Quenya 

-ya

suffix. adjective suffix

Derivations

  • -yā “present participle” ✧ PE17/068

Element in

  • Q. Aldúya “*Tuesday, Day of the Two Trees”
  • Q. Amanyar “Those of Aman”
  • Q. Anarya “Sunday, (lit.) Sun-day”
  • Q. apacenya “of foresight”
  • Q. attalya “biped, *(lit.) two-footed”
  • ᴺQ. cantalya “four-legged, quadruped, (lit.) four-footed”
  • Q. -carya “doing” ✧ PE17/068
  • Q. Eärenya “Sea-day, *Thursday”
  • Q. elenya “adjective referring to the stars, *of the stars, stellar”
  • Q. entya “central, middle”
  • Q. firya “mortal; human, [ᴹQ.] human; [Q.] mortal”
  • Q. Isilya “*Monday, Moon-day”
  • Q. -matya “-eating” ✧ PE17/068
  • Q. Menelya “*Wednesday, Heavens-day”
  • Q. minya “first; eminent, prominent”
  • Q. Narya “(Ring) of Fire”
  • Q. Nenya “(Ring) of Water”
  • ᴺQ. ruimenya “fireside, by the fire”
  • Q. tatya “second”
  • Q. tercenya “of insight”
  • Q. Valanya “*Friday, Vala-day”
  • Q. Vilya “(Ring) of Air”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
-ı̯ā > -ya[-jā] > [-ja]✧ PE17/068

Variations

  • -ya ✧ PE17/068 (-ya)

Sindarin 

-iel

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Variations

  • -iel ✧ S/235 (-iel)

-ren

suffix. adjective suffix

@@@ perhaps a later, S-only, innovation

Cognates

  • Q. -rin “-ian, racial-adjective, language”

Element in

-eb

suffix. adjective suffix

Cognates

  • Q. -inqua “-ful, complete” ✧ WJ/412

Derivations

  • -ikwā “-ful, adjectival suffix” ✧ WJ/412
    • KWA “complete, full, whole, all, every, complete, full, whole, all, every; [ᴹ√] something” ✧ WJ/412; WJ/415

Element in

  • S. aglareb “glorious, brilliant, glorious, brilliant, *radiant” ✧ WJ/412
  • ᴺS. eitheb “thorny, *(orig.) full of points; sharp”
  • S. ereb “single, alone, lonely, single, alone, lonely, [N.] isolated”
  • S. fíreb “mortal”
  • ᴺS. glidheb “like honey”
  • S. gorthob “horrible”
  • S. maecheneb “sharp-eye[d]” ✧ WJ/337
  • ᴺS. maeligeb “wealthy, rich”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ikwā > -ipā > -eb[-ikwā] > [-ipā] > [-ipa] > [-epa] > [-ep] > [-eb]✧ WJ/412
Sindarin [WJ/337; WJ/412] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-en

suffix. adjective suffix

Derivations

  • -inā “adjective; passive participle”

Element in

  • S. aewen “of birds” ✧ SA/lin¹
  • ᴺS. anóren “sunny”
  • S. dínen “silent” ✧ PE17/098
  • S. firin “mortal, dying, dying, mortal; [N.] human”
  • S. glórin “*golden, golden, [G.] of gold”
  • S. lossen “snowy” ✧ RGEO/62
  • ᴺS. mirwelthen “vintage, *(lit.) wine pressing”
  • S. rhúnen “eastern”
  • S. thurin “secret, hidden”
  • S. tolothen “eighth” ✧ SD/129

Variations

  • -en ✧ PE17/098 (-en); RGEO/62 (-en); SA/lin¹ (-en); SD/129
Sindarin [PE17/098; RGEO/62; SA/lin¹; SD/129] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-in

suffix. adjective suffix

Telerin 

-ya

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • T. canatya “fourth” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. enetya “sixth” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. lepenya “fifth” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. minya “first” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. nelya “third” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. neterya “ninth” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. ototya “seventh” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. paianya “tenth” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. tatya “second” ✧ VT42/25
  • T. tolodya “eighth” ✧ VT42/25

