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")
Quenya
nut-
tie
tië
path, course, line, direction, way
tië
noun. path, road, way, line, path, road, way, line, [ᴹQ.] course, direction, [ᴱQ.] route
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Anar caluva tielyanna “The sun shall shine upon your path” ✧ UT/022
- ᴺQ. angatië “railway line, railroad track, (lit.) iron-road”
- Q. ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë “and all paths are drowned deep in shadow” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. ar lumbulë undulávë ilyë tier “and (heavy) shadow swallowed (lit. down-licked) all roads” ✧ RGEO/59
- Q. imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië “between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon” ✧ VT47/11
- Q. mentië “passage, journey, direction of travel” ✧ PE17/013
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tegē > tie [tegē] > [teɣē] > [tejē] > [tie] ✧ PE19/071 Variations
- tie ✧ PE17/013; PE17/072; PE19/071; VT47/11
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
Development Stages Sources √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)
lé
way
lé (1) noun "way" = "method, manner" ("as in that is not As way"). Not to be confused with lé 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)
nut- vb. "tie" (1st pers. aorist nutin "I tie") (NUT)