Sindarin 

túrin

masculine name. Túrin

The great tragic hero of the First Age (S/198), his name is a combination of tûr “victory” (SA/tur) and ind “heart”.

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this character’s name was already G. Túrin (LT2/70), and so remained in all of Tolkien’s writing. It was translated “Lord” in some early notes (PE15/61), but it seems unlikely this translation remained valid. In The Etymologies from the 1930s, N. Túrin was derived from a combination of N. tûr and ind, which is the source of the derivation given above (Ety/ID, TUR).

Sindarin [LotRI/Túrin; LT1I/Túrin; MRI/Túrin; PE22/165; PMI/Túrin; S/223; S/226; SA/tur; SI/Túrin; UT/138; UTI/Túrin; VT49/24; VT50/05; VT50/18; WJI/Túrin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Túrin

noun. victorious heart

tûr (“mastery,victory”) + ind (“inner thought, heart, mind”)

Sindarin [Tolkiendil] Group: Tolkiendil Compound Sindarin Names. Published by

túrin ion húrin túramarth

*Túrin son of Húrin, Túramarth

túrin turambar dagnir glaurunga

Túrin Turambar, Glaurung’s Bane

Sindarin [S/226; SA/dagor; SI/Dagnir Glaurunga; UT/145; WJ/103; WJI/Dagnir Glaurunga] Group: Eldamo. Published by

túrin wrapper

Túrin Wrapper

Adanedhel (Túrin)

noun. man-elf

adan (“man”) + edhel (“elf”)

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Agarwaen (Túrin)

noun. bloodstained

agar (“blood”) + gwaen (“stained” [Etym. WA3-]) #The formation of the last element is not clear.

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Túrin

Túrin (name)

See: Túrin (disambiguation) and Turambar (disambiguation)

It's possible that during Túrin's lifetime (First Age), the name was pronounced as "Túrind" before simplified in the following centuries. The Quenya form is Túrindo.

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway "Túrin"] Published by

tûr

lord

(i** dûr, o thûr, construct tur) (mastery, power, control; master, victor), pl. tuir (i** thuir), coll. pl. túrath.

o

preposition. from, of (preposition (as a proclitic) used in either direction, from or to the point of view of the speaker)

According to WJ/366, the preposition "is normally o in all positions, though od appears occasionally before vowels, especially before o-". With a suffixed article, see also uin

Sindarin [Ety/360, WJ/366, WJ/369-70, LotR/II:IV, SD/129-3] Group: SINDICT. Published by

o

preposition. from

_ prep. _from, of. In older S. o had the form od before vowels. o menel aglar elenath ! lit. 'from Firmament glory of the stars !'.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:20-1:42:54] < _au(t) _< stem_ awa_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

o

preposition. from

_ prep. _from. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:148] < AWA, WĀ go, move (from speaker), go away, depart. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

od

preposition. from, of (preposition (as a proclitic) used in either direction, from or to the point of view of the speaker)

According to WJ/366, the preposition "is normally o in all positions, though od appears occasionally before vowels, especially before o-". With a suffixed article, see also uin

Sindarin [Ety/360, WJ/366, WJ/369-70, LotR/II:IV, SD/129-3] Group: SINDICT. Published by

brannon

lord

(i** vrannon), pl. brennyn (i** mrennyn), coll. pl. brannonnath

dag

slay

dag- (i nâg, i ndegir), pa.t. danc or dagant, passive participle dangen "slain" (pl. dengin, lenited nengin) (VT45:37)

dag

slay

(i nâg, i ndegir), pa.t. danc or dagant, passive participle dangen "slain" (pl. dengin, lenited nengin) (VT45:37)

heron

lord

(i cheron, o cheron) (master), pl. heryn (i cheryn), coll. pl. heronnath** (VT45:22). Since the pl. heryn clashes with the fem. sg. heryn** ”lady”, other words for ”lord” may be preferred.

