dail

adjective. delicate

adj. delicate, beautiful and fine, slender. Q. lelya.

dail

adjective. lovely

_ adj. _lovely, beautiful. Q. lelya. >> deil

dail

adjective. beautiful, fine, delicate, lovely

deil

adjective. delicate

adj. delicate, beautiful and fine, slender. Q. lelya. >> dail

deil

lovely

_ adj. _lovely, beautiful. Q. lelya. >> dail

deil Archaic

adjective. beautiful, fine, delicate, lovely

levain tad-dail

collective name. Petty Dwarves, (lit.) Two-legged Animals

A name the Sindarin used for the Petty Dwarves when they first believed they were only animals, a combination of the plural of lavan “animal” and the plural of tad-dal “two-legged” (WJ/388).

Levain tad-dail

noun. two-legged animals

levain (pl. of lavan “animal, four-footed beast”), tad (“two”) + tail (pl. of tal “foot”)

tad-dal

adjective. two-legged, two-legged, *biped

A word for “two-legged” = “✱biped” appearing only in its plural form tad-dail (WJ/388), a combination of tâd “two” and the lenited plural of tâl “foot”.

tad-dal

biped

(i dad-dal, o thad-dal), pl. tad-dail (i thad-dail)

tad-dal

two-legged

(lenited dad-dal), pl. tad-dail.

melui

adjective. lovely, sweet

This word only occurs in the place name Imloth Melui, a vale where roses grew

lelya

delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely

lelya (2) adj. "delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely" (PE17:139, 151)

melwa

lovely

melwa adj. "lovely" (LT1:262); compare melda in Tolkiens later Quenya.

írima

lovely, beautiful, desirable

írima adj. "lovely, beautiful, desirable" (ID, FS, PE17:155), in FS also pl. írimar; in the "Qenya" of Fíriel's Song, adjectives in -a form their plurals in -ar instead of -ë as in LotR-style Quenya.