morqua adj. "black" (LT1:261; rather morna in LotR-style Quenya)
Quenya
morë
black
morqua
black
morë
black
morqua
black
morqua adj. "black" (LT1:261; rather morna in LotR-style Quenya)
morn-
black
mor-
black
morn
adjective. black, dark
morn
adjective. black
morn
noun/adjective. black, dark; night
Cognates
- Q. morna “black, dark; black of hair, black, dark; black of hair; [ᴹQ.] sombre, gloomy” ✧ Let/382
Derivations
Element in
- S. Aravorn
- S. Eryn Vorn “Dark Wood” ✧ RC/lxv
- S. galvorn “type of dark metal devised by Eöl, *(lit.) shining-black”
- S. Helevorn “Black Glass” ✧ PE17/037
- S. Lacho calad! Drego morn! “Flame light! Flee night!” ✧ UT/065
- S. Morben “*Dark-folk” ✧ WJ/362
- S. morchant “shadow cast by light, (lit.) dark shape” ✧ VT42/09
- S. Mordor “Black Land” ✧ Let/427
- S. Morgai “Black Fence” ✧ PE17/101
- S. morgul “black arts, sorcery, necromancy” ✧ PE17/031; PE17/125
- S. Moria “Black Chasm, Black Pit” ✧ PE17/035
- S. Mormegil “Black Sword”
- S. Mornan “Dark Valley”
- ᴺS. mornechui “coffee”
- S. Mornedhel “Dark-elf”
- S. Morthond “Blackroot”
- S. Ras Morthil “Andrast”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶mornā > morn [mornā] > [morna] > [morn] ✧ Let/382 ✶mornā > morn- [mornā] > [morna] > [morn] ✧ WJ/362 Variations
- morn- ✧ WJ/362
mor
black
_adj. _black.
môr
black
1) môr (dark), lenited vôr, pl. mŷr (Letters:382), also morn (dark), pl. myrn, lenited #vorn. Note: the word is also used as a noun ”darkness, night”. (Letters:386) The lenited form #vorn appears, compounded, in the name of the
môr
black
(dark), lenited vôr, pl. m**ŷr (Letters:382), also morn (dark), pl. **myrn, lenited #vorn. Note: the word is also used as a noun ”darkness, night”. (Letters:386) The lenited form #vorn appears, compounded, in the name of the
galvorn
black metal
(i ’alvorn), pl. gelvyrn (i ngelvyrn = i ñelvyrn) if there is a pl. (WJ:322). 2) donn (swart, swarty, shady, shadowy) (lenited dhonn, pl. dynn). (VT45:11). Also dunn- in compounds.
dunna
adjective. black
This might seem to be derived from dunnâ, sc. the stem DUN "dark (of colour)" (LR:355) either with the adjectival ending -nâ or with medial fortification n > nn and the simpler adjectival ending -â. However, other Nandorin words seem to have lost their final -â's, e.g. ealc "swan" from alk-wâ, and (to quote a wholly parallel example) cogn "bow" from ku3nâ. The descendant form is not cogna with the final vowel intact as the case would seem to be in dunna. However, primitive -ô does come out as -a in Nandorin, cf. golda "Noldo" from ñgolodô, so a form dunnô might be capable of yielding dunna, but this primitive form would rather be a noun "dark person/thing", since primitive -ô, -nô are nominal rather than adjectival endings. Of course, Nandorin may have turned an original noun into an adjective, or developed an adjectival ending -a afresh. But all things considered *dunnâ still appears to be the best reconstruction of the primitive form.
The words dunna and scella raise the question of whether original final -â is actually preserved as -a following double consonants (as opposed to clusters of different consonants) in Nandorin.
