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!

Early Quenya

moa

noun. sheep

Early Quenya [PME/060; QL/060] Group: Eldamo. Published by

moalin

noun. sheepfold

The word ᴱQ. moalin “sheepfold” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, perhaps a combination of ᴱQ. moa “sheep” and lin “many” (QL/60).

Neo-Quenya: Damien Bador adapted this word as ᴺQ. mámalin using the later word Q. máma for “sheep”.

Early Quenya [QL/060] Group: Eldamo. Published by

moar(do)

noun. shepherd

Early Quenya [PE12/014; QL/060] Group: Eldamo. Published by

suiva

adjective. soughing, moaning

A word appearing as ᴱQ. suiva “soughing, moaning” in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. “noise of wind” (QL/86). The word “soughing” is the present participle of the archaic English verb “sough” meaning “make a moaning, whistling, or rushing sound (of the wind in trees, the sea, etc.)”.

Neo-Quenya: Since Q. “sound of wind” reappeared in later writings (VT47/12), I think ᴺQ. suiva can also be used in Neo-Quenya to describing something with a moaning, wind-like sound.

Early Quenya [QL/086] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mavar(do)

noun. shepherd

This Early Qenya word for “shepherd” had many variant forms: in some cases the first vowel a was preserved as in māvar (alternately mavar, mavardo or māwar) and in other cases it collapsed onto oa as in moar(do), all derived from the early root ᴱ√MAWA (QL/60, 62). This reflects differing phonetic developments for ancient āwa, awá (> āva, avá) vs ắwa (> oa), as discussed in The Qenya Phonology (PE12/14).

Early Quenya [GL/58; LT1A/Telimektar; PE12/014; QL/060; QL/062] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sauve

noun. sheep

Early Quenya [PE16/132] Group: Eldamo. Published by