noldorin

proper name. Gnomish

etya-noldorin

proper name. Exiled Noldorin

yára-noldorin

proper name. Old Noldorin

kornoldorin

proper name. ancient language of the Noldor at Kôr

The ancient language of the Noldor of Kôr after the departure of the Lindar in Tolkien’s linguistic writings from the 1930s (LR/174, 194), a compound of that city name with the adjective Noldorin.

etingul

proper name. one of Noldorin race who remained in Kor

A term for the Noldor who remained in Valinor appearing only in linguistic notes from the 1930s (PE21/33), its initial element is derived from primitive ete “back, below”.

lóna

adjective. dark

nyarro

noun. rat

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “rat” derived from primitive ᴹ✶nyadrō under the root ᴹ√NYAD “gnaw” (Ety/NYAD). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, the form was incorrectly given as nyano (LR/379), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to nyarro in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/7).

orko

noun. goblin

qesset

noun. pillow

A noun for “pillow” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWES having to do with feathers (Ety/KWES). Given its cognate N. pesseg, its stem form is probably quessec- as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (QQ/quesset).

seler

noun. sister

A noun for “sister” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√THEL or THELES of the same meaning, with an irregular plural selli (Ety/THEL), where the stem form sell- is because the Quenya syncope caused the second e to be lost and then the ancient ls became ll.

Neo-Quenya: In notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien introduced a new word nésa for “sister” (VT47/14). However, I think seler might be retained to mean a “metaphorical” sister, a close female associate who may or may not be related by blood, as with such words as meletheldi “love-sister, ✱close female friend” or ᴹQ. oselle “sworn sister”. In this sense, nésa would be limited to biological relationships, but seler would refer to sisterly (or sister-like) affection.