

verb. (he) licks

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lhôd

verb. (he) floats

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orthor

verb. (he) masters, conquers

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osgar

verb. (he) cuts, amputates

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síla

verb. (he) shines white

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sôg

verb. (he) drinks

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thia

verb. it appears

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tôg

verb. (he) leads, brings

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tôl

verb. (he) comes

According to WJ/301, the expression tôl acharn "vengeance comes" was later changed to tûl acharn by Tolkien

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Primitive elvish

ug

root. dislike

In a 1969 essay on negation, Tolkien restored √LA as basis for the “negative of fact”, and altered the meaning of Q. ú to be “bad, uneasy, hard” as a sort of “negative with a bad sense” based on this new root √UG “dislike” (PE22/160). This is similar to the usage of these ú-forms in The Etymologies of the 1930s, where the root ᴹ√ was a negative root, but its derivative ᴹQ. ú- was “not (with evil connotation)” (Ety/GŪ), though in the 1930s it seems to have been a true negative, as opposed to 1969 where it meant “difficult” or “impossible”. See the entry on the Quenya entry negative for a more information on the conceptual development of this and other negative roots.

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ámān

place name. Unmarred State

Primitive elvish [PE17/162] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aba-kar ā

don’t do it

Primitive elvish [WJ/371] Group: Eldamo. Published by

khan

root. back

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tō/oto

root. back

A root in a discussion of prefixes for “back” from around 1959, which Tolkien specified as meaning: “back as an answer, or return by another agent to an action affecting him, as in answering, replying, avenging, requiting, repaying, rewarding”; Tolkien also considered the forms √UTU/TŪ (PE17/166). But Tolkien crossed this all through and seems to have replaced it with √KHAN. Tolkien mentioned the root √OT in a discussion of numbers from the late 1960s, but only to specify that “there was no primitive base OT-” (VT47/16).

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Early Noldorin

avosaith

noun. gloomy places

A word translated “gloomy places” from the Nebrachar poem written around 1930 (MC/217). Its etymology is unclear. In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, G. avosaith was glossed “avarice” (GL/20), but in its later interpretation as “gloomy places”, its final element might be G. gath “gloom, blight” < ᴱ✶ı̯ādh (GL/37).

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avod

adverb. again, back again, in return

Early Noldorin [PE13/136; PE13/137; PE13/160] Group: Eldamo. Published by

bod

adverb. back

Early Noldorin [PE13/139] Group: Eldamo. Published by

bod-

prefix. back, back, [G.] again; un- (= backwards)

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bôn

noun. back

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Gnomish

avos

noun. wealth, fortune, prosperity; luck

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avosaith

noun. avarice, money-greed, greed of gold

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abod

adverb. again; in return, in exchange; back

Gnomish [GL/17; GL/23] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ausir

masculine name. Wealth (Personified)

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aus(s)aith

noun. avarice

Early Quenya

ausie

noun. wealth

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auvar

masculine name. Wealth

A Qenya name for G. Ausir in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/33), also appearing as Autar and replacing rejected Avar/Avas.

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milkin

noun. wealth

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Qenya 

opto

noun. back

á lá

don’t do it

Doriathrin

dôn

noun. back

A Doriathrin word for “back” explicitly marked as a noun (Ety/NDAN). Its primitive form might have been ✱✶ndān, so that the primitive long [[ilk|[ā] became [ō]]] and the [[ilk|initial nasal [n] was lost before the stop]] (as suggested by Helge Fauskanger, AL-Doriathrin/dôn).

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