Noldorin 

-iel

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • N. gloriel “golden” ✧ Ety/LÁWAR
  • N. niniel “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI

Variations

  • -iel ✧ Ety/LÁWAR (-iel); Ety/NEI (-iel)
Noldorin [Ety/LÁWAR; Ety/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ren

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Variations

  • -rin ✧ RS/432 (-rin)
Noldorin [Ety/ANGĀ; Ety/GLAM; Ety/KHYAR; Ety/KWET; Ety/KYELEP; Ety/LUM; Ety/PHAL; Ety/PHOR; Ety/TATHAR; RS/432] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-rin

suffix. adjective suffix

-eb

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Noldorin [Ety/AKLA-R; Ety/DYEL; Ety/KAY; Ety/OY] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-en

suffix. adjective suffix

Cognates

  • Ilk. -en “adjectival suffix”
  • ᴹQ. -ina “adjective suffix; passive participle”

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶-ina “adjective”

Element in

  • N. Alchorin “Not-of-Kôr”
  • N. brassen “white-hot, *very hot” ✧ Ety/BARAS
  • N. dolen “hidden, secret” ✧ Ety/DUL
  • N. firen “human” ✧ Ety/PHIR
  • N. gwelwen “air, lower air” ✧ Ety/WIL
  • N. lhaden “flat (and wide); open, cleared, flat (and wide); open, cleared; [ᴱN.] smooth”
  • N. malthen “of gold” ✧ Ety/SMAL
  • N. meglin “*bear-like” ✧ Ety/LIS
  • N. methen “end, final” ✧ Ety/MET
  • N. pichen “juicy, juicy, *oozing” ✧ Ety/PIS
  • N. tawaren “wooden” ✧ Ety/TÁWAR
  • N. tithen “little, tiny”

Variations

  • -in ✧ Ety/LIS (-in)
Noldorin [Ety/BARAS; Ety/DUL; Ety/LIS; Ety/MET; Ety/PHIR; Ety/PIS; Ety/SMAL; Ety/TÁWAR; Ety/WIL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-in

suffix. adjective suffix

-ui

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • N. bronadui “enduring, lasting”
  • N. crumui “left-handed” ✧ Ety/KURÚM
  • N. edraenui “?outside, bordering, outer” ✧ EtyAC/REG (edraenui)
  • N. Erchamui “One-handed”
  • N. gellui “triumphant” ✧ Ety/GYEL
  • N. hithui “misty”
  • N. istui “learned” ✧ Ety/IS
  • N. lithui “ash[en]”
  • N. moelui “lustful” ✧ Ety/MIL-IK
  • N. milui “friendly, loving, kind” ✧ Ety/MEL
  • N. nenui “wet”
  • N. nínui “*tearful”
  • N. Odothui “Seventh”
  • N. uanui “monstrous” ✧ Ety/BAN
  • N. Úrui “August, *Hot-one”
Noldorin [Ety/BAN; Ety/GYEL; Ety/IS; Ety/KURÚM; Ety/MEL; Ety/MIL-IK; EtyAC/REG] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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Qenya 

-voite

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
-ite“(verbal) adjective ending”

