alima adj. "fair, good" (also alya) (PE17:146)
Quenya
-ima
fair
-ima
suffix. -able, ible
-ima
suffix. -able, possibility, -able, [ᴹQ.] -ible, able to be done, [ᴱQ.] possible
Derivations
- ✶-imā “possibility” ✧ PE22/137
Element in
- Q. avanyárima “unspeakable, what one must not tell, not to be told or related”
- Q. calima “bright, luminous” ✧ PE22/137; PE22/155; PE22/156
- Q. cárima “feasible, possible (to do), able to be done, feasible, possible (to do), able to be done, [ᴹQ.] able to be made” ✧ PE22/137; PE22/155
- Q. celima “fluent, fluent, *(lit.) able to flow freely” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. cénima “visible, visible, [ᴹQ.] able to be seen” ✧ PE22/155
- Q. cólima “bearable, light (of burdens and things comparable, troubles, labors, afflications)” ✧ PE22/155
- Q. cúvima “concealable” ✧ PE22/155
- ᴺQ. (e)mecima “accurate, always aiming at the mark”
- Q. férima “ready to hand, (quickly) available”
- Q. Fírima “Mortal, (lit.) One Apt to Die” ✧ WJ/387
- Q. fírima “mortal, *(lit.) able to die” ✧ WJ/387
- Q. írima “desirable, lovely” ✧ PE17/112
- Q. istima “wise (in sense knowing very much), knowledgeable, very well informed, learned” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. lacaltaima “not possible to be kindled” ✧ PE22/155
- ᴺQ. linima “of many kinds, manifold”
- Q. mátima “edible” ✧ PE17/068; PE22/155
- Q. mastima “edible” ✧ PE22/137
- Q. melima “loving, very affectionate, [ᴹQ.] loveable, fair; [Q.] loving, very affectionate” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. métima “last, ultimate, final”
- Q. nísima “fragrant”
- Q. nórima “strong/swift at running, swiftly running a course” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. nótima “countable, limited in number (weight and measure); (colloquial) moderate in amount, some, few, several” ✧ PE17/068; PE22/155
- Q. nútima “*lowerable” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. oholima “confidential”
- Q. púlima “pourable, liquid” ✧ PE22/155
- Q. quétima “speakable, pronounceable, able to be said, speakable, pronounceable, [ᴹQ.] utterable, able to be said”
- Q. rúcima “terrible”
- ᴺQ. telima “final”
- Q. tírima “able to be watched, observable” ✧ PE22/155
- Q. tultaima “*fetchable, summonable” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. túvima “discoverable” ✧ PE22/155
- Q. úfantima “not concealable”
- Q. únyárima “impossible to recount”
- Q. urucárima “hard to make / do”
- ᴺQ. útúrima “unruly”
- ᴺQ. valdima “essential, imperative”
- Q. vanima “beautiful, fair, beautiful, fair, *handsome; [ᴱQ.] proper, right, as it should be, fair” ✧ PE22/156
- Q. vórima “faithful, faithful, *(lit.) able to endure; [ᴹQ.] continuous, enduring, repeated; [ᴱQ.] everlasting”
- Q. yúlima “drinkable” ✧ PE22/155
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶imā > ima [-imā] > [-ima] ✧ PE22/137 Variations
- ¯-ima ✧ PE17/068
- ima ✧ PE22/137; PE22/155; PE22/156
- tima ✧ PE22/137
alima
fair, good
cenima
visible
cenima ("k") adj. "visible" (PE17:175); cf. cen- "see". Read possibly *cénima; see -ima and cf. hraicénima "scarcely visible" (PE17:154).
cénima
adjective. visible
cénima
adjective. visible, visible, [ᴹQ.] able to be seen
Derivations
- √KEN “see, perceive, note, see, perceive, note, [ᴹ√] look at, observe, direct gaze” ✧ PE22/155
Element in
- ᴺQ. alacénima “invisible”
- Q. ascénima “visible, easily seen”
- Q. hraicénima “scarcely visible, hard to see”
- Q. Nasser ar Cenime Cantar Valaron ar Maiaron “The Natures and Visible Shapes of the Valar and Maiar” ✧ PE17/175
- ᴺQ. tercénima “transparent”
- ᴺQ. úcénima “invisible”
Elements
Word Gloss cen- “to see, behold, look, to see, behold, look, *perceive” -ima “-able, possibility, -able, [ᴹQ.] -ible, able to be done, [ᴱQ.] possible” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √KEN > kénima [kēnima] ✧ PE22/155 Variations
- kénima ✧ PE22/155
linda
fair, beautiful
linda adj. "fair, beautiful" (of sound) (SLIN, LIND; VT45:27), "soft, gentle, light" (PE16:96), "beautiful, sweet, melodious of sound" (PE17:150); for Linda as a noun, see Lindar.
alya
fair, good
alya (1) adj. "fair, good" (PE17:146), "prosperous, rich, abundant, blessed" (GALA). In a deleted entry in Etym, the glosses provided were "rich, blessed"; another deleted entry defined alya as "rich, prosperous, blessed". (GALA, [ÁLAM], VT42:32, 45:5, 14)
vanya
fair
vanya (1) adj. "fair" (FS), "beautiful" (BAN), a word referring to beauty that is "due to lack of fault, or blemish" (PE17:150), hence Arda Vanya as an alternative to Arda Alahasta for "Arda Unmarred" (ibid., compare MR:254). Nominal pl. Vanyar "the Fair", the first clan of the Eldar; the original meaning of this stem was "pale, light-coloured, not brown or dark" (WJ:382, 383, stem given as WAN), "properly = white complexion and blonde hair" (PE17:154, stem given as GWAN); stems BAN vs. WAN discussed, see PE17:150.
vanë
fair
vanë adj. "fair" (LT1:272; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather vanya)
vanë
adjective. fair, fair, [ᴱQ.] lovely
Derivations
- √BAN “beauty (due to lack of fault or blemish); fair, beautiful” ✧ PE17/056
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √BAN > vane [bani] > [bane] > [βane] > [vane] ✧ PE17/056 Variations
- vane ✧ PE17/056
ascenë
visible, easily seen
ascenë, ascénima (þ) adj. "visible, easily seen" (PE17:148)
-ima adjectival suffix. Sometimes it is used to derive simple adjectives, like vanima "fair" or calima "bright"; it can also take on the meaning "-able" (PE17:68), as in mátima "edible" (mat- "eat"), nótima "countable" (not- "count") and (with a negative prefix) úquétima "unspeakable" (from quet- "speak"). Note that the stem-vowel is normally lengthened in the derivatives where -ima means "-able", though this fails to occur in cenima "visible" (q.v., but contrast hraicénima, q.v.) and also before a consonant cluster as in úfantima "not concealable" (PE17:176). "X-ima" may mean "apt to X" (when the ending is added to an intransitive verbal stem), as in Fírimar "mortals", literally "those apt to die" (WJ:387). The adj. úfantima "not concealable" (PE17:176) also appears as úfantuma (PE17:180), indicating the existence of a variant ending -uma (possibly used to derive adjectives with a "bad" meaning; compare the ending *-unqua next to -inqua, q.v.)