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 Primitive Elvish

yolo

root. smell, stink, reek (intr.)

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶ʒolwéya
    • Eq. olwea “stinking” ✧ PE13/145
    • En. golwai “stinking” ✧ PE13/145; PE13/162
  • ᴱ✶ʒolwḗ
    • Eq. yolme “stench, stink” ✧ PE13/145; PE13/162
    • En. golw “stink, stench” ✧ PE13/145; PE13/162
  • Eq. yolme “stench, stink” ✧ QL/106
  • Eq. yolo- “to stink” ✧ QL/106
  • En. golwad- “to stink”
  • G. gol- “to stink”

Variations

  • Y̯OLO ✧ QL/106
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/106] Group: Eldamo. Published by

fawa

root. smell

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “smell” along with several Qenya derivatives, most unglossed (QL/37). It seems this was a neutral “smell” root based on words in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, such as G. faust “smell, odour (neither pleasant nor unpleasant)” (GL/34). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

  • Eq. fausta “*smell” ✧ QL/037
  • Eq. fausta- “to get smell of” ✧ QL/037
  • G. fau- “to smell, give off a smell”
  • G. faust “smell, odour (neither pleasant nor unpleasant)”
  • G. fost “odour”
  • G. faug “stinking”

Element in

  • Eq. foalóke “serpent that guarded a treasure” ✧ QL/037 (Foaloke*)
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/037] Group: Eldamo. Published by