bellas (i vellas), pl. bellais (i mellais) if there is a pl.
Noldorin
bellas
noun. bodily strength
bellas
noun. bodily strength
Sindarin
bellas
bodily strength
bellas
bodily strength
(i vellas), pl. bellais (i mellais) if there is a pl.
bellas
bodily strength
(i vellas), pl. bellais (i mellais) if there is a pl.
rhond
noun. body
rhond
noun. body
A Sindarin word for “body”, cognate of Q. hrondo, appearing as rhonn in Quenya Notes from 1957 (QN: PE17/183) and as rhond or rhonn in notes concerning spirit, also probably from 1957 (NM/237). In the former document, it was derived from the root √SRON, a variant of √RON “solid, tangible, firm” (PE17/183).
Neo-Sindarin: Its Quenya cognate hrondo was replaced by Q. hröa < ✶srawā in notes from 1958-59 (MR/209, 350). However, the Sindarin equivalent of hroa was rhaw, a word that also meant “flesh” along with many other (Neo) Sindarin meanings such as “wild” and “lion”. As such, I would retain rhond as “body” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin; the continued viability of the root √RON is indicated by other words like S. Grond.
rhonn
noun. body
fân
manifested body of a vala
(veil, cloud), construct fan, pl. fain.
rhaw
body
rhaw (?i thraw or ?i raw the lenition product of rh is uncertain) (flesh), pl. rhoe (?idh roe). Note: a homophone means ”wild, untamed”. (MR:350).
rhaw
body
(?i thraw or ?i raw – *the lenition product of rh is uncertain) (flesh), pl. rhoe (?idh roe). Note: a homophone means ”wild, untamed”. (MR:350)*.
tû
strength
(physical strength) tû (i dû, o thû) (muscle, sinew; vigour), pl. tui (i thui), coll. pl. túath.
tû
strength
(i dû, o thû) (muscle, sinew; vigour), pl. t**ui (i thui), coll. pl. túath**.
Primitive elvish
srawā
noun. body
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!
Old Noldorin
belle
noun. strength
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.
Middle Primitive Elvish
belē
noun. strength
tū
noun. strength
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
kolume
noun. body
A word for “body” in notes on parts of the body from the 1920s (PE14/117).
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).
A word for “bodily strength” in The Etymologies of the 1930s based on Old Noldorin belle “strength” under the root ᴹ√BEL “strong” (Ety/BEL). Ordinarily this Old Noldorin word would have become ✱bell (e.g. N. hell “naked” from ON. skhella), but it seems this word was not sufficiently distinct, so at some point the abstract noun suffix N. -as was added.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. polm or polwin “strength (physical)”, clearly based on the early root ᴱ√POLO “have strength” (GL/64).