nó

preposition. yester-, *after

nó

noun. conception, idea, thought

nóla

noun. round head, knoll, round hilltop; summit, round head, knoll, round hilltop; summit, [ᴱQ.] top (only used of mountains etc.); crown of head

A word for a type of hill, a “round head, knoll”, appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of ᴹ√NDOL (Ety/NDOL).

Conceptual Development: This word was mentioned quite frequently in Tolkien’s early writings, appearing as ᴱQ. nōla “head, hill” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from ᴱ√NOHO “extended” (QL/67), and appearing in many word lists from the 1910s through early 1930s with glosses like “round hill” (PME/67), “head, summit” (PE15/73), “top (only used of mountains etc.)” (PE15/78), or “summit, round hilltop, head” (PE21/8). In the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s Tolkien clarified that it “is not used of human head except colloquially” (PE15/73). Tolkien’s ongoing use of its cognate S. dol(l) “head, hill” in later writings indicates is ongoing validity.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would limit this word to round hills and knolls and not use it for mountain tops.

nov-

verb. ?to think, form idea, imagine

An unglossed verb in a marginal note the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948, appearing as a root form √NOV, with future forms nouva > nóva, and long imperfect form novalya, illustrating certain phonetic developments in Quenya future forms of verbs with stems ending in -ov, -uv (PE22/101). It is possible this is the Quenya verb form of the root ᴹ√NOWO “think, form idea, imagine” and hence with a similar meaning, but it is hard to say since the verb is unglossed and the root might be ✱√NOB. For purposes of Neo-Quenya, it is probably better to use sana- for “to think”.

not-

verb. to reckon

nóte

noun. number

noa

noun/adjective. male (of any kind)

noite

adjective. male, masculine

noito

noun. male (of any kind)

nome

noun. place

nókoire

noun. March, *After-stirring

nóla

adjective. wise, learned

nóle

noun. wisdom

nóloa

noun. yesteryear

nóqelle

noun. October, *After-autumn

nóre

noun. land, country, region where certain people live; clan, race, folk, kindred

nótuile

noun. May, *After-spring

noa

noun. thigh

A word for “thigh” in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing in the (deleted) entry for the root ᴹ√ÑGŌ̆W (EtyAC/ÑGŌ̆W).

nólairë

noun. July, *After-summer

neuma

noun. snare, snare, *noose

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “snare” under the root ᴹ√SNEW “entangle” (Ety/SNEW).

Neo-Quenya: Its Noldorin cognate was also glossed “noose”, so that meaning might apply to neuma as well; this would help distinguish it from later remma “snare” which had more to do with nets.

tuvu-

verb. to take, to take, [ᴱQ.] require, cost, receive, accept

The verb ᴱQ. tuvu- appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “receive, accept, take, require, cost” under the early root ᴱ√TUVU (QL/96). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon with the gloss “receive”, given as the cognate of G. tû- “receive; take; get; become” (GL/71). The verb appeared in the 1920s Early Qenya Grammar as tuv “receive, take”, with past túvie and present tuve or tue, along with an “impersonal” variant tú (PE14/58).

Similar verb forms ᴹQ. tuvo “take” and túvie “took” appeared in the first version of Quenya Personal Pronouns (QPP1) the late 1940s (PE23/92). The aorist verb form tuvo is peculiar, but it may be in that moment Tolkien imagined this was a u-verb tuvu-, and that the aorist forms of such a u-verb was tuvo < ✱tuvŭ rather than tuvu < ✱tuvū as it was in other documents of this period such as the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/114).

QVS also introduced a new meaning for ᴹQ. tuve “finds” (PE22/108 note #50) in that document revised to ᴹQ. kime (PE22/108, 125), but later still Q. utúvienyes “I have found it” appeared in The Lord of the Rings. See those entries for further discussion.

Neo-Quenya: It is possible that tuvu- “take” was displaced by Q. tuv- “find, discover”. However, we have no good Quenya word for “take”, so for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would retain tuvu- “take” as a u-verb, perhaps related somehow to tuv- “find” after considerable semantic drift. I would also retain the earlier meanings “require, cost”, as in tuvus miriani canta “it costs [takes] four mirian [a Gondorian coin]”. For “receive, accept”, I would instead use the later verb cav-.

hún

noun. earth, earth, *ground

A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with stem form hun- and gloss “earth” (QL/39). It might be a later iteration of ᴱQ. han “ground, earth” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/39), and if so then hún might also be used as “✱ground”. I think it is useful to assume so for purposes of Neo-Quenya, as the other attested word for “ground”, Q. talan, is probably used more often for “floor”, including floors above the ground level.

saira

adjective. wise

yo

conjunction. and

ambo

noun. hill

enar

noun. tomorrow

esse

noun. name

esse

noun. place

esta-

verb. to precede

kas

noun. head

kas

noun. head

kermie

noun. July

kiuka

noun. thigh

kár

noun. head

narqelie

noun. October

súlime

noun. March

tiuko

noun. thigh

tyúka

noun. thigh

unqa

adjective. hollow

uruite

adjective. fiery

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fiery”, an adjectival form of ᴹQ. úr “fire” under the root ᴹ√UR “be hot”, but these words were deleted when the meaning of the root was revised to “wide, large, great” (Ety/UR).

Conceptual Development: A similar word ᴱQ. uruvoite “fiery, having fire” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√URU (QL/98).

Neo-Quenya: The word úr “fire” was restored in some later writings, and this adjective may have been restored with it, but I prefer ᴺQ. úruva for “fiery”; see that entry for discussion.

vanima

adjective. fair

ye

conjunction. and

yu

conjunction. and

úruva

adjective. fiery

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as ᴹQ. úruva “fiery”, an adjectival form of ᴹQ. úr “fire” under the root ᴹ√UR “be hot”, but these words were deleted when the meaning of the root was revised to “wide, large, great” (Ety/UR).

Conceptual Development: The word ᴱQ. urūva “like fire” also appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√URU (QL/98).

Neo-Quenya: The word úr “fire” was restored in some later writings, and this adjective may have been restored with it. I personally would use ᴺQ. úruva “fiery” for purposes of Neo-Quenya. See the entry on ᴹQ. úr for further discussion on the viability of “fire” words based on √UR.