narâg
adjective. black
Derivatives
- S. Narog ✧ PE17/037; PE17/047
Element in
- Kh. Narag-zâram “*Black Lake” ✧ PE17/037; RS/466
- Kh. Nargûn “Mordor” ✧ PE17/037; RS/466
- Kh. Nar(u)kuthûn ✧ PE17/047
Variations
- Narâg ✧ PE17/037
- naruka ✧ PE17/047 (naruka)
mori
adjective. black
Derivations
- √MOR “black, dark, darkness” ✧ Let/382
Derivatives
Element in
- ✶morikwende “*Dark-elf, [ᴹ✶] Dark-elf”
- ✶Moriñgotho “Black Foe” ✧ PE19/081
- ᴺS. merifind “Black-haired”
Variations
- morĭ ✧ PE19/081
morn
adjective. black, dark
morn
adjective. black
Cognates
- ᴹQ. morna “gloomy, sombre” ✧ Ety/MOR
Derivations
- ᴹ√MOR “*black, dark” ✧ Ety/MOR
Element in
- N. Eredvyrn “Black Mountains” ✧ TI/124
- N. Helevorn “Black Glass”
- N. Elivorn “Lake-Black” ✧ Ety/MOR
- N. i vegli vorn “the black bear” ✧ PE22/033
- N.
Maglavorn“Black-sword” ✧ Ety/MOR (maglavorn)- N. meglivorn “blackbear” ✧ Ety/MOR; EtyAC/LIS (
morn) (mormagli); EtyAC/MAT (Mormagli); EtyAC/MAT (Meglivorn)- N. Mornennyn “Gates of Mordor” ✧ WR/113
- N. Mordu “*Black Night”
- N. morgul “sorcery” ✧ EtyAC/ÑGOL
- N. Moria “Black Gulf”
- N. Mormegil “Black-sword”
- N. Mornvenniath “Black Mountains”
- N. Morthond “Blackroot”
- N. Morthu “*Black Stench”
- N. Morwen
- N. Nann Orothvor “Vale of Black Horror”
- N. Nelig Myrn “Teeth of Mordor” ✧ WR/113
- N.
Naglath Morn“Teeth of Mordor” ✧ WR/122 (Naglath Morn)Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MOR > morn [morna] > [morn] ✧ Ety/MOR Variations
- moru ✧ EtyAC/MOR
- Morn ✧ WR/113; WR/122 (
Morn)
môr
adjective. black
Cognates
- ᴹQ. more “black, dark” ✧ Ety/MOR
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mori > môr [mori] > [more] > [mor] > [mōr] ✧ Ety/MOR
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dunn
adjective. black
A Doriathrin adjective meaning “black” (Ety/DUN). Its Noldorin and Danian cognates imply development from a primitive form ✱✶dunnā. Since the primitive form ended in [a], the Ilkorin a-affection would ordinarily have produced ✱✱donn. However, it seems that a-affection was prevented or reversed before [nn], as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Doriathrin/dunn).
Cognates
- N. donn “swart, swarthy; shady, shadowy” ✧ Ety/DUN
Derivations
- ᴹ√DUN “dark (of colour)” ✧ Ety/DUN; Ety/ÑGOROTH
Element in
- Ilk. Nan Dungorthin “Vale of Black Horror” ✧ Ety/DUN; Ety/ÑGOROTH
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DUN > dunn [dunnā] > [dunna] > [donna] > [dunna] > [dunn] ✧ Ety/DUN
dunna
adjective. black
An adjective for “black” developed from the root ᴹ√DUN (Ety/DUN). It most likely developed from primitive ✱✶dunnā given its cognates, as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Nandorin/dunna). It is a counter-example to Danian a-affection, perhaps indicating that this change was prevented or reverted before nasal clusters as was the case in Ilkorin.
Cognates
- N. donn “swart, swarthy; shady, shadowy” ✧ Ety/DUN
Derivations
- ᴹ√DUN “dark (of colour)” ✧ Ety/DUN
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√DUN > dunna [dunnā] > [dunna] ✧ Ety/DUN
mori
adjective. black
Derivations
- ᴹ√MOR “*black, dark” ✧ Ety/MOR
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹ✶morikwende “Dark-elf”
colw
adjective. black
Changes
colb→ colw ✧ GL/26Variations
- colb ✧ GL/26 (
colb)
morna
adjective. black
Changes
morwa→ morna ✧ QL/062Derivations
- ᴱ√MORO “*black, dark” ✧ LT1A/Mornië; QL/062
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√MORO > morna [mornā] > [morna] ✧ QL/062 Variations
- morqa ✧ LT1A/Mornië; QL/062
- morwa ✧ QL/063 (
morwa)
morqa
adjective. black
morë adj. "black" (MOR), "dark, darkness" (Letters:282). In compounds the stem-form mori- (q.v.) appears, since the primitive form was ¤mori.