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

two-legged

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

tad-dal

biped

(also as adj. ”two-legged”) *tad-dal (i dad-dal, o thad-dal), pl. tad-dail (i thad-dail)

tad-dal

biped

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

tad-dal

two-legged

(adj. and noun ”biped”) tad-dal (lenited dad-dal), pl. tad-dail.

bain

adjective. beautiful, fair

bain

beautiful

_ adj. _beautiful. Q. vanya.

melui

adjective. lovely, sweet

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

tad

cardinal. two

tad-dal

noun/adjective. biped, two-legged animal

tâd

cardinal. two

tâd

cardinal. two

The usual Sindarin word for “two” derived from ✶tata, a variant of √ATATA that was the basis for Q. atta “two” (PE17/14; VT42/27; Ety/TATA). It appears with both a short vowel as tad and a long vowel as tâd. I think the long-vowel form is the most correct one, but the short-vowel form is used for prefixes or when the word is not emphasized in a phrase.

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. atha “two”, but this was deleted and revised to G. atha as the “pl. 3rd person pronoun” (GL/20) and no new word for “two” was given.

bain

beautiful

bain (fair). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

bain

beautiful

(fair). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

tâd

cardinal. two

1. tâd (in compounds tad-, as in tad-dal ”two-legged”), 2) (adjectival prefix) ui- (twi-, both).

tâd

two

(in compounds tad-, as in tad-dal ”two-legged”)

ui

two

(twi-, both).

atta

cardinal. two

atta (1) cardinal "two" (AT(AT), Letters:427, VT42:26, 27, VT48:6, 19). Elen atta "two stars" (VT49:44); notice how a noun is indeclinable before this numeral, and any case endings are "singular" and added to the numeral rather than the noun, e.g. genitive elen atto "of two stars" (VT49:45). Attalyar "Bipeds" (sg. *Attalya) = Petty-dwarves (from Sindarin Tad-dail) (WJ:389). A word atta_ "again" was struck out; see the entry _TAT in Etym and cf. ata in this list.

atta

cardinal. two

This is the usual Quenya counting number for “two”, derived from √ATATA (VT42/27; VT48/19), which in turn is based on √AT “bi-, double, again (a second time)” (PE17/148, 166). It may be contrasted with yúyo “both” referring to both elements of a pair.

Conceptual Development: There was no word for “two” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s. In the Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s, ᴱQ. yúyo meant “two” and ᴱQ. {satta >>} satto meant “both” (PE14/49, 82). By The Etymologies of the 1930s, these meanings were reversed with ᴹQ. atta “two” appearing under ᴹ√ATTA and ᴹQ. yúyo “both” appearing under ᴹ√YŪ (Ety/ATTA, YŪ).

attalaitë

biped

attalaitë adj. "biped" (having two feet) (VT49:42, PE12:88)

calwa

beautiful

calwa ("k") adj. "beautiful" (LT1:254)

lelya

delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely

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

mairëa

beautiful

mairëa adj. "beautiful" (of things made by art) (PE17:163). An alternative (and peculiar) form "mairia" is also implied in the source.

melwa

lovely

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

mírya

beautiful

mírya adj. "beautiful" (of work of art only) (PE17:165)

satto

cardinal. two

satto, "Qenya" numeral "two" (in Tolkiens later Quenya atta) (VT49:54)

vanima

beautiful, fair

vanima adj. "beautiful, fair" (BAN, VT39:14) (glossed "proper, right, fair" in early "Qenya", LT1:272, though a later source says the word is used "only of living things, especially Elves and Men", PE17:150); nominal pl. vanimar "beautiful ones", partitive pl. genitive vanimálion, translated "of beautiful children", but literally meaning *"of [some] beautiful ones") (LotR3:VI ch. 6, translated in Letters:308). Arwen vanimalda "Beautiful Arwen", literally "Arwen your beauty" (see -lda for reference; changed to Arwen vanimelda in the second edition of LotR; see vanimelda).

vanima

adjective. beautiful

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.

bein

adjective. beautiful, fair

tad

cardinal. two

tâd

cardinal. two

tâd

cardinal. two

satta

noun. two

The Adûnaic number “two” (SD/428). It seems likely that it is related to Q. atta “two”, as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (AAD/22), though it is unclear how the initial s- might have developed in the Adûnaic. It may also be related to the Adûnaic dual suffix -at, as suggested by Andreas Moehn (EotAL/SAT).

(a)tata

cardinal. two

atata

root. two, two; [ᴹ√] again, back

atta

cardinal. two

banya

adjective. beautiful

tata

masculine name. Two

tata

cardinal. two