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men-

go

#men- (4) vb. "go" (VT47:11, cf. VT42:30, VT49:23), attested in the aorist (menë) in the sentence imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië "between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon". In the verb nanwen- "return" (or go/come back), -men- is changed to -wen- following nan- "back" (etymological form cited as nan-men-, PE17:166). In examples from VT49:23, 24, Tolkien used men- in the sense of "go as far as": 1st person sg. aorist menin (menin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist menë, present tense ména- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense mennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative (mennen sís "I arrive[d] here"), perfect eménië "has just arrived", future menuva "will arrive". All of these examples were first written with the verb as ten- rather than men-, Tolkien then emending the initial consonant.

men-

verb. to go, proceed, move (generally); to come, arrive

Changes

  • men-men- “go, come” ✧ PE17/013

Derivations

  • MEN “go, move, proceed (in any direction); make for, go towards; have as object, (in)tend; direction, object, point moved toward; region” ✧ VT49/23

Element in

  • Q. alamen “good omen on departure”
  • Q. Haimenar “*Far-farer”
  • Q. Ambarmenië “Way of the World”
  • Q. á menë amménië “proceed with more determination” ✧ PE17/094; PE17/094
  • Q. Ermenië “One Beginning”
  • ᴺQ. etemen- “to go out, go forth”
  • Q. imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië “between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon” ✧ VT47/11
  • ᴺQ. menemma “movie, motion picture”
  • Q. mennen sís “I arrive[d] here” ✧ VT49/24
  • Q. menta- “to send, cause to go (in a desired direction)”
  • Q. menta- “have as object[ive], (in)tend, proceed, make for, go towards” ✧ PE17/013
  • Q. mentië “passage, journey, direction of travel” ✧ PE17/013
  • Q. nanwen- “to return, go/come back”
  • Q. omen- “to move to a common point, meet, to meet, move to a common point, *(lit.) move together” ✧ PE17/013
  • Q. omentië “meeting (of pathways), (lit.) coming together of journey-path, meeting or junction of the directions of two people” ✧ PE17/013
  • Q. quiquië menin coaryanna, arsë “whenever I arrive at his house/come to/get to, he is out” ✧ VT49/24
  • Q. vá ménanyë “I am not coming (I say)” ✧ PE22/162
  • Q. vá meninyë ó le “I won’t come with you” ✧ PE22/162
  • Q. yá hríve menë, ringa ná “when winter comes/arrives/is with us, it is cold” ✧ VT49/24
  • Q. yomenië “meeting, gathering, meeting, gathering, *congress”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
men- > mēna-[mēna-]✧ VT49/23
Quenya [PE17/013; PE17/016; PE17/094; PE22/162; VT47/11; VT49/24] Group: Eldamo. Published by

men-

verb. go; come [to any point other than the ’here’ of the speaker]

Quenya [PE 22:162] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

ména

region

ména noun "region" (MEN). Not to be confused with the present/continuative tense of #men- "go".

lenna-

go

lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.

mentië

passage, journey, direction of travel

mentië noun "passage, journey, direction of travel" (PE17:13); the elements are men- "go, proceed" + tië "path, road". Not to be confused with the gerund of menta- #1.

nanwen-

return

nanwen- vb. "return" (go/come back) (PE17:166). The etymological form nan-men- indicates that the second element is #men- "go", changed to -wen- following nan- "back"; hence the perfect should perhaps be *naneménië.

entulessë

return

entulessë noun "return" (UT:171)

entulessë

proper name. Return

The name of the Númerórean ship that was the first to return to Middle-earth, six centuries after Númenor was settled (UT/171). It is the noun entulessë “return” used as a name.

Elements

WordGloss
entulessë“return”
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entulessë

noun. return

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
entul-“to come again, *return”
-ssë“abstract noun”

Variations

  • Entulessë ✧ UT/171

lelya-

go, proceed (in any direction), travel

lelya- (1) vb. "go, proceed (in any direction), travel", pa.t. lendë / elendë (WJ:363, VT14:5, PE17:139) At one point Tolkien assigned a more specific meaning to the underlying root LED: "go away from the speaker or the point in mind, depart" (PE17:52), which would make lelya- a near synonym of auta-. The same source denies that the derivatives of _LED _were used simply for "go, move, travel", but elsewhere Tolkien assigns precisely that meaning to lelya-.

vanya-

go, depart, disappear

vanya- (2) vb. "go, depart, disappear", pa.t. vannë (WAN). The verb auta- may have replaced this word in Tolkien's later conception.

yón

noun. region

Yón

region, any (fairly extensive) region between obstacles such as rivers or mountains

yón (2), variant of yondë, q.v. Defined as "a region, any (fairly extensive) region _between obstacles such as rivers or mountains" (PE17:43)_

lango

passage

lango (2) noun "passage", especially across or over an obstacle, also "neck" (PE17:92)