Quenya 

tar

adverb. thither

PQ. thither

Quenya [PE 19:104] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

tar

thither

tar (1) adv. or technically pron. with old allative ending: "thither" (TA). This is ta #1 with the same allative ending -r (from primitive -da) as in mir "into". Compare tanna. According to VT49:11, tar may also appear in the logner form tara.

tara

thither

tara adv. "thither"; see tar #1.

yaru

gloom, blight

yaru noun "gloom, blight" (GL:37)

lumbë

gloom, shadow

lumbë noun "gloom, shadow" (LUM)

tamen

thither

tamen adv. "thither" (VT49:33). Compare simen.

tamen

adverb. thither

tande

thither

tande adv. "thither" (MC:215; this is "Qenya")

tanna

thither

tanna (2) pron. in allative "thither" (VT14:5, PE16:96; evidently to be understood as the allative of ta #2: "to that [place]"). Compare tar and locative tassë.

tanna

adverb. thither

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
ta“that, there, that, there, [ᴹQ.] it”

Variations

  • tanna ✧ PE16/096; PE16/096

tar(a)

adverb. thither, thither; [ᴹQ.] beyond

Derivations

  • ✶tad(a) “thither, thereto, to that” ✧ PE19/104

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
✶tad > tar[tad] > [tað] > [tar]✧ PE19/104

Variations

  • tar ✧ PE19/104
  • tăr ✧ VT49/11
  • tăra ✧ VT49/11
  • tamen ✧ VT49/33
Quenya [PE19/104; VT49/11; VT49/33] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ló

night, a night

ló (1) noun "night, a night" (DO3/DŌ, VT45:28)

Fui

night

Fui noun "Night" (PHUY) - variant Hui, which form is probably to be preferred in light of Tolkien's later insight that the related word fuinë (see below) is actually Telerin, the proper Quenya form being huinë.

Hui

night

Hui noun "Night" (PHUY), in earlier "Qenya" defined as "evening" _(MC:214) or"fog, dark, murk, night" (LT1:253)._

mori

night

mori noun "night" (LT1:261, in Tolkien's later Quenya mórë, morë)

olo

night

?olo (reading uncertain), possibly a synonym of ló #1, hence noun "night" (VT45:28)

Sindarin 

taw

adverb. thither

Derivations

  • ✶tad(a) “thither, thereto, to that” ✧ PE19/104

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
✶tad > tað > tā > taw[tad] > [tā] > [tǭ] > [tau]✧ PE19/104

Variations

  • taw ✧ PE19/104
Sindarin [PE19/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

dû

night

_ n. _night (when viewed favourably). Q. lóme.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:152] < _dōmē _< DOM. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

fuin

noun. night, dead of night, gloom, darkness

Sindarin [Ety/354, Ety/382, S/431] Group: SINDICT. Published by

fuin

gloom

(darkness, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form.

morn

night

(i vorn) (darkness), pl. myrn (i myrn). Note: the word is also used as an adjective ”dark, black” (Letters:386).

daw

gloom

1) daw (i dhaw) (nighttime), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath; 2) dim (i dhim) (sadness), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nim). Note: a homophone means ”stair”. 3) fuin (darkness, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form. 4) maur (i vaur), pl. moer (i moer) (VT45:35)

daw

gloom

(i dhaw) (nighttime), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath

daw

nighttime

daw (i dhaw) (gloom), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath.

daw

nighttime

daw (i dhaw) (gloom), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath.

daw

nighttime

(i dhaw) (gloom), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath.

dúath

nightshade

(i dhúath) (dark shadow), pl. dúaith (i núaith).

dim

gloom

(i dhim) (sadness), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nim). Note: a homophone means ”stair”.

dû

night

1) dû (i dhû) (nightfall, dusk, late evening, darkness), pl. dui (i nui) (SD:302), 2) morn (i vorn) (darkness), pl. myrn (i myrn). Note: the word is also used as an adjective ”dark, black” (Letters:386).

dû

night

(i dhû) (nightfall, dusk, late evening, darkness), pl. dui (i nui) (SD:302)

maur

gloom

(i vaur), pl. moer (i moer) (VT45:35)

fuin

night, nightshade, dead of night

(gloom, darkness). No distinct pl. form.

tinnu

early night without a moon

(i dinnu, o thinnu) (dusk, twilight), pl. tinny (i thynny) if there is a pl.

