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olca

evil, bad, wicked

olca adj. "evil, bad, wicked" (VT43:23-24, VT48:32, VT49:14, PE17:149). The root meaning implies "wickedness as well as badness or lack of worth" (PE17:170). Variant of ulca.

olca

adjective. bad, wicked

Changes

  • ŏlcaolca ✧ PE17/170

Cognates

  • S. ogol “bad, evil, wrong; gloom(y)” ✧ PE17/149; PE17/170; VT48/32

Derivations

  • OKO “evil, wicked, bad” ✧ PE17/149; VT48/32
  • oklā “bad, wicked” ✧ PE17/170; VT43/24
    • OKO “evil, wicked, bad” ✧ PE17/170; VT43/24

Element in

  • Q. násië “but deliver us from evil: Amen” ✧ VT43/23

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
OKO > olca[oklā] > [olkā] > [olka]✧ PE17/149
oklā > olca[oklā] > [olkā] > [olka]✧ PE17/170
oklā > olca[oklā] > [olkā] > [olka]✧ VT43/24
oko > olca[oklā] > [olkā] > [olka]✧ VT48/32

Variations

  • ŏlca ✧ PE17/170 (ŏlca)
Quenya [PE17/149; PE17/170; VT43/23; VT43/24; VT48/32; VT49/14] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ulca

evil, bad, wicked, wrong

ulca adj. "evil, bad, wicked, wrong" (QL:97, VT43:23-24, VT48:32, VT49:14; compounded in henulca "evileyed", SD:68); variant olca, q.v. Compare noun ulco. The adj. ulca may also itself be used as a noun "evil", as in the ablative form ulcallo "from evil" (VT43:8, 10) and the sentence cé mo quetë ulca *"if one speaks evil" (VT49:19).

ulco

evil

ulco (stem #ulcu-) noun "evil", pl. *ulqui (VT43:23-24; the stem-form is attested in the ablative case: ulcullo "from evil", VT43:12)

ulco

noun. evil

Derivations

  • UK “nasty”

Element in

  • Q. násië “but deliver us from evil: Amen” ✧ VT43/24; VT43/23
  • ᴺQ. ulculóra “without evil”
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urra

adjective. bad

Changes

  • uncaurra “bad” ✧ PE22/168

Derivations

  • UG “dislike”

Element in

Variations

  • unca ✧ PE22/168 (unca)

úra

evil, nasty

úra (1) adj. "evil, nasty" (VT43:24, VT48:32)

naxa

adjective. evil

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naxa

noun/adjective. evil

Element in

Variations

  • naxa ✧ PE22/154

úmëa

evil

úmëa (2) adj. "evil" (UGU/UMU). Obsoleted by #1 above? Possibly connected to úmëai in Narqelion, if that is a "Qenya" plural form.

úro

evil

úro noun "evil" (VT43:24); Tolkien may have abandoned this form in favour of ulco, q.v.

ú-

prefix. bad, uneasy, hard

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