-ya

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Gnomish

-(i)ol

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. aglar(i)ol “glorious” ✧ GL/17
  • G. barchol “terrible, awful” ✧ GL/22
  • G. bodruithol “vengeful (by nature)” ✧ GL/23 (bodruithol)
  • G. bronniol “constant, faithful” ✧ GL/24
  • G. cancol “laughing” ✧ GL/24 (cancol)
  • G. cauthiol “tasteful, endowed with good taste; discreet, circumspect” ✧ GL/24
  • G. clochiol “stone” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gumriol “burdensome” ✧ GL/43
  • G. cucthol “painstaking” ✧ GL/27
  • G. cunghol “painstaking” ✧ GL/27
  • G. diriol “tedious” ✧ GL/30
  • G. drauthiol “arduous, labourious” ✧ GL/30
  • G. egriol “excessive”
  • G. enwiol “nominal” ✧ GL/32
  • G. dairiol “merry (of things), funny” ✧ GL/29
  • G. glarossiol “dazzling” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glôriol “golden, like gold” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gudhriol “inflamed, inflammatory” ✧ GL/42
  • G. gwassiol “rushing, noisy, loud, rustling or splashing” ✧ GL/44
  • G. gwenniniol “maiden(ly), girlish” ✧ GL/45
  • G. gwilbriniol “like a butterfly” ✧ GL/45
  • G. gwirthol “reluctant” ✧ GL/46
  • G. bridol “changing, varying, variable” ✧ GL/24
  • G. hadhol “abiding; enduring, constant, faithful” ✧ GL/47
  • G. hadruithol “vengeful” ✧ GL/47
  • G. hiriol “anxious” ✧ GL/49
  • G. gwiniol “feminine” ✧ GL/45
  • G. gimriol “audible, noticeable” ✧ GL/38
  • G. gwesol “affable” ✧ GL/47
  • G. gothriol “warlike” ✧ GL/42
  • G. brigol “afraid; fearful, timid” ✧ GL/24

Variations

  • -ol ✧ GL/17 (-ol); GL/22 (-ol); GL/23 (-ol); GL/24 (-ol); GL/24 (-ol); GL/24 (-ol); GL/27 (-ol); GL/27 (-ol); GL/38 (-ol); GL/42 (-ol); GL/42 (-ol); GL/43 (-ol); GL/46 (-ol); GL/47 (-ol); GL/47 (-ol); GL/47 (-ol)
  • -iol ✧ GL/24 (-iol); GL/24 (-iol); GL/29 (-iol); GL/30 (-iol); GL/30 (-iol); GL/32 (-iol); GL/39 (-iol); GL/40 (-iol); GL/40 (-iol); GL/44 (-iol); GL/45 (-iol); GL/45 (-iol); GL/45 (-iol); GL/49 (-iol)
Gnomish [GL/17; GL/22; GL/23; GL/24; GL/27; GL/29; GL/30; GL/32; GL/38; GL/39; GL/40; GL/42; GL/43; GL/44; GL/45; GL/46; GL/47; GL/49] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-r(i)ol

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Variations

  • -rol ✧ GL/17 (-rol); GL/25 (-rol); GL/48 (-rol)
  • -riol ✧ GL/24 (-riol); GL/25 (-riol); GL/29 (-riol); GL/32 (-riol); GL/42 (-riol)
Gnomish [GL/17; GL/24; GL/25; GL/29; GL/32; GL/42; GL/48] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-(r)in

