meneg
cardinal. thousand
meneg
cardinal. thousand, thousand, *a large number
meneg
cardinal. thousand
#meneg (isolated from Menegroth ”Thousand Caves”, assuming this translation to be literal).
meneg
thousand
(isolated from Menegroth ”Thousand Caves”, assuming this translation to be literal).
húmë
cardinal. thousand
húmë (1) numeral "thousand" (PE13:50). Pl. húmi is attested (used in connection with other numbers, as in "two thousand", i.e. "two thousands").
húmë
cardinal. thousand; †great number
mencë
cardinal. thousand
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!
moth(in)
noun. 1000; †flock
mothwen
noun. 1000; †flock
húme
cardinal. thousand; †great number
The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had several different words for “thousand”. The manuscript version had ᴱQ. {súme >> húme >> ellume >>} húme “thousand”, originally meaning “a great number” (PE14/50 and note #56). The typescript version had ᴱQ. maite (maisi-) “thousand” (PE14/83).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I use ᴺQ. húmë “thousand” since Q. maitë means “handy; handed” in Tolkien’s later writings. Some Neo-Quenya writers prefer ᴺQ. mencë “thousand” as a hypothetical cognate to S. meneg.
maite
cardinal. thousand
tuksainen
cardinal. thousand
tuksa kainen
cardinal. thousand
A variant word for “thousand” from the Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s as a combination of ᴱQ. tuksa “hundred” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten”, following the pattern of words like ᴱQ. kan(ta)kainen “forty” (PE14/50, 83). Properly it is tuksa kainen, shortened to either tuksakainen or tuksainen. Compare ᴱQ. húme “thousand”.
yúyo húmi
cardinal. two thousand
meneg
cardinal. thousand
A Doriathrin word meaning “thousand” (or possibly just “✱large in number”) attested only as an element in the name Dor. Menegroth “Thousand Caves” (Ety/ROD, LR/220). Its etymology is unclear.
A word for a “thousand” implied by the name Menegroth “Thousand Caves” (S/56; WJ/415). It is possible this word simply means “✱a large number” rather than being precisely 1000.
Conceptual Development: In the 1930s, the name Menegroth was Ilkorin (Ety/ROD), and thus the word meneg likely also belonged to that language. The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. moth(in) or mothwen “thousand”, originally meaning “flock” and related to G. moth “sheep” (GL/58).