nanwë

noun. ebb, lowtide

A noun for an ebb-tide, first given as lanwe “ebb-tide” < ✶danmi “retreat” (VT48/32), then as nanwe “ebb, lowtide” < ✶ndanmē (VT48/26), appearing in notes on Variation D/L in Common Eldarin from the late 1960s. It was contrasted with luimë “flood, high tide” (VT48/24). I would interpret nanwe to mean a state of lowered water from any source, either low tide or a reduced river flow, but mostly for low tide as that would be the more common source.

nanwë

ebb, lowtide

nanwë noun "ebb, lowtide" (VT48:26). Compare lanwë.

nanwen-

verb. to return, go/come back

A verb for “return, go/come back” in notes from around 1959, a combination of √NDAN “back” with √MEN “go” (PE17/166), where ancient nm became nw.

Conceptual Development: Quendian & Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (EVS1) from the 1940s had a similar (probably archaic) past tense form ᴹQ. ndanne “went back” based directly on √NDAN “back”, as part of the phrase á e·ndanne anda né “oh! he went back long ago” (PE22/96).

Neo-Quenya: In a 2024-09-16 conversation on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Luinyelle suggested that nan- might mean “retreat, give way, revert, ebb” based on later verbal glosses of its roots √NDAN “retreat, go back, give way (as one advances), revert” (VT48/32). If so, these two verbs could coexist with nanwen- meaning “go back = return to somewhere you’ve been before”, as opposed to nan- = “go back = go backwards, not necessarily to a prior position”. I would also assume nanwen- “return = go back” differs from nantul- “return = come back” in that nantul- implies return to the position of the speaker, whereas nanwen- could be return to some other place where the speaker is not.

nanwen-

return

nanwen- vb. "return" (go/come back) (PE17:166). The etymological form nan-men- indicates that the second element is #men- "go", changed to -wen- following nan- "back"; hence the perfect should perhaps be *naneménië.

lanwë

ebb-tide

lanwë (stem *lanwi-, given primitive form ¤danmi) noun "ebb-tide" (VT48:32). Compare nanwë.

lanwë

noun. ebb-tide

nanwenda

noun. ransom

nanwenta-

verb. to send back

A neologism for “to send back” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT) as a combination of nan- “back” and menta- “send”.

nanwera

noun. ransom

nanwerë

noun. ransom

men-

go

#men- (4) vb. "go" (VT47:11, cf. VT42:30, VT49:23), attested in the aorist (menë) in the sentence imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië "between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon". In the verb nanwen- "return" (or go/come back), -men- is changed to -wen- following nan- "back" (etymological form cited as nan-men-, PE17:166). In examples from VT49:23, 24, Tolkien used men- in the sense of "go as far as": 1st person sg. aorist menin (menin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist menë, present tense ména- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense mennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative (mennen sís "I arrive[d] here"), perfect eménië "has just arrived", future menuva "will arrive". All of these examples were first written with the verb as ten- rather than men-, Tolkien then emending the initial consonant.

nan-

backwards

nan- (prefix) "backwards" (NDAN) or "back", as in nanwen- "return" (go/come back, PE17:166), cf. also nanquernë *"turned back", the pl. form of nanquerna _(VT49:17-18). _Apparently assimilated nal- in nalláma "echo" (if this represents nan-láma "back-sound", sound coming back).

entulessë

return

entulessë noun "return" (UT:171)

entulessë

proper name. Return

The name of the Númerórean ship that was the first to return to Middle-earth, six centuries after Númenor was settled (UT/171). It is the noun entulessë “return” used as a name.

entulessë

noun. return

A noun for “return” attested as the name of a ship: Entulessë (UT/171). It seems to be an abstract noun based on the verb entul- “return, come again”.

lelya-

go, proceed (in any direction), travel

lelya- (1) vb. "go, proceed (in any direction), travel", pa.t. lendë / elendë (WJ:363, VT14:5, PE17:139) At one point Tolkien assigned a more specific meaning to the underlying root LED: "go away from the speaker or the point in mind, depart" (PE17:52), which would make lelya- a near synonym of auta-. The same source denies that the derivatives of _LED _were used simply for "go, move, travel", but elsewhere Tolkien assigns precisely that meaning to lelya-.

lenna-

go

lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.

naite

adjective. true

naitë

true

naitë adj. "true" (VT49:28)

naitë

adjective. true

vanya-

go, depart, disappear

vanya- (2) vb. "go, depart, disappear", pa.t. vannë (WAN). The verb auta- may have replaced this word in Tolkien's later conception.

cemendur

noun. farmer

A neologism for “farmer” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), a combination of cemen “earth” and -(n)dur “servant”, a suffix sometimes used in the names of professions such as arandur “minister” and ornendur “forester”.