yaru noun "gloom, blight" (GL:37)
Quenya
lumbë
gloom, shadow
yaru
gloom, blight
Noldorin
maur
noun. gloom
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).
ogol < ogl
gloom
n/adj gloom, gloomy
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.
Telerin
fuinë
noun. gloom
Sindarin
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
dim
gloom
(i dhim) (sadness), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nim). Note: a homophone means ”stair”.
fuin
gloom
(darkness, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form.
maur
gloom
(i vaur), pl. moer (i moer) (VT45:35)
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Qenya
lumbe
noun. gloom, shadow
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “gloom, shadow” derived from the root ᴹ√LUM (Ety/LUM). It was an element in the name ᴹQ. Hísilumbe for N./S. Hithlum, more typically given as Q. Hísilómë. However, both the root √LUM “shadow” and derived Quenya words like Q. lumbulë “heavy shadow” continued to appear in Tolkien’s later writings (PE17/168; RGEO/59), so I suspect lumbe may remain valid as well.
Conceptual Development: A possible precursor is ᴱQ. lōmin “shade, shadow” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√LOMO (QL/55).
ungwe
noun. gloom
Middle Primitive Elvish
ungwē
noun. gloom
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.
lumbë noun "gloom, shadow" (LUM)