Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

otso

cardinal. seven

Early Quenya [PE14/049; PE14/082; PE15/32; PME/071; QL/071] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsola

noun. week

The Early Qenya word for a seven-day “week” is otsola. It is related to the word otso “seven”, and its Gnomish cognate ochlad is derived from ᴱ✶ot·g’lāta (GL/62). The Qenya word is probably derived from ᴱ✶otso-g’lā, where the second element is a reduced form of ᴱ✶galā > kala “daytime”.

Conceptual Development: In a very early list of weekday names, this word also appeared as ᴱQ. otsan (PE14/16, 21), where its second element was probably derived from sana “day” (GL/29).

Neo-Quenya: There are a couple later words for “week” in Quenya, namely ᴹQ. lemnar and Q. enquië. These describe five- and six-day weeks, respectively and are related to ᴹQ. lempe “five” and Q. enquë “six”. The Elves used a six-day week in Tolkien’s later writing (LotR/1107). The Númenóreans added a seventh day that was adopted throughout the human kingdoms of Middle-earth, but Tolkien did not give a name to this seven-day week.

The later Quenya word for “seven” remained otso, and the later word for the six-day week is a combination of enquë “six” with the abstract-noun suffix -ië. Therefore, otsola might remain a valid Quenya word for a seven-day week, though a revised form !otsolë might fit later Quenya structure better.

Early Quenya [GL/62; PE14/016; PE14/021] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsondóre

cardinal. *septillion

Early Quenya [PE14/083] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsonto

fraction. one seventh

Early Quenya [PE14/051; PE14/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsontya

fraction. one seventh

Early Quenya [PE14/051; PE14/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsokainen

cardinal. seventy

Early Quenya [PE14/049; PE14/083] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsollume

adverb. *seven times

Early Quenya [PE14/051] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsondóra

cardinal. *seven million

Early Quenya [PE14/050] Group: Eldamo. Published by

otsotto

fraction. one seventh

otsottya

fraction. one seventh

okkainen

cardinal. seventy

otsan

noun. week

otya

ordinal. seventh

Early Quenya [PE14/051; PE14/082] Group: Eldamo. Published by