Quenya 

urra

adjective. nasty, bad

Quenya [PE 22:160, 168] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

úra

adjective. nasty

Changes

  • úraúro “*evil” ✧ VT43/24

Derivations

  • UG “dislike” ✧ VT43/24

Element in

  • Q. násië “but deliver us from evil: Amen” ✧ VT43/24
  • Q. úro “*evil, nastiness”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
UG > úra[ugra] > [uɣra] > [ūra]✧ VT43/24

Variations

  • úra ✧ VT43/24 (úra); VT43/24

Sindarin 

oer

adjective. nasty

Sindarin [PE 22:160] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

oer

adjective. nasty

Derivations

  • ugrā “nasty” ✧ PE22/160
    • UG “dislike” ✧ PE22/160

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ugrā > ogra > oer[ugrā] > [ugra] > [ogra] > [oɣra] > [oira] > [oir] > [oer]✧ PE22/160
Sindarin [PE22/160] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Primitive elvish

uk

root. nasty

The root √OKO was mentioned a couple times in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 with glosses like “wicked, evil” and “evil, bad” serving as the basis for Q. olca/S. ogol “bad, wicked, evil” along with similar words (PE14/149, 170). In other notes from this period Tolkien said √OKO “evil” influenced the meaning of the Sindarin root √AK “hostile return” (PE17/167). In one of these 1959 notes, Tolkien wrote UK, UKLA below OKO with derivatives Q. ulca and S. ogl, all unglossed (PE17/149); Q. ulca was the word Tolkien used most frequently for “evil” in Quenya. In notes from 1968, Tolkien mentioned √UK “nasty” in passing, without giving any derivatives (VT48/25); Patrick Wynne suggested this form of the root may have been connected to 1969 √UG “dislike” (VT48/32 note #15; PE22/160).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I prefer Q. ulca for “evil”, but I think √OKO “wicked” might coexist with it as variant to salvage other words from that root.

Derivatives

  • ulka ✧ VT48/32
    • Q. ulca “evil; dark, gloomy, sinister, evil; dark, gloomy, sinister; [ᴱQ.] bad, wicked, wrong” ✧ PE17/149; VT48/32
    • S. ogol “bad, evil, wrong; gloom(y)” ✧ PE17/149
  • Q. ulco “evil”

Element in

  • ulka ✧ PE17/149; PE17/188

Variations

  • uk ✧ VT48/32 (uk)
Primitive elvish [PE17/149; PE17/188; VT48/25; VT48/32] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ugrā

adjective. nasty

Derivations

  • UG “dislike” ✧ PE22/160

Derivatives

  • Q. úra “torrid, sultry, unpleasantly hot” ✧ PE22/160
  • S. oer “nasty” ✧ PE22/160
Primitive elvish [PE22/160] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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!

Early Quenya

naswa

adjective. nasty

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NASA “taste nasty” ✧ QL/064

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NASA > naswa[naswā] > [naswa]✧ QL/064
Early Quenya [QL/064] Group: Eldamo. Published by