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nut-

tie

nut- vb. "tie" (1st pers. aorist nutin "I tie") (NUT)

tië

path, course, line, direction, way

tië noun "path, course, line, direction, way" (TE3, VT47:11); pl. tier in Namárië(Nam, RGEO:67); tielyanna "upon your path" (UT:22 cf. 51; tie-lya-nna "path-your-upon")

tië

noun. path, road, way, line, path, road, way, line, [ᴹQ.] course, direction, [ᴱQ.] route

Derivations

  • tegē “line, road” ✧ PE19/071
    • TEG “line”

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
tegē > tie[tegē] > [teɣē] > [tejē] > [tie]✧ PE19/071

Variations

  • tie ✧ PE17/013; PE17/072; PE19/071; VT47/11
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tien

for them

tien would seem to be a dative pronoun *"for them". Whether this is somehow to be derived from the pronoun te "they, them", or whether it is the dative form of an otherwise unattested 3rd person pl. pronoun *tië, remains unclear. (VT43:12, 21) Ten (q.v.) as the straightforward dative form of te is attested elsewhere.

tier

path

tier is, besides the pl. form of tië "path" above, an ephemeral word for "so", abandoned by Tolkien in favour of tambë (VT43:17)

lia-

twine

lia- vb. "twine" (LT1:271)

mentië

passage, journey, direction of travel

mentië noun "passage, journey, direction of travel" (PE17:13); the elements are men- "go, proceed" + tië "path, road". Not to be confused with the gerund of menta- #1.

raiwe

lace

[raiwe noun "lace" (VT42:12)]

raiwë

noun. lace

A word for “lace” appearing in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s from the root √RAY “net, knit, contrive network or lace, involve in a network, enlace” (VT42/12). The glossed form raiwe “lace” was deleted, but later in the same note Tolkien gave “S. raef or raew (blend of Q. raima and raiwe) ‘net’,” and this second instance of raiwe was not deleted.

Cognates

  • S. raew “net” ✧ VT42/12

Derivations

  • RAY “net, knit, contrive network or lace, involve in a network, enlace” ✧ VT42/12

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
RAY > raiwe[raiwe] > [raiwe]✧ VT42/12

Variations

  • raiwe ✧ VT42/12 (raiwe); VT42/12

tac-

fasten

tac- ("k") vb. "fasten" (the form tacë given in the Etymologies is translated "he fastens", evidently the 3rd person sg. aorist), pa.t. tancë (TAK)

way

(1) noun "way" = "method, manner" ("as in that is not As way"). Not to be confused with as a stressed form of le = plural "you"; Tolkien was himself dissatisfied with this clash (PE17:74).

men

way

men (2) noun "way" (SA) or "place, spot" (MEN)

men

noun. way, way; [ᴹQ.] place, spot

Cognates

  • S. men “road, way, road, way; [N.] *place”

Derivations

  • MEN “go, move, proceed (in any direction); make for, go towards; have as object, (in)tend; direction, object, point moved toward; region”

Element in

  • ᴺQ. catamen “background, milieu”
  • Q. formen “north, north, [ᴹQ.] right-hand [direction]” ✧ SA/men
  • Q. hyarmen “south, (lit.) left-hand direction” ✧ SA/men
  • Q. Ilmen “*Place of Starlight”
  • ᴺQ. mancamen “market, (lit.) trade-place”
  • ᴺQ. menessë “instead, (lit.) in place”
  • Q. mentië “passage, journey, direction of travel”
  • ᴺQ. mótamen “office”
  • ᴺQ. natsemen “website, (lit.) web-spot”
  • Q. númen “west, direction or region of the sunset, occident, (lit.) going down” ✧ SA/men
  • ᴺQ. parmen “school, place of study”
  • ᴺQ. quermen “a turning, turn, corner (of a street)”
  • Q. rómen “east, uprising, sunrise” ✧ SA/men
  • ᴺQ. tirmen “theater”
  • ᴺQ. tungwemen “tax-office”

nem-

sew

nem- vb. "sew" (cited in the form neme), pa.t. néme (QL:65)

londa

path

[londa noun "path"], changed by Tolkien to londë noun "road (in sea)" (VT45:28)

lango

passage

lango (2) noun "passage", especially across or over an obstacle, also "neck" (PE17:92)

vand-

way, path

vand- noun "way, path" (LT1:264; a final vowel would seem to be required, but in Tolkien's later Quenya, the words tië or mallë are to be preferred)

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