hîr

lord

1) hîr (i chîr, o chîr; also hir-, her- at the beginning of compounds) (master), no distinct pl. form, not even with article (i chîr), coll. pl. híriath (Letters:282, 386; VT41:9); 2) heron (i cheron, o cheron) (master), pl. heryn (i cheryn), coll. pl. heronnath (VT45:22)._ _Since the pl. heryn clashes with the fem. sg. heryn ”lady”, other words for ”lord” may be preferred. 3) brannon (i vrannon), pl. brennyn (i mrennyn), coll. pl. brannonnath; 4) tûr (i dûr, o thûr, construct tur) (mastery, power, control; master, victor), pl. tuir (i thuir), coll. pl. túrath.

hîr

lord

(i chîr, o chîr; also hir-, her- at the beginning of compounds) (master), no distinct pl. form, not even with article (i chîr), coll. pl. híriath (Letters:282, 386; VT41:9)

o

of

(od), followed by hard mutation. With article uin ”from the, of the” (followed by ”mixed” mutation according to David Salo’s reconstuctuons). (WJ:366). Not to be confused with o ”about, concerning”.

Noldorin 

túrin

masculine name. Túrin

Noldorin [Ety/ID; Ety/TUR; LRI/Túrin; PE22/041; RSI/Túrin; SDI2/Túrin; SMI/Túrin; TII/Túrin; WRI/Túrin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

brannon

noun. lord

Noldorin [Ety/351] Group: SINDICT. Published by

brannon

noun. lord

Noldorin [Ety/BARÁD] Group: Eldamo. Published by

dag-

verb. to slay

Noldorin [Ety/375, VT/45:37] Group: SINDICT. Published by

o

preposition. from, of (preposition (as a proclitic) used in either direction, from or to the point of view of the speaker)

According to WJ/366, the preposition "is normally o in all positions, though od appears occasionally before vowels, especially before o-". With a suffixed article, see also uin

Noldorin [Ety/360, WJ/366, WJ/369-70, LotR/II:IV, SD/129-3] Group: SINDICT. Published by

Quenya 

Túrin

victory-mood

Túrin masc. name, apparently meaning "victory-mood" (LR:395, s.v. TUR). The Etymologies gives Turindo as the Quenya form of this name; Túrin seems to be properly the Sindarin form, though it fits Quenya style well enough and Nienor used it in a Quenya sentence (near the end of ch. 21 of the Silmarillion). The name appears as Turin (with a short u) in the phrase nahtana ló Turin, "slain by Túrin" (VT49:24)

túrin

noun. lord

Quenya [Minor-Doc/1973-05-30] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Turindo

turindo

Turindo masc. name; see Túrin (TUR)

nahtana ló turin

*slain by Túrin

a túrin turambar turún’ ambartanen

[O] master of doom by doom mastered

Quenya [S/223; UT/138] Group: Eldamo. Published by

i túrin i cormaron

proper name. the Lord of the Rings

Quenya [Minor-Doc/1973-05-30] Group: Eldamo. Published by

from

, lo (2) prep. "from", also used = "by" introducing the agent after a passive construction: nahtana ló Turin *"slain by Túrin" (VT49:24). A similar and possibly identical form is mentioned in the Etymologies as being somehow related to the ablative ending -llo, but is not there clearly defined (VT45:28). At one point, Tolkien suggested that lo rather than the ending -llo was used with proper names (lo Manwë rather than Manwello for "from Manwë"), but this seems to have been a short-lived idea (VT49:24).

nahta-

slay

nahta- (1) verb "slay" (nahtan "I slay"). Possible variant #nehta- see #nehtar. Passive participle nahtana in the phrase nahtana ló Túrin *"slain by Turin". (VT49:24)

-va

from

-va possessive ending, presumably related to the preposition va "from". In Eldaliéva, Ingoldova, miruvóreva, Oroméva, rómeva, Valinóreva (q.v. for references), Follondiéva, Hyallondiéva (see under turmen for references). Following a consonant, the ending instead appears as -wa (andamacilwa "of the long sword", PE17:147, rómenwa *"of the East", PE17:59). Pl. - when governing a plural word (from archaic -vai) (WJ:407), but it seems that -va was used throughout in late Exilic Quenya (cf. miruvóreva governing the plural word yuldar in Namárië). Pl. -iva (-ivë*), dual -twa, partitive pl. -líva**.