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. angrin “of iron, iron” ✧ GL/19
  • G. anothrin “adult (of men), fullgrown; manly” ✧ GL/19
  • G. aulin “wrong” ✧ GL/20
  • G. baldrin “mighty” ✧ GL/21
  • G. belin “expanded, unrolled, unfurled, set (of sails)” ✧ GL/22
  • G. benin “shapely, pretty” ✧ GL/22
  • G. bedhin “wedded, married” ✧ GL/22
  • G. felegrin “equable” ✧ GL/34
  • G. felthadrin “probable” ✧ GL/34
  • G. blethrin “gracious, kind” ✧ GL/23
  • G. celchin “of glass” ✧ GL/25
  • G. celebrin “of silver” ✧ GL/25
  • G. cîrin “present (place or time), modern” ✧ GL/26
  • G. clogrin “stony, stone-like” ✧ GL/26
  • G. codrin “nutty” ✧ GL/26
  • G. crogin “hooked” ✧ GL/27
  • G. culwin “golden” ✧ GL/27
  • G. curin “magical” ✧ GL/28 (curin)
  • G. dribin “worn out” ✧ GL/30
  • G. elegrin “different, strange” ✧ GL/32
  • G. Egladrin
  • G. egrin “wide, vast, broad; far” ✧ GL/32
  • G. erethrin “isolated, solitary, lonely” ✧ GL/33
  • G. embrin “by name, named” ✧ GL/32 (embrin)
  • G. fadrin “sufficient” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fadin “sated, saturated” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fathrin “tasselled” ✧ GL/34
  • G. fegrin “free” ✧ QL/037
  • G. fidhrin “haired”
  • G. flathrin “foamy, tasseled” ✧ GL/35
  • G. fofrin “foolish” ✧ GL/35
  • G. gaisin “of steel” ✧ GL/37
  • G. gaithrin “like steel” ✧ GL/37
  • G. gedrin “sib, akin” ✧ GL/38
  • G. gîrin “bygone, old, belonging to former days, olden, former, ancient” ✧ GL/38
  • G. glanthin “cleanly, pure” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glanwethrin “cleanly, pure” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glastrin “marble” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glathrin “brilliant, lucent” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glen(d)rin “slender” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glôrin “golden, of gold” ✧ GL/40
  • G. glothrin “white, clear white” ✧ GL/40
  • G. godaithri(o)n “learned, educated” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gudhrin “inflamed, burning hot” ✧ GL/42
  • G. haithin “gone, departed, lost” ✧ GL/47
  • G. fedhin “bound by agreement; ally, friend”
  • G. gwegrin “masculine” ✧ GL/44
  • G. ganothrin “youthful” ✧ GL/37
  • G. giothrin “embryonic” ✧ GL/39
  • G. celegrin “glassy, like glass” ✧ GL/25
  • G. hethrin “of the same family (in a close sense), consanguine” ✧ GL/48
  • G. haugrin “lowly, humble, mean” ✧ GL/48
  • G. cagrin “funny, amusing” ✧ GL/24
  • G. glingrin “musical” ✧ GL/39
  • G. ausin “rich; fortune” ✧ GL/20
  • G. gwethrin “welcome, acceptable” ✧ GL/47
  • G. fagin “cut” ✧ GL/33
  • G. singrin “salt”
  • G. aurin “made (by craft of hand), wrought, fashioned” ✧ GL/20
  • G. gerin “metallic” ✧ GL/38
  • G. fostrin “odorous” ✧ GL/36

Variations

  • -rin ✧ GL/19 (-rin); GL/19 (-rin); GL/21 (-rin); GL/23 (-rin); GL/24 (-rin); GL/25 (-rin); GL/25 (-rin); GL/26 (-rin); GL/26 (-rin); GL/26 (-rin); GL/32 (-rin); GL/32 (-rin); GL/32 (-rin); GL/33 (-rin); GL/33 (-rin); GL/34 (-rin); GL/34 (-rin); GL/34 (-rin); GL/35 (-rin); GL/35 (-rin); GL/36 (-rin); GL/37 (-rin); GL/37 (-rin); GL/38 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/40 (-rin); GL/40 (-rin); GL/44 (-rin); GL/47 (-rin); GL/48 (-rin); GL/48 (-rin); QL/037 (-rin)
  • -in ✧ GL/20 (-in); GL/20 (-in); GL/20 (-in); GL/22 (-in); GL/22 (-in); GL/22 (-in); GL/25 (-in); GL/27 (-in); GL/27 (-in); GL/28 (-in); GL/30 (-in); GL/33 (-in); GL/33 (-in); GL/37 (-in); GL/38 (-in); GL/38 (-in); GL/39 (-in); GL/40 (-in); GL/42 (-in); GL/47 (-in)
Gnomish [GL/19; GL/20; GL/21; GL/22; GL/23; GL/24; GL/25; GL/26; GL/27; GL/28; GL/30; GL/32; GL/33; GL/34; GL/35; GL/36; GL/37; GL/38; GL/39; GL/40; GL/42; GL/44; GL/47; GL/48; QL/037] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ra