Telerin 

fuinë

noun. gloom

Cognates

  • Q. huinë “gloom, (unrelieved) darkness, deep shadow, night shade; dark (as a substance)” ✧ VT41/08

Variations

  • fuine ✧ VT41/08

Adûnaic

dâur

noun. gloom

A noun translated as “gloom” derived from the root √DAWAR (SD/423). It is an example of how primitive [[ad|[w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally]], thereby producing diphthongs.

Derivations

  • ✶Ad. dāw’r “gloom” ✧ SD/423
    • √Ad. DAWAR “*gloom” ✧ SD/423

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
✶Ad. dāw’r > dâur[dāwr] > [dāur]✧ SD/423

Noldorin 

daw

noun. night-time, gloom

Noldorin [Ety/354] Group: SINDICT. Published by

daw

noun. night-time, gloom

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Derivations

  • On. doume “night-time, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
    • ᴹ✶doʒmē
    • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOMO
    • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
On. doume > daw[doume] > [daume] > [daum] > [dauv] > [dau]✧ Ety/DOƷ
Noldorin [Ety/DOƷ; EtyAC/LOƷ; PE22/035] Group: Eldamo. Published by

maur

noun. gloom

Noldorin [Ety/373] Group: SINDICT. Published by

maur

noun. gloom

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “gloom” appearing under the root ᴹ√MOR (Ety/MOR). A nearby primitive form ᴹ✶mǭri is the likely basis for this word as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/MOR), where the primitive ǭ became au as was the usual sound change in both Noldorin and later Sindarin (PE18/46, 96).

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. móre “blackness, dark, night” ✧ Ety/MOR

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶mǭri “blackness, dark, night” ✧ EtyAC/MOR
    • ᴹ√MOR “*black, dark” ✧ Ety/MOR

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶mǭri > maur[mǭri] > [mǭre] > [moure] > [maure] > [maur]✧ EtyAC/MOR

fuin

noun. night, dead of night, gloom, darkness

Noldorin [Ety/354, Ety/382, S/431] Group: SINDICT. Published by

ogol < ogl

gloom

n/adj gloom, gloomy

Noldorin Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

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Primitive adûnaic

dāw’r

noun. gloom

A Primitive Adûnaic word glossed “gloom” (SD/423), the only attested example of a single-vowel-form for a triconsonantal-root. Ordinarily such a form would not be possible, since final consonant clusters did not appear in Primitive Adûnaic (SD/418, 426). It is possible that such forms were valid in the case of medial semi-vowels [w] and [j], however, since [[ad|[w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally]], thereby preventing a cluster from forming.

Derivations

  • √Ad. DAWAR “*gloom” ✧ SD/423

Derivatives

  • Ad. dâur “gloom” ✧ SD/423

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√Ad. DAWAR > dāw’r[dāwr]✧ SD/423
Primitive adûnaic [SD/423] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

tanna

adverb. thither

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
ta“that, it”

ungwe

noun. gloom

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶ungwē “gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG
    • ᴹ√UÑG “*gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶uñgwē > ungwe[uŋgwē] > [uŋgwe]✧ Ety/UÑG

Variations

  • uñgwe ✧ PE22/051
Qenya [Ety/UÑG; EtyAC/UÑG; PE22/022; PE22/051] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hui

proper name. Night

A name for (Primordial?) Night appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√PHUY, along with its (archaic?) variant Fui (Ety/PHUY).

Conceptual Development: This name is most likely a remnant of the name ᴱQ. Fui from the earliest Lost Tales, where it was another name for the goddess ᴱQ. Nienna (LT1/66, LT1A/Fui). According to the Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons from the 1910s, this earlier version of the name is derived from the root ᴱ√ǶUẎU (GL/36, QL/38).

Derivations

  • ᴹ√PHUY “*darkness” ✧ Ety/PHUY

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√PHUY > Fui > Hui[pʰui] > [ɸui] > [hui]✧ Ety/PHUY

núre

noun. night

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)”

Element in

Doriathrin

daum

noun. night-time, gloom

A noun meaning “night-time, gloom”, derived from root ᴹ√DOƷ (Ety/DOƷ). The development of its Noldorin and Quenya cognates point to a primitive form of ᴹ✶doʒmē [doɣmē] (Ety/DOƷ, DOMO). This word probably underwent development similar to its Noldorin cognate N. daw but with the retention of the final [-m]: ✶doʒmē > dogme > doume > Ilk. daum. The word Ilk. caun has an attested development that also follows this pattern (Ety/KUƷ). Helge Fauskanger suggested this same phonological history in his study of Ilkorin (Al-Ilkorin/daum).

