quinga ("q")noun "bow" (for shooting) (KWIG, LT1:256)
Quenya
caw-
bow
quinga
bow
cuv-
verb. bow
luhta-
verb. to bow, to bow, *curve
lúva
noun. bow (in forming tengwar), bight, bend, curve
A word Tolkien used to describe the “bow” of tengwar in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1118). Elsewhere he indicated it was a general word for a “bend, bow, bight, curve” (PE17/122, 168). Tolkien variously derived this word from the roots √LUB or √(N)DUB; see those entries for discussion. He also specified that lúva was not a bow for shooting (PE17/122), as opposed to [ᴹQ.] qinga given elsewhere as a shooting bow (Ety/KWIG).
cúnë
crescent, bow
cúnë _("k")_noun "crescent, bow" (LT1:271). Cf. cú.
luhta-
to bow
luhta- (2) vb. "to bow" (VT47:35); this intransitive verb can be distinguished from luhta- "enchant" above, since #1 is transitive and will always have a direct object, something #2 never has.
lúva
bow, bight; bend, bow, curve
lúva noun "bow, bight; bend, bow, curve" (Appendix E, PE17:122, 168). The reference is to a "bow" as part of written characters and other uses, but "not for shooting" (a bow used to shoot arrows is called quinga, possibly also cú if the latter term is used as in Sindarin).
fion
bowl, goblet
fion (2) "bowl, goblet" (LT1:253)
salpa
bowl
salpa (2) noun "bowl" (LT1:266), also #salpë isolated from tanyasalpë "Bowl of Fire") LT1:292
tolpo
bowl
tolpo noun "bowl" (PE16:142)
hir
entrails, bowels
hir (hird-), pl. hirdi, noun "entrails, bowels" (PE13:161)
cúnë
noun. crescent, arch, bow
cú
arch, crescent
cú ("k")noun "arch, crescent" (KU3); "crescent Moon" (LT1:271; the long vowel was denoted by a circumflex rather than an accent in the early "Qenya" lexicon). In Sindarin, the same word can be used for a "bow" as used to shoot arrows (but possibly this is only quinga in Quenya).
tolpo
noun. bowl
quingamo
noun. archer, bowman
A neologism for “archer, bowman” coined by Almáriel and Luinyelle, posted on 2025-08-06 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) as an agental form of [ᴹQ.] quinga “bow”.
hirdë
noun. entrails, bowels
A neologism for “entrails, bowels” based on the early primitive word ᴱ✶ʒirdǝ from Early Noldorin Word Lists of the 1920s (PE13/144, 161).
cauca
crooked
cauca _("k")_adj. "crooked" (LT1:257; cf. #caw-)
cautáron
bent
cautáron ("k") adj.?"bent" (MC:216; this is "Qenya")
cúna
bent, curved
cúna ("k") 1) adj. "bent, curved", from which is derived 2) cúna- vb. "bend", occurring with a- prefix (changed by Tolkien from a na-prefix) in Markirya. Here cúna- is intransitive; we do not know whether it can also be transitive "bend".
cúna-
verb. to bend
A verb for “to bend” based on the adjective Q. kúna “bent, curved” appearing in the Markirya poem of the 1960s (MC/223).
Conceptual Development: Versions of the poem from around 1930 had ᴱQ. lunga(na)- for “bend” (MC/214), more exactly meaning “sag, bend down, hang heavy” (PE16/75) and thus clearly based on ᴱQ. lungo or lunga “heavy” (PE13/163; PE16/75). Another poem from this same period had ᴱQ. kauta- “to bend” (MC/216; PE16/100).
hwarin
crooked
hwarin adj. "crooked" (SKWAR)
locin
adjective. bent, bent, *curled
numba
bent, humped
numba adj. "bent, humped" (PE17:168)
raica
crooked, bent, wrong
raica ("k") adj. "crooked, bent, wrong" (RÁYAK, VT39:7), pl. raicar in LR:47 (read perhaps *raicë in LotR-style Quenya)
raica
adjective. crooked, crooked, [ᴹQ.] bent, wrong
rempa
crooked, hooked
rempa adj. "crooked, hooked" (REP)
#caw- vb. "bow" ("k")(1st pers aorist cawin "I bow") (LT1:257; cf. cauca, cauco). In Tolkien's later Quenya, a verbal stem with w in this position does not seem to fit the general phonology well; intervocalic w would become v. We should perhaps read *cav*- whereever the second consonant of the root follows a vowel, but the nasal-infixed past tense could be canwë with the original quality of the consonant preserved. (Compare such a past tense form as anwë, q.v.) However, Tolkiens later verb luhta**- may be preferred for intransitive "bow".