alas

marble

alas (alast-) noun "marble" (QL:30, GL:39).

orro

interjection. alas!

ai

interjection. ah, alas

Element in

• Q. ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen “ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
• Q. ai! lassi lantar laurië súrinen “ah! leaves fall golden in [by means of] the wind” ✧ RGEO/58

Variations

• Ai! ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58; RGEO/58
• ai! ✧ PE17/061

horro

ugh, alas! ow!

horro (also orro) interjection "ugh, alas! ow!" (said to be an interjection "of horror, pain, disgust") (VT45:17)

orro

ugh, alas! ow!

orro (also horro) "ugh, alas! ow!" (interjection "of horror, pain, disgust") (VT45:17)

ai!

ah!

ai! interjection "Ah!", "Alas!" (Nam, RGEO:66; also twice in Narqelion, untranslated.) In one (abandoned) version of the Quenya Lord's Prayer, Tolkien may seem to use ai as a vocative particle: ai Ataremma ?"o our Father" (VT43:10, 13)

nai

ill, grievously, abominably

nai (2) prefix "ill, grievously, abominably" (PE17:151), cf. naiquet-. Earlier material also lists an interjection nai "alas" _(NAY; this may be obsoleted by # 1 above; _Namárië uses ai! in a similar sense)

alas

noun. marble

Cognates

• ᴺS. glast “marble”

Derivations

• ᴺ✶. galast- “marble, (orig.) thing pleasant to touch”
  • ᴹ√GALAS “joy, be glad”
  • ᴹ√GAL “grow, thrive” ✧ Ety/GALA

Element in

• ᴺQ. alasta “of marble, marble”