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶doʒmē
    • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOMO
  • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√DOƷ/DÔ > daum[doɣmē] > [doɣme] > [dogme] > [doume] > [doum] > [daum]✧ Ety/DOƷ
Doriathrin [Ety/DOƷ] Group: Eldamo. Published by

môr

noun. night

A noun for “night” derived from primitive ᴹ✶mǭri (EtyAC/MOR), where the primitive [[ilk|[ǭ] became [ō]]].

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. móre “blackness, dark, night” ✧ Ety/MOR

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶mǭri “blackness, dark, night” ✧ EtyAC/MOR
    • ᴹ√MOR “*black, dark” ✧ Ety/MOR

Element in

  • Ilk. myrilind “nightingale” ✧ Ety/MOR

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶mǭri > môr[mǭri] > [mǭre] > [mōre] > [mōr]✧ EtyAC/MOR
Doriathrin [Ety/MOR] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Old Noldorin 

doume

noun. night-time, gloom

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶doʒmē
    • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOMO
  • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Derivatives

  • N. daw “night-time, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√DOƷ/DÔ > dogme > dongme > doume[doɣme] > [dogme] > [doŋme] > [doume]✧ Ety/DOƷ

Variations

  • dougme ✧ EtyAC/DOƷ/DÔ
Old Noldorin [Ety/DOƷ; EtyAC/DOƷ/DÔ] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tō

adverb. thither

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. tar “thither, beyond” ✧ PE21/58

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TA “that” ✧ Ety/TA
  • ᴹ✶tad “thither” ✧ PE19/052; PE21/58
    • ᴹ√TA “that” ✧ Ety/TA

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√TA > tō[tad] > [tā] > [tǭ]✧ Ety/TA
ᴹ✶tad > tā > tō[tad] > [tā] > [tǭ]✧ PE19/052
ᴹ✶tā̆d > tō[tad] > [tā] > [tǭ]✧ PE21/58

Variations

  • tó ✧ EtyAC/TA
Old Noldorin [Ety/TA; EtyAC/TA; PE19/052; PE21/58] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

tad

adverb. thither

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TA “that” ✧ Ety/TA

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. tar “thither, beyond” ✧ Ety/TA; PE19/052; PE21/58
  • On. tō “thither” ✧ PE19/052; PE21/58

Variations

  • tā̆d ✧ PE21/58
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/TA; PE19/052; PE21/58] Group: Eldamo. Published by

doʒ

root. night

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “night” that (along with ᴹ√DOM) was the basis for the ᴹQ. lóme/N. dû “night” (Ety/DOƷ). It replaced some rejected variants ᴹ√LOƷ and ᴹ√DAW (EtyAC/LOƷ). Many of the derivatives of ᴹ√DOƷ were later assigned to other roots: N. dûr “dark” became S. dûr “dark” < √NDU “under, down” in notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/152) and ᴹQ. lóna “dark” became Q. lúna (PE17/22). There are no signs of ᴹQ. ló “night” and N. daw “night-time, gloom” in Tolkien’s later writing. Future derivations of Q. lómë/S. dû only mention the root √DOM (PE17/152; PE22/153) and thus ᴹ√DOƷ may have been abandoned.

In a message to the Elfling mailing list from July 2012 (Elfling/362.96), David Salo suggested there might be a later root ✱√DU serving as the basis for Q. lúna “dark” and Q. lúmë “darkness”, though the latter might instead be from √LUM. Such a root ✱√DU is not attested in Tolkien writings, but if it existed, it could be a later iteration of ᴹ√DOƷ. Another possible example of the root ✱√DU is primitive ✶durnŭ “dark of hue”.