Malantur

lord, ruler

Malantur, masc. name. Apparently includes -(n)tur "lord, ruler". The initial element is unlikely to connect with the early "Qenya" element mala- "hurt, pain", and may rather reflect the root MALAT "gold" (PM:366): Malat-ntur > Malantur "Gold-ruler"? (UT:210)

condo

noun. lord

heru

lord, master

heru (also hér) noun "lord, master" (PM:210, KHER, LT1:272, VT44:12); Letters:283 gives hér (heru); the form Héru with a long vowel refers to God in the source where it appears (i Héru "the Lord", VT43:29). In names like Herumor "Black Lord" and Herunúmen "Lord of the West" (SA:heru). The form heruion is evidently a gen.pl. of heru "lord": "of the lords" (SD:290); herunúmen "Lord-of-West" (LR:47), title of Manwë. Pl. númeheruvi "Lords-of-West" (*"West-lords") in SD:246, a title of the Valar; does this form suggest that #heruvi is the regular plural of heru?

ho

from

ho prep. "from" (3O); cf. -

hér

lord

hér noun "lord" (VT41:9), also heru, q.v.

hér

noun. lord

nahta-

verb. slay

Quenya [PE 22:102, 114; PE 22:159] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

o

preposition. from

Quenya [PE17/148; PE22/168] Group: Eldamo. Published by

va

from

va prep. "from" (VT43:20; prefixed in the form var- in var-úra "from evil", VT43:24). In VT49:24, va, au and o are quoted as variants of the stem awa "away from".

herunauco

9V7J5.DaH noun. dwarf-lord, dwarven lord

Quenya [Compound of heru and nauco] Group: Neologism. Published by

Adûnaic

preposition. from

A prepositional suffix translated “from” (SD/429). In a few places, the suffix appears with the glide-consonant v (pronounced [w]) between it and a preceding u-vowel (SD/247, 249). It is likely related to the Quenya genitive inflection Q. -o.

Conceptual Development: At an earlier conceptual stage, this suffix was a grammatical inflection, the draft-genitive (SD/438).

Adûnaic [SD/247; SD/249; SD/365; SD/382; SD/429] Group: Eldamo. Published by

arûn

masculine name. Lord

An Adûnaic name for Morgoth, perhaps coined by Sauron when he introduced the worship of the dark god to the Númenóreans, translated as “Lord” (SD/376). It is derived from the word ârû “king” and was sometimes used in a compound together with Morgoth’s true Adûnaic name: Arûn-Mulkhêr (SD/367). In other writings (SD/357) it was the original Adûnaic name of Morgoth before he fell to evil, but that hardly makes sense in the conceptual scenario of the later Silmarillion, in which Morgoth had already become evil before men awoke.

Adûnaic [SD/357; SD/376; SDI2/Arûn] Group: Eldamo. Published by

bâr

noun. lord

A noun translated as “lord” (SD/311, 428). This nouns wins the prize for “most inflected Adûnaic noun”, since we have declensions for this noun in both the draft Adûnaic grammar and the later grammar of Lowdham’s Report. As such, it is very helpful for comparing how the noun declensions changed as Tolkien developed Adûnaic grammar. For example, comparing its draft plurals bāri/bārim to its later plural bârî/bârîm indicate the draft plural was originally formed with a short rather than long i. There are a few lingering examples of this short-i plural in later writings (SD/247, 251).

Conceptual Development: In earlier writings the rejected name Kherû “Lord” (SD/376) indicates a possible earlier form of this noun; Kherû itself was changed to Arûn. A similar form reappears in later writings in the name Adûnakhôr “Lord of the West”: either akhôr or khôr “lord”. Whether or not this later word replaced bâr is unknown.

