Quenya 

Aino

god

Aino noun "god", within Tolkien's mythos a synonym of Ainu (but since Aino is basically only a personalized form of aina "holy", hence "holy one", it could be used as a general word for "god") (PE15:72)

aino

noun. god

Cognates

Derivations

  • AYA(N) “blessed; treat with awe/reverence, blessed; treat with awe/reverence; [ᴱ√] honour, revere”

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
aina“holy, revered, numinous, holy, revered, numinous, *divine, [ᴱQ.] worshipful”
Quenya Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

Sindarin 

aenor

noun. god

A neologism for “a god” opposed to “God” (Eru), based on Gnomish ain. A direct adaptation of the Gnomish form would be aen, but that conflicts with aen “should be”; Fiona Jallings suggested the extended form aenor in a Discord chat in August 2019.

Cognates

  • ᴺQ. aino “god”

Derivations

  • AYA(N) “blessed; treat with awe/reverence, blessed; treat with awe/reverence; [ᴱ√] honour, revere”
Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

Eru

god

(the One) #Eru, isolated from Eruchín** **"children of the One" (= Elves and Men; sg. *Eruchen).

eru

noun. God

Cognates

  • Q. Eru “The One, God”
Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

eru

god

isolated from Eruchín "children of the One" (= Elves and Men; sg. ✱Eruchen).


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Gnomish

ain

noun. god

Changes

  • GainonAinon ✧ PE13/103

Cognates

  • Eq. Ainu “a (pagan) God” ✧ PE15/20; PE15/27; LT1A/Ainur; PE13/103

Derivations

  • ᴱ√AYA “honour, revere” ✧ GL/18

Element in

  • G. ainil “(female) god” ✧ GL/18; LT1A/Ainur
  • G. ainos “(male) god” ✧ GL/18; LT1A/Ainur

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√aı̯¹ > Ain[ainu] > [ain]✧ GL/18

Variations

  • Ain ✧ GL/18; LT1A/Ainur
  • Gainon ✧ PE13/103 (Gainon)
Gnomish [GL/18; LT1A/Ainur; PE13/103; PE15/20; PE15/27] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

ainatar

masculine name. God, (lit.) Holy Father

A name for Ilúvatar appearing in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa from the 1910s (QL/34, PME/34). It is a compound of aina “holy” and atar “father”.

Elements

WordGloss
aina“holy, revered, worshipful”
atar“father”
Early Quenya [LT1A/Ainur; PME/034; QL/034] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vala

noun. God

Cognates

  • G. Ban “god, one of the Valar” ✧ GL/21; LT2A/Valar; PE15/21; GL/18; PE13/103
  • G. Gwala “one of the gods” ✧ PE15/08; PE15/08

Derivations

  • ᴱ√WALA “fortune, happiness; *power” ✧ QL/099

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√VALA > Valar[βalar] > [valar]✧ QL/099
Early Quenya [GL/18; GL/21; LBI/Valar; LT1/061; LT1A/Valar; LT1I/Valar; LT2A/Valar; LT2I/Valar; PE13/103; PE14/010; PE15/08; PE15/21; PE15/72; PME/099; QL/039; QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by