Quenya 

corma

ring

#corma noun "ring", isolated from #cormacolindo "Ring-bearer", pl. cormacolindor (LotR3:VI ch. 4, translated in Letters:308); Cormarë "Ringday", a festival held on Yavannië 30 in honour of Frodo Baggins (Appendix D)

corma

noun. ring

A word for “ring” appearing as an element in Q. Cormacolindor “Ring-bearers” (LotR/953), clearly derived from the root √KOR “round”. It also appeared in a translation of the title of The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien included in a 1973 letter to Phillip Brown: i Túrin i Cormaron.

Conceptual Development: Another translation of “Lord of the Rings” is known from an exhibit of Tolkien manuscripts: Heru imillion, where presumably the element millë means “ring” (DTS/54). In a deleted entry from The Etymologies of the 1930s, Tolkien had ᴹQ. kolma “ring ([?on] finger)” [or possibly “or finger”] derived from a deleted root ᴹ√KOL (EtyAC/KOL).

Cognates

  • S. cor “ring, circle”
  • ᴺS. corf “ring (for fingers)”

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
KOR“round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll”
-ma“instrumental”

Variations

  • Corma ✧ LotR/0953 (Corma); LotR/1112 (Corma)
Quenya [LotR/0953; LotR/1112; Minor-Doc/1973-05-30] Group: Eldamo. Published by

colma

ring (on finger)

[colma ("k")noun "ring (on finger)" (VT45:23). See corma.]

risil

ring

*risil (þ) noun "ring" (on the ground) in Rithil-Anamo, q.v.

Sindarin 

echor

ring

(outer ring or circle) echor (pl. echyr). It is unclear what the Sindarin word for an ornamental ring is; the cognate of Quenya corma would be *corf (i gorf, o chorf; pl. cyrf, i chyrf, coll. pl. corvath).

echor

ring

(pl. echyr). It is unclear what the Sindarin word for an ornamental ring is; the cognate of Quenya corma would be ✱corf (i gorf, o chorf; pl. cyrf, i chyrf, coll. pl. corvath).

Black Speech

nazg

noun. ring

Derivations

  • nazgā “bond, fetter” ✧ PE19/101
    • NASAG “*bond, fetter” ✧ PE19/101

Element in

Black Speech [Let/178; Let/382; Let/384; LotR/0254; PE17/011; PE17/031; PE17/079; PE17/125; PE19/101; RC/762] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nazg

noun. (finger-)ring

>> Nazgûl 'Ringwraiths'

Black Speech [PE17/11] Published by

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!

Middle Primitive Elvish

nyol

root. ring

Middle Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

lemfarilt

noun. ring

Early Noldorin

crithos

noun. ring, ring; [G.] circle

Early Noldorin [PE13/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by