Adûnaic [SD/247; SD/251; SD/311; SD/312; SD/428; SD/429; SD/437; SD/438; SD/439] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kherû

masculine name. Lord

A rejected draft version of the Adûnaic name for Morgoth translated “Lord”, replaced by Arûn of the same meaning (SD/376). It is transparently a derivative of the Elvish root ᴹ√KHER, as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynn (AAD/18). A later form of this word, ✱khôr “lord”, may appears as an element in the name Adûnakhôr “Lord of the West”.

Adûnaic [SD/376; SDI2/Arûn] Group: Eldamo. Published by

khôr Reconstructed

noun. lord

An element meaning “lord” appearing only in the name Adûnakhôr “Lord of the West”, though a similar form appears in the earlier names Kherû “Lord” and Mulkhêr “Lord of Darkness”. It isn’t clear whether this element is ✱akhôr or ✱khôr, but khôr resembles the Primitive Elvish root √KHER “rule, govern, possess”, to which it may be related.

This possible relationship has been suggested by various authors (AL/Adûnaic, EotAL/KHUR). Andreas Moehn rejected the relationship, pointing out that Primitive Elvish ✶khēru “lord” would have developed phonetically into Ad. ✱✱khîru (EotAL). However, khôr may be derived from some more ancient Avari loan word, which underwent different phonetic developments than those of the Eldarin languages, perhaps ✶kher- > khar > khaur > Ad. khôr.

Khuzdûl

uzbad

noun. lord

Khuzdûl [PE17/047] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Primitive elvish

preposition. from

Primitive elvish [VT47/35] Group: Eldamo. Published by

árātō

noun. lord

Primitive elvish [PE17/118] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ăwă

preposition. from

Primitive elvish [PE17/148] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ʒō

preposition. from

Primitive elvish [PE21/78] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Telerin 

ho

preposition. from


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 Noldorin

túrin

masculine name. Túrin

Early Noldorin [LBI/Túrin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hin

preposition. from

Early Noldorin [MC/217] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hîr

noun. lord

Early Noldorin [PE13/121; PE13/147] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

túrin

noun. king(dom)

Early Quenya [PME/096; QL/095; QL/096] Group: Eldamo. Published by

heru

noun. lord

Early Quenya [GL/49; LT1A/Valahíru; PME/040; QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ô

preposition. from

Early Quenya [GL/17] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

túrin

masculine name. Lord

Gnomish [LT2I/Túrin; PE15/61] Group: Eldamo. Published by

a

preposition. from

Gnomish [GG/11; GL/17; PE13/115] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hermon

noun. lord

malc

noun. lord

o

preposition. from

Early Primitive Elvish

maka

root. slay

Early Primitive Elvish [GL/18; LT1A/Makar; LT1A/Telimektar; QL/057] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

ho

preposition. from

Qenya [Ety/ƷŌ̆; PE21/60] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mandu

noun. lord

Doriathrin

garon

noun. lord

A Doriathrin noun for “lord” derived from the root ᴹ√ƷAR or possibly ᴹ√GAR (Ety/ƷAR), perhaps from a primitive form ✱✶ɣarān-. If so, the [[ilk|initial [ɣ] became [g]]], while the long [[ilk|[ā] became [ō]]] and then [[ilk|shortened to [o] in the final syllable of a polysyllable]].

Conceptual Development: An earlier version of this entry had Dor. garan, which likely had a short [a] in the second syllable which was preserved. Since it did not undergo the Ilkorin Syncope, the primitive form likely either had no final vowel or ended in a short [a], so the second [a] was in the final syllable, which seems to have prevented the syncope; this theory is supported by its Quenya cognate ᴹQ. haran.

Doriathrin [Ety/ƷAR; EtyAC/ƷAR; EtyAC/ƷARA] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ho

preposition. from

Doriathrin [PE21/78] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

(n)dak

root. slay

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NDAK; Ety/ÑGWAL; EtyAC/DAK; EtyAC/NAK; PE22/102; PE22/112; PE22/115] Group: Eldamo. Published by

dak

root. slay

Middle Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by