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. gwandra “beautiful” ✧ LT1A/Vána
  • G. gwadhra “habitable” ✧ GL/47
  • G. bodra “back(ward), hinder, rear” ✧ GL/23
  • G. cingra “plaited” ✧ GL/26
  • G. hadra “opposing, facing, opposite; equivalent” ✧ GL/47
  • G. egra “distant, far away” ✧ GL/32
  • G. aithra “piercing, sharp; thorny” ✧ GL/18
  • G. fodra “the last, latest, endmost” ✧ GL/35
  • G. hamra “lowly, lowlying; base” ✧ GL/48
  • G. hagra “seated” ✧ GL/47

Variations

  • -ra ✧ GL/18 (-ra); GL/23 (-ra); GL/26 (-ra); GL/32 (-ra); GL/35 (-ra); GL/47 (-ra); GL/47 (-ra); GL/47 (-ra); GL/48 (-ra); LT1A/Vána (-ra)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/23; GL/26; GL/32; GL/35; GL/47; GL/48; LT1A/Vána] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-wed

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. caithonwed “original” ✧ GL/24
  • G. celchwed “glassy” ✧ GL/25
  • G. clogwed “stony, stone-covered” ✧ GL/26
  • G. codwed “nutbearing” ✧ GL/26
  • G. dairwed “merry, funny (common)” ✧ GL/29
  • G. deldrinwed “beechen” ✧ GL/30
  • G. drogwed “servile, slavish; base, mean” ✧ GL/31
  • G. faronwed “foreign” ✧ GL/34
  • G. egwed “far, distant” ✧ PE13/113
  • G. fathwed “tasselled” ✧ GL/34
  • G. galwed “brilliant, shining” ✧ PE13/114
  • G. godaithrinwed “grammatical” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gonwed “rocky” ✧ GL/41
  • G. grithonwed “thoughtful, careful; unselfish” ✧ GL/42
  • G. gwavwed “windy” ✧ GL/43
  • G. gwegwed “male” ✧ GL/44
  • G. hilwed “adolescent” ✧ GL/49
  • G. in(d)wed “indoors, at home; homely, domestic(ated)”
  • G. gwinwed “female” ✧ GL/45
  • G. erwed “unique” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fedhwed “lawful”
  • G. calwed “flourishing, adolescent” ✧ GL/25
  • G. fabwed “corpulent” ✧ GL/34
Gnomish [GL/24; GL/25; GL/26; GL/29; GL/30; GL/31; GL/33; GL/34; GL/40; GL/41; GL/42; GL/43; GL/44; GL/45; GL/49; PE13/113; PE13/114] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-thol Reconstructed

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Early Noldorin

-ui

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • En. inathui “innumerable” ✧ PE13/148
Early Noldorin [PE13/148] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

-noina

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • Eq. hestanoina “bearing the nearest consanguinity” ✧ QL/040
  • Eq. vestanoina “related by marriage” ✧ QL/101

Elements

WordGloss
-ina“adjectival suffix”
Early Quenya [QL/040; QL/101] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-noite

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
-ite“adjective ending”
Early Quenya [PE15/69; QL/039; QL/067; QL/077; QL/080; QL/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-voite

suffix. adjective suffix

@@@ sometimes with stem voisi-: kuluvoite, mavoite,

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
-ite“adjective ending”
Early Quenya [QL/029; QL/031; QL/048; QL/049; QL/051; QL/055; QL/057; QL/062; QL/078; QL/083; QL/096; QL/098; QL/100; QL/102] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-se

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • Eq. ankasse(a) “lofty, tall, (lit.) up-headed, high-headed” ✧ QL/030
  • Eq. simpise “piping, whistling” ✧ QL/084
Early Quenya [QL/030; QL/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-wa

suffix. adjective suffix

-ya

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • Eq. erya “only, single” ✧ PE14/082
  • Eq. arinya “fireside” ✧ QL/032
Early Quenya [PE14/082; QL/032] Group: Eldamo. Published by