Quenya 

-ndo

suffix. masculine agent

Cognates

  • S. -on “masculine suffix”

Derivations

Element in

-ndon

similative

-ndon, case-ending for "similative": wilwarindon "like a butterfly" (see wilwarin), laurendon "like gold" _(PE17:58) In the post-LotR period Tolkien decided to abandon this ending, apparently because it was to similar to the agental suffix -ndo (PE17:58)_, and it does not appear in the Plotz decension.

-ndon

suffix. -like, -ily

Variations

  • -ndo ✧ PE17/074
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-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

WordGloss
mo“one, anyone, someone, somebody”
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-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

DevelopmentStagesSources
-rŏ > -r[-ro] > [-r]✧ WJ/371

Variations

  • -ro ✧ PE18/100 (-ro)
  • -r ✧ VT41/13 (-r); WJ/371 (-r)
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