*notto (ñ)noun "enemy", reconstructed simplex form of the second element of the Moringotto "Dark Enemy", a Quenya form of Morgoth(VT49:25). Compare #cotto.
Quenya
morikotto
masculine name. *Dark Enemy
Changes
Morñoþo→ Morñot/Morños ✧ PE19/081Moringotto→ Morikotto ✧ VT49/24- Morikotto → Melcor ✧ VT49/24
Cognates
- S. Morgoth “Black Foe, Dark Foe, Black Enemy, Dark Tyrant” ✧ VT49/24
Derivations
- ✶Moriñgotho “Black Foe” ✧ PE19/081
Element in
- Q. i hyarma tentanë Melcorello “the left hand pointed away from Melkor” ✧ VT49/24; VT49/24; VT49/24
Elements
Word Gloss morë “dark, black; darkness, night, dark, black; darkness, [ᴹQ.] blackness, [Q.] night” cotto “*enemy” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶Morñoþŏ > Morñot/Morños [morŋoθo] > [morŋoθ] > [morgoθ] > [morgot] > [morgos] ✧ PE19/081 Variations
- Morñot/Morños ✧ PE19/081
- Morñoþo ✧ PE19/081 (
Morñoþo)- Moringotto ✧ VT49/24 (
Moringotto)
morños
masculine name. *Dark Enemy
notto
enemy
morĭ
adjective. dark
PQ. dark
cotto
enemy
#cotto ("k")noun "enemy", isolated from Moricotto "Dark Enemy", a Quenya form of Morgoth(VT49:25). Compare cotumo, *notto.
mori-
dark, black
mori- "dark, black" in a number of compounds (independent form morë, q.v.):Morimando "Dark Mando" = Mandos (MBAD, VT45:33), morimaitë "black-handed" (LotR3:VI ch. 6, VT49:42). Moriquendi "Dark Elves" (SA:mor, WJ:361, 373), Moringotto "Black Foe", Sindarin Morgoth, later name of Melkor. The oldest form is said to have been Moriñgotho (MR:194). In late material, Tolkien is seen to consider both Moringotto and Moricotto _("k") _as the Quenya form of the name Morgoth (VT49:24-25; Moricotto also appears in the ablative, Moricottollo). Morion "the dark one", a title of Morgoth (FS). Morifinwë "dark Finwë", masc. name; he was called Caranthir in Sindarin (short Quenya name Moryo). (PM:353) In the name Morinehtar, translated "Darkness-slayer", the initial element is defined would thus seem to signify "darkness" rather than "dark" as an adjective (see mórë). (PM:384, 385)
morna
dark, black
morna adj. "dark, black" (Letters:282, LT1:261; also used of black hair, PE17:154), or "gloomy, sombre" (MOR). Used as noun in the phrase mi…morna of someone clad "in…black" (PE17:71). In tumbalemorna (Letters:282), q.v. Pl. mornë in Markirya**(the first version of this poem had "green rocks", MC:215, changed to ondolisse mornë** "upon dark rocks" in the final version; see MC:220, note 8).
móri
dark
móri adj. "dark" (MC:221; this is "Qenya"; in Tolkien's later Quenya mórë, morë)
Melkor
mighty-rising
Melkor (spelt Melcor in VT49:6, 24, MR:362), masc. name: the rebellious Vala, the devil of the Silmarillion mythos. Older (MET) form Melkórë "Mighty-rising" (hence the interpretation "He that arises in power"), compare órë #2. Oldest Q form *mbelekōro (WJ:402). Ablative Melkorello/Melcorello, VT49:7, 24. Compounded in Melkorohíni "Children of Melkor", Orcs ("but the wiser say: nay, the slaves of Melkor; but not his children, for Melkor had no children") (MR:416). The form Melkoro- here occurring may incorporate either the genitive ending -o or the otherwise lost final vowel of the ancient form ¤mbelekōro. For Melkors later name, see Moringotto / Moricotto (Morgoth) under mori-.
cotumo
enemy
cotumo ("k")noun "enemy" (KOT > KOTH)
hróva
dark, dark brown
hróva adj. "dark, dark brown", used to refer to hair (PE17:154)
lóna
dark
?lóna (4) adj. "dark" (DO3/DŌ). If this is to be the cognate of "Noldorin"/Sindarin dûr, as the context seems to indicate, lóna is likely a misreading for *lóra in Tolkien's manuscript.
lúrëa
dark, overcast
lúrëa adj. "dark, overcast" (LT1:259)
núla
dark, occult, mysterious
núla ("ñ")adj. "dark, occult, mysterious" (PE17:125)
lúna
dark
lúna adj. *"dark" in Lúnaturco and Taras Lúna, Quenya names of Barad-dûr (Dark Tower). (PE17:22). In the Etymologies, lúnë "blue" was changed by Tolkien from lúna (VT45:29).
ulca
adjective. dark
dark, gloomy, sinister
nulla
dark, dusky, obscure
nulla adj. "dark, dusky, obscure" (NDUL), "secret" (DUL). See also VT45:11.
The Quenya equivalent of S. Morgoth (VT49/24). It is a compound of morë (mori-) “dark” and cotto “enemy”. It is unlikely this name was much used, and is interesting primarily in shining a light on the etymology of Morgoth.
Conceptual Development: @@@ finish after completing phonology.