-nna "to, at, upon", allative ending, originating from -na "to" with fortified n, VT49:14. Attested in cilyanna, coraryanna, Endorenna, Elendilenna, númenórenna, parma-restalyanna, rénna, senna, tielyanna, q.v. If a noun ends in -n already, the ending -nna merges with it, as in Amanna, formenna, Elenna, númenna, rómenna as the allative forms of Aman, formen, elen, númen, rómen (q.v.). Plural -nnar in mannar, valannar, q.v.
Quenya
-ssë
at
-nna
to, at, upon
-nna
suffix. (movement) to, towards, onto, at (arriving at a point); allative suffix
allumë
adverb. never, never, *at no time, [ᴹQ.] at no date
An adverb for “never” appearing in drafts of the Löa Yucainen poem from 1958 (CPT/1297), probably a combination of the negative prefix al(a)- with lúmë “time”.
Conceptual Development: Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/111) also had ᴹQ. allume, but in that document it was glossed “at no date” and had a variant láqallume with prefixal láqa- (PE23/109, PE23/110 note #121). This document also had ᴹQ. allan “never” and {aláqan, láqan(an) >>} lálan, allanan “at no time”, combinations of ᴹQ. alla “none” and ᴹQ. -n(an) “time” (PE23/109 and note #114). Drafts had {lá >>} alla “never, at no time” (PE23/110 note #121).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would stick with Q. allumë for “never”, since I believe ᴹQ. -n(an) has abandoned.
andavë
long, at great length
andavë adv. "long, at great length" (PE17:102); see anda
antanen hatal sena
I cast a spear at him
anya-
verb. go to, reach,arrive at
anya-
verb. to reach, arrive at, go to, to reach, arrive at, go to; *to manage, succeed (at something) + infinitive
A verb for “reach, arrive at, go to” in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, derived from the root √ANA “to(wards)” (PE22/157, 163).
Conceptual Development: An earlier verb for “arrive” was tenya- “arrive, end (not at speaker’s[?] place)” in notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s (VT49/24; VTE/49). A similar verb reappeared in notes from 1968 as tene “arrive, come to, get to” from a root √TEN, but in that note the ten- forms were rejected and changed to men-. Elsewhere men- was used in the more general sense “go” or “come” (PE17/13, 16; PE22/162), whereas in the 1969 Ambidexters Sentence, the verb tenta- was used to mean “point at” (VT49/6-8).
Luinyelle suggested that a form of anya- “arrive” (or a similar verb) might appear in the sentence [ᴹQ.] Sorni Númevalion anner “The Eagles of the Powers of the West are at hand” from the 1940s, with anner being a strong-past from ancient ✱an-nē, so the literal meaning of the sentence is “the Eagles ... arrived”. I think this is a plausible theory, but given the gap in years between this sentence and the appearance of anya- “arrive”, it is hard to say.
Neo-Quenya: Of the various options, I think anya- is the best Neo-Quenya verb for “arrive”. I further assume it is a half-strong verb with past tense ananye “arrived”; I prefer this as more distinctive than a strong past anne. I would use it both intransitively and transitively (without a preposition), as in ananyen “I arrived” vs. ananyen i osto “I arrived [at] the city = I reached the city”.
In a post on 2024-01-31 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Luinyelle suggested it might be used in the idiomatic sense “manage, succeed (in something)” when combined with the infinitive of another verb: ananyen pare Quenya “I managed to learn Quenya” = “(lit.) I arrived [at] learning Quenya”.
aquet
answer
[aquet noun? vb? "answer" (PE17:166)]
asumo
noun. good companion,friend at need,colleague
ca
behind, at back of place
ca, cata, cana prep? "behind, at back of place" (VT43:30)
ca
preposition. behind, at back of place
ca(ta)
preposition. behind, at back of place, behind, at back of place; [ᴹQ.] after [of time]
A preposition appearing as ca, cata, cana “behind, at back of place” in notes from the mid-1950s (VT43/30). In notes associated with the Aia María prayer from the 1950s Tolkien wrote the forms canye, calye, ca- (VT43/29), probably related to carelye from the 2nd version of the prayer (VT43/27), though in the prayer its position implies the English meaning “with thee”.
Conceptual Development: The 1948 Quenya Verbal System had the word ᴹQ. kata as a preposition meaning “after [of time]” in the phrase ᴹQ. kanya ére kata tulma alwara “to be wise after the event is useless”, along with an adverb ᴹQ. kato “afterwards” in another variant of the phrase (PE22/124). These were probably related to Cad- in words like N. Cadloer “July, ✱After-summer” in drafts of The Lord of the Rings appendices from around this period (PM/136).
cana
preposition. behind, at back of place
endaquet-
verb. answer
endaquet- vb. "answer" (gloss uncertain) (PE17:167)
es
the eagles of the lords are at hand
es unidentified word in the phrase es sorni heruion an! "the Eagles of the Lords are at hand" (SD:290); possibly an assimilated form of en, that may function as a kind of deitic particle here: *"Behold the Eagles..."