Derivatives

  • Ilk. daum “night-time, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
  • ᴹ✶doʒmē ✧ Ety/DOMO
    • Ilk. daum “night-time, gloom”
    • On. doume “night-time, gloom”
    • N. daw “night-time, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
  • ᴹQ. ló “night, a night” ✧ Ety/DOƷ; EtyAC/LOƷ
  • ᴹQ. lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ; Ety/LUM
    • Ad. lômi “(pleasant) night” ✧ SD/415
  • ᴹQ. lóna “dark” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
  • N. dû “night, night-fall, late evening” ✧ Ety/DOƷ; Ety/DYEL; Ety/DOMO
  • N. dúlin(n) “nightingale” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
  • N. dûr “dark” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
  • On. doume “night-time, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ
    • N. daw “night-time, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Element in

  • Ilk. durgul “sorcery”
  • N. daw “night-time, gloom” ✧ EtyAC/LOƷ (daw)
  • N. Delduthling “Ungoliant, *(lit.) Horror Night Spider” ✧ Ety/DYEL; Ety/SLIG; Ety/UÑG
  • N. Dureledh “Dark-elf” ✧ Ety/MOR
  • N. Durion “Dark-elf” ✧ Ety/MOR
  • N. Magladhûr “Black-sword” ✧ Ety/MAK (DOƷ)

Variations

  • DOƷ/DÔ ✧ Ety/DOƷ
  • DOG ✧ Ety/UÑG
  • LOƷ ✧ EtyAC/LOƷ (LOƷ)
  • DAW ✧ EtyAC/LOƷ (DAW)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/DOƷ; Ety/DOMO; Ety/DYEL; Ety/LUM; Ety/MAK; Ety/MOR; Ety/NDŪ; Ety/SLIG; Ety/UÑG; EtyAC/LOƷ; EtyAC/UÑG] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ungwē

noun. gloom

Derivations

  • ᴹ√UÑG “*gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. ungwe “gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG

Variations

  • uñgwē ✧ Ety/UÑG
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/UÑG] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

hant

adverb. thither

fui

noun. night

Cognates

  • Eq. hui “dark, murk, fog; night, evening” ✧ LT1A/Fui; QL/041

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ǶUẎU “*darkness” ✧ GL/36; QL/041

Element in

  • G. fuior “deadly nightshade”
  • G. Durufui “Yule, (lit.) Log-night” ✧ LT1A/Turuhalmë
  • G. Fuil “Queen of the Dark” ✧ GL/36
  • G. Tarn Fui “Door of Night” ✧ LT1A/Tarn Fui

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√fuʒu > fui¹[xʷuɣu] > [fuɣu] > [fuɣ] > [fui]✧ GL/36
ᴱ√ǶUẎU > fui[xʷui] > [fui]✧ QL/041

Variations

  • fui¹ ✧ GL/36
  • Fui ✧ LT1A/Tarn Fui; LT1A/Turuhalmë
Gnomish [GL/36; LT1A/Fui; LT1A/Tarn Fui; LT1A/Turuhalmë; QL/041] Group: Eldamo. Published by

suss

interjection. hush

Variations

  • suss ✧ GL/68

Early Ilkorin

þah

interjection. hush, be silent

Cognates

  • En. daw “hush, be silent” ✧ PE13/142

Derivations

Early Ilkorin [PE13/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

daw

interjection. hush, be silent

Cognates

  • Eilk. þah “hush, be silent” ✧ PE13/142
  • Eq. tá “hush, be silent” ✧ PE13/142
  • Et. tá “hush, be silent” ✧ PE13/142

Derivations

Variations

  • daw! ✧ PE13/142
Early Noldorin [PE13/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

fuin

noun. night

Element in

  • En. Taur-na-Fuin “Deadly Nightshade” ✧ SM/026
  • En. urfuin “nightless” ✧ PE13/156

Variations

  • Fuin ✧ SM/026
Early Noldorin [PE13/143; PE13/156; SM/026] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Solosimpi

tá

interjection. hush, be silent

Changes

  • dá → tá ✧ PE13/142

Cognates

  • En. daw “hush, be silent” ✧ PE13/142

Derivations

Variations

  • dá ✧ PE13/142 (dá)
Solosimpi [PE13/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

tá

interjection. hush, be silent

Cognates

  • En. daw “hush, be silent” ✧ PE13/142

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶da’a > dā > tá[daɣā] > [daɣa] > [dā] > [tā]✧ PE13/142

Variations

  • tá ✧ PE13/142
Early Quenya [PE13/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tande

adverb. thither

Element in

Early Quenya [MC/215; PE16/090; PE16/092] Group: Eldamo. Published by

fui

noun. night

móri

noun. night