(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” (q.v. for this meaning of ”of”). 2) na (followed by lenition), with article nan (followed by ”mixed mutation”, according to David Salo’s reconstruction). The preposition has various meanings: ”with, by, near” and also ”to, toward, at; of” 3)
Quenya
-a
suffix. adjectival suffix
Derivations
- ✶-ā “adjectival”
Element in
- Q. airëa “holy (applied to persons)” ✧ PE17/149
- ᴺQ. aitalëa “reverent, worshipful, religious”
- Q. Aldëa “*Tuesday, Tree-day (Númenórean)”
- Q. amaurëa “dawn, early day, morning” ✧ MC/223
- Q. andúna “western”
- ᴺQ. aurëa “sunny, sunlit; *daytime”
- Q. endëa “middle”
- Q. eressëa “lonely” ✧ LotR/1116
- Q. fínëa “dexterous”
- Q. ilaurëa “*daily”
- Q. ilyarëa “*daily”
- Q. ilucara “omnificent” ✧ VT39/20
- Q. laurëa “golden (of hue)”
- Q. lillassëa “having many leaves”
- Q. lilótëa “having many flowers”
- Q. lómëa “shadowed, gloomy, shadowed, gloomy, *dusk-like”
- Q. mírëa “jewelled, jewelled, *gemmed”
- Q. nieninquëa “like a snowdrop” ✧ PE16/096
- Q. nöa “former; yesterday; tomorrow, yesterday; former, *previous; tomorrow”
- ᴺQ. nornolassëa “having oak-leaves”
- Q. núla “dark, occult, mysterious”
- Q. oialëa “eternal”
- Q. rávëa “roaring”
- Q. taurëa “forested”
- Q. túrëa “mighty, masterful, mighty, masterful, *having political power” ✧ PE17/115
- Q. úfanwëa “not veiled, unveiled”
- Q. úpahtëa “speechless”
- Q. vëa “seeming, apparent, seeming, apparent; [ᴱQ.] similar, like”
- Q. yaimëa “wailing”
-mo
suffix. agental suffix
Element in
- ᴺQ. aimo “saint”
- ᴺQ. airimo “priest”
- ᴺQ. alamo “cultivator, grower”
- ᴺQ. alumo “leather-worker”
- ᴺQ. astamo “member”
- Q. astarmo “bystander; witness”
- Q. ciryamo “mariner”
- ᴺQ. cordamo “cleric”
- Q. Curumo “*Skilled-one”
- Q. enelmo “go-between, intervener, intermediary, mediator”
- ᴺQ. epeharmo “president”
- Q. Estelmo “*Hope-person”
- Q. Herucalmo
- ᴺQ. hyólamo “trumpeter”
- Q. ingolmo “loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge, loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge, *scientist”
- Q. Írimon
- Q. Irmo “Desirer”
- Q. Isilmo
- ᴺQ. lingwimo “fisherman”
- Q. Maitimo “Well-shaped One”
- Q. námo “person, somebody (unnamed)”
- Q. Nólimon “*Learned One”
- Q. nolmo “wise person”
- ᴺQ. ongwemo “criminal, transgressor”
- Q. onótimo “*reckoner” ✧ MR/049
- Q. ormo “riser”
- ᴺQ. ostomo “citizen”
- ᴺQ. parmo “student, (lit.) learner”
- ᴺQ. nólemo “student”
- ᴺQ. quernamo “proselyte, convert”
- Q. Súlimo “Lord of the Breath of Arda, (lit.) Breather”
- Q. tirmo “watcher”
- ᴺQ. tungwemo “tax-collector”
- Q. Ulmo “Pourer”
- Q. vinimo “baby, little-one”
- Q. vinyamo “youngster”
- ᴺQ. yulmo “drinker”
Elements
Word Gloss mo “one, anyone, someone, somebody”
-r(o)
suffix. agental suffix
Derivations
- ✶-ro “an old agental formation” ✧ WJ/371
Element in
- Q. Haimenar “*Far-farer”
- Q. Avar “Refuser, Elf who did not journey to Aman” ✧ WJ/371
- Q. Calantar “Light-giver”
- ᴺQ. cuitar “alarm, device to waken somebody”
- Q. Envinyatar “Renewer”
- ᴺQ. hatar “thrower (of spears and darts)”
- Q. Istar “Wizard, (lit.) One Who Knows”
- Q. maitar “artist; poet”
- ᴺQ. mancaro “tradesman, trader, merchant”
- Q. nostar “parent, begetter, *ancestor; parent, begetter”
- Q. ohtar “warrior”
- Q. quentaro “speaker, reciter, speaker, reciter; [ᴹQ.] narrator, minstrel” ✧ PE18/100
- Q. sanar “mind, thinker, reflector” ✧ VT41/13
- ᴺQ. tanar “indicator, [linguistics] demonstrative”
- Q. Telcontar “Strider”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶-rŏ > -r [-ro] > [-r] ✧ WJ/371 Variations
- -ro ✧ PE18/100 (-ro)
- -r ✧ VT41/13 (-r); WJ/371 (-r)
This suffix is frequently used to create the adjective form of a noun, especially in the form -ëa for nouns ending in -ë. This function dates back to CE. ✶-ā.