feuya-
feel disgust at, abhor
feuya- verb "feel disgust at, abhor" (PHEW, VT46:9)
hanquenta
answer
hanquenta vb.? noun? "answer" (PE17:176)
hanquenta
noun. answer, answer, *response
@@@ gloss “response” suggested by Tamas Ferencz
hlóna
river, especially given to those at all seasons full of water from mountains
[hlóna (2) noun "a river, especially given to those at all seasons full of water from mountains" (VT48:27; the word is marked with a query and the note containing it rejected; it was apparently replaced by lón, q.v.)]
nai laurë lantuva parmastanna lúmissen tengwiesto
may (a) golden light fall on your book at the times of your reading
nésë nórima rocco
he was a horse strong/swift at running
néya
adverb. once, at one time
A word for “once” = “at one time (in the past)”, an adjectival form of né “ago” (VT49/31). It has two variants néya and nea. Compare also [ᴱQ.] ellume “once” = “one time”: á care sa ellume “do it once [one time only]” vs. carnes sa néya “he/she did it once [in the past]”. Very likely néya more strongly implies “pastness” than “oneness” and does not literally mean “only one time”, which could instead be expressed: carnes sa ellume.
nëa
once, at one time
nëa (1) "once, at one time" (in the past) (VT49:31). Also néya.
nëa
adverb. once, at one time
nórima
strong/swift at running
nórima adj. "strong/swift at running" (VT49:29); see nor-
oromet
place name. ?Hill at the End
pirindë
flower that opened and shut quickly with any change of light at [?some ?not] even a pansy closed
pirindë noun "a flower that opened and shut quickly with any change of light at [?some ?not] even a pansy closed" (PE17:146; reading uncertain and meaning obscure; read perhaps "…at [which] not even a pansy closed") Also pirnë.
se
at, in
se (2), also long sé, preposition "at, in" (VT43:30; compare the "locative prefix" se- possibly occurring in an early "Qenya" text, VT27:25)
se
preposition. at, in
senda
resting, at peace
senda adj. "resting, at peace" (SED)
ser-
verb. rest,repose;stay, tarry, be at the moment
silumë
at this time
silumë adv. "at this time" (VT49:11, 18). Compare talumë, #sillumë.
sinan
adverb. at present
sí ar lúmessë ya firuvammë: násië
now and at the hour of our death: Amen
The seventh line of Aia María, Tolkien’s translation of the Ave Maria prayer. The first few words are sí ar lúmessë “now and at [the] hour”, the last being a combination of the noun lúmë “time” (“hour”) and the locative suffix -ssë “at, in, on”. The next two words are a subordinate clause: ya firuvammë “✱when we will die”, the latter being future 1st-person-plural-exclusive form of the verb fir- “to die”. The last word, násië “Amen”, is also used by Tolkien in the Quenya prayer Átaremma.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> sí ar lúme-ssë ya fir-uva-mmë: násië = “✱now and time-at when die-(future)-we: amen”
Less literally: “✱now and at the time when we will die”.
Conceptual Development: The first few words sí ar lúmesse are the nearly same in all versions of the prayer, except (a) the accents are omitted from si and lumesse in version I and (b) Tolkien considered and rejected a variant form are for ar “and” (as he did in line four).
In the first two versions of the prayer Tolkien used a Quenya word for “of our death”: fíriemmo (I) and effíriemmo (II). In both cases, the noun is (ef)fírie “death” with the first person plural exclusive possessive suffix -mma “our” and the genitive suffix -o “of”. In the version I, these forms were preceded by some incomplete and difficult-to-decipher forms; for details see VT43/27, 34-35.
The word násië “Amen” appears only in the last two versions of the prayer (III-IV).
| |  I  | II |III|IV| |si|sí| |ar|{are >>} ar|ar| |lumesse|lúmesse| |{urtulm >> urt >> menya >>}|i fíriemmo|effíriemmo|yá firuvamme|ya firuvamme| | |násie|
talumë
at this time
talumë adv. "at this time" meaning "at the time we are thinking of of speaking of", not referring to the present (which is silumë = "at this time" in the narrower sense). (VT49:11)
talumë
adverb. at that time
tatalla-
verb. marvel at
tulinwa
arrived, now at hand
tóquet-
verb. answer
[tóquet- vb. "answer" (PE17:166)]
uman
at one time(?)
yallumë
at last
yallumë adv.? "at last" (FS)
yéta-
verb. look at
yéta- vb. "look at" (LT1:262) Compare yé #1.
annún
adverb. at least
A neologism for “at least” coined by Tamas Ferencz based on √NU “down”.
maryë
adverb. at home, at home, *indoors
mehta-
verb. to aim at
nangwesa
noun. answer
-ssë (1) locative ending (compare the preposition se, sé "at", q.v.); in Lóriendessë, lúmessë, máriessë, yalúmessë (q.v. for reference); pl. -ssen in yassen, lúmissen, mahalmassen, símaryassen, tarmenissen, q.v. Pronouns take the simple ending -ssë, even if the pronoun is plural by its meaning (messë "on us", VT44:12). The part. pl. (-lissë or -lissen) and dual (-tsë) locative endings are known from the Plotz letter only.