naer

adjective. dreadful, horrible, unendurable, dreadful, horrible, unendurable; [N.] lamentable, sad

Cognates

• Q. naira “dreadful, horrible, unendurable, dreadful, horrible, unendurable, [ᴱQ.] dire, grievous” ✧ PE17/151

Derivations

• √NAY “cause bitter grief or pain, cause bitter grief or pain, [ᴹ√] lament” ✧ PE17/151

Element in

• S. Cabed Naeramarth “Leap of Dreadful Doom” ✧ S/224
• ᴺS. naeras “sorrow, woe”
• S. naergon “woeful lament”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√NAY > naer	[nairā] > [naira] > [nair] > [naer]	✧ PE17/151

Variations

• Naer ✧ S/224

naer

adjective. dreadful

_ adj. _dreadful, horrible, unendurable. Q. naira.

naer

adjective. sad, lamentable

daer

adjective. dreadful

_ adj. _dreadful, horrible, ghastly.

naer

lamentable

naer (dreadful, sad, woeful); no distinct pl. form.

naer

woeful

naer (dreadful, lamentable, sad); no distinct pl. form.

naer

dreadful

(lamentable, woeful, sad); no distinct pl. form.

naer

sad

(dreadful, lamentable, woeful); no distinct pl. form.

naer

lamentable

(dreadful, sad, woeful); no distinct pl. form.

naer

woeful

(dreadful, lamentable, sad); no distinct pl. form.

naergon

woeful lament

(pl. naergoen)

gaer

dreadful

1) gaer (awful, fearful; holy); lenited aear; no distinct pl. form. Note: homophones mean "reddish, copper-coloured, ruddy" and also "sea". 2) naer (lamentable, woeful, sad); no distinct pl. form.

gaer

dreadful

(awful, fearful; holy); lenited ’aear; no distinct pl. form. Note: homophones mean "reddish, copper-coloured, ruddy" and also "sea".

dem

sad

1) dem (gloomy), lenited dhem, pl. dhim; 2) naer (dreadful, lamentable, woeful); no distinct pl. form. 3) nûr (pl. nuir). Note: homophones mean ”deep” and ”race”.

goeol

adjective. dreadful, terrifying

nûr

adjective. sad

For an earlier discussion, see Klockzo, 4th volume, p. 160 §147: The meaning of Núrnen long remained highly hypothetical. The current definition is based on Christopher Tolkien's index to UT and on the unfinished index of names published in RC. The Gnomish Lexicon listed nur- (nauri) "growl, grumble", nurn "plaint, lament, a complaint" and nurna- "bewail, lament, complain of" (PE/11:61). Likewise, the Qenyaqetsa included a root NURU- with several derivatives with similar meanings (PE/12:68). See also Q. nurrula "mumbling" (from nurru- "murmur, grumble") in the final version of the poem The Last Ark (MC/222-23). Patrick Wynne therefore noted: S. *nûr in Núrnen "Sad Water" is apparently "sad" in the sense "bewailing, lamenting, complaining, grumbling", no doubt a reference to the general mood of the hapless laborers in "the great slave-worked fields" beside the lake. (See Lambengolmor/856-860)

dem

sad

(gloomy), lenited dhem, pl. dhim

nûr

sad

(pl. nuir). Note: homophones mean ”deep” and ”race”.