dark elf
Telerin
abar
noun. Dark Elf; (lit.) Refuser
Adûnaic
abâr
noun. strength, endurance, fidelity
Sindarin
avar
proper name. Refuser
Noldorin
morbenn
proper name. Dark Elf
Primitive elvish
abar(o)
noun. refuser, recusant, one who refuses to act as advised or commanded
Quenya
Moriquen(de)
noun. dark elf
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 Noldorin
rhôg
noun. strength
A noun for “strength” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/152).
Conceptual Development: G. rôg “doughty, strong” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, along with an unglossed word rog with short o (GL/65).
Early Quenya
nertu
noun. strength
A noun for “strength” appearing in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, derived from the early root ᴱ√NERE, whose derivatives mostly had to do with men and manliness (QL/65; PME/65).
Doriathrin
bel
noun. strength
An Ilkorin word for “strength”, developed from primitive ᴹ✶belē (Ety/BEL), an example of how final vowels vanished in Ilkorin.
Old Noldorin
belle
noun. strength
Middle Primitive Elvish
belē
noun. strength
tū
noun. strength
A noun translated as “strength, endurance, fidelity”, and used as an example of noun declension in Lowdham’s Report (SD/431). Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne suggested (AAD/9) that it may be related to the Elvish root ᴹ√BOR(ON) “endure”. It may also be related to the name Abrazân “✱Steadfast, Faithful”.
Conceptual Development: This word also appeared in earlier Adûnaic names Zen’nabâr and Abarzâyan (both glossed “Land of Gift”), where it apparently had the meaning “gift”. These names were eventually replaced by Yôzâyan in which the element yô means “gift”, freeing abâr to have the meaning: “strength, endurance, fidelity”.