Primitive elvish
mō
root. labour, be afflicted
Derivatives
- ✶mōl “slave, slave, [ᴹ✶] thrall” ✧ VT43/31
- Q. mól “slave, slave, [ᴹQ.] thrall” ✧ VT43/31
- ✶mōya- “to toil, labour, be afflicted” ✧ VT43/31
- Q. moia- “to labour, be afflicted, to be afflicted, *be laboured; to labour” ✧ VT43/31
- Q. moia- “to labour, be afflicted, to be afflicted, *be laboured; to labour” ✧ PE17/115
- Q. molda “big, large” ✧ PE17/115
- ᴺQ. mólë “labour, work”
- Q. mólë “*labour, work” ✧ PE17/115
- Q. móna “*womb”
- ᴺS. ammuia- “to work (hard) for, to earn”
- ᴺS. mûn “womb”
Element in
- ᴺQ. omolmë “company, business, enterprise, firm”
Variations
- MBOL ✧ PE17/115 (MBOL); PE17/165 (MBOL)
- BOL ✧ PE17/115 (BOL); PE17/150; PE17/165 (BOL)
- mō ✧ VT43/31
mō
noun. person
Derivatives
- Q. mo “one, anyone, someone, somebody”
Element in
- ✶Elmō “Venus”
(m)bol
root. *labour
mā
noun. hand
Derivations
- ✶maha “hand, the manager” ✧ PE19/074; PE19/102; VT47/06; VT47/07; VT47/35
- √MAH “handle, manage, control, wield; serve, be of use, handle, manage, control, wield; serve, be of use; [ᴹ√] hand; [ᴱ√] grasp” ✧ PE21/70
- √MAG “good (physically); to thrive, be in a good state, good (physically); to thrive, be in a good state; [ᴹ√] use, handle” ✧ VT47/18
Derivatives
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶maʒa > mā [maɣa] > [mā] ✧ VT47/06 Variations
- māh ✧ PE19/102
- mâ ✧ VT47/18; VT47/34 (mâ)
imin
masculine name. One
Element in
- Q. Imillië “Company of Imin”
min
cardinal. one
Derivations
- √MIN “one, first of a series, one, first of a series; [ᴹ√] stand alone, stick out”
Derivatives
- Q. min “one, one, [ᴱQ.] one (in a series), the first”
Element in
Variations
- Min ✧ NM/060
ndorē
noun. land
Derivations
Derivatives
- Q. -ndor “land, country” ✧ SA/dôr
- Q. nór “land” ✧ PE17/106; PE17/107
- Q. nórë “land, country; †people, race, tribe, land, country, [ᴹQ.] region where certain people live, [ᴱQ.] nation; [Q.] †people, race, tribe, [ᴹQ.] folk, [ᴱQ.] family” ✧ PE19/076
- S. dôr “land, land, [N.] region where certain people live, [ᴱN.] country; [G.] people of the land” ✧ PE17/164; SA/dôr; WJ/413
Element in
Variations
- (n)dor ✧ Let/384
- ndōr ✧ PE17/106
- NDŌR/NDŎR- ✧ PE17/107
- ndor ✧ PE17/164; SA/dôr
- ndōrē ✧ PE19/076; VT42/04
ndōro
noun. land
Derivations
- √DOR “hard, tough, dried up, unyielding” ✧ WJ/413
Derivatives
- Q. nór “land” ✧ WJ/413
This root first appeared as unglossed ᴹ√MŌ in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. mól/N. mûl “slave, thrall” and ᴹQ. móta-/N. muda- “labour, toil” (Ety/MŌ). The root √mō was mentioned again in notes associated with 1950s Quenya prayers, where it was glossed “labour, be afflicted” along with verb Q. moia- of similar meaning and noun (Q. or primitive) mōl “slave” < mō-l; Tolkien went on to suggest √mol might be a better root, though he marked it with a “?” (VT43/31).
In notes on “large vs. small” from 1968 Tolkien had (root or verb?) mol- “labour” and (noun?) mōle, followed by MBOL/BOL with derivative Q. molda “big, large”, but this note was crossed through and √(M)BOL “✱large” did not appear in the next list of the large/small roots (PE17/115). Thus I think √MO(L) reverted back to the meaning “labour”.