daer

adjective. great, large

daer

adjective. dreadful, abominable, detestable

daer

noun. bridegroom

daer

adjective. dreadful

_ adj. _dreadful, horrible, ghastly.

daer

adjective. great

daeron

masculine name. Daeron

Famous minstrel and loremaster of Thingol (LotR/1123, S/95). In his essay on the The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, Tolkien stated that the first element of this name was daer “great” (VT42/11), although Christopher Tolkien suggested the initial element might be dae “shadow” in the Silmarillion Appendix (SA/dae), probably unaware of this essay when he was compiling The Silmarillion. The second element is probably the personal suffix -on often used in masculine names (WJ/400).

Conceptual Development: In the very earliest Lost Tales, this character first appeared as G. Kapalen, soon revised to Tifanto and finally Dairon (LT2/49), the last of these glossed “The Fluter” in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/29). The form remained Dairon in the Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s and Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LB/104, SM/113, LR/292). In The Etymologies, Ilk. Dairon was designated as Ilkorin, derived from dair “shadow of trees” (Ety/DAY), which is likely the source of Christopher Tolkien’s derivation in the Silmarillion Appendix (see above).

The form Daeron emerged towards the end of the 1930s (LR/301), but Tolkien continue to use Dairon in the drafts of the Lord of the Rings appendices and the initial Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (PM/76; WJ/13, 110), not committing to Daeron until fairly late in his writings.

dae

noun. shadow, shadow (cast by an object or form), [N.] shade

dae

noun. shadow

Daerachas

noun. great dread, fear

daer (“great”) + achas, gachas? [His.] (“dread, fear”)

dae-

prefix. dreadful, abominable, detestable

naer

adjective. dreadful

_ adj. _dreadful, horrible, unendurable. Q. naira.

certhas daeron

proper name. Daeron’s Runes

The runic alphabetic developed by Daeron, a combination of certhas “runes-rows, runic alphabet” with his name (LotR/1123). It was also called the Angerthas Daeron. In some 1958 notes Tolkien called them i Cirdh Daeron instead (NM/164).

daer

large

daer (great), lenited dhaer, no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means "bridegroom", but has a different lenited form.

daer

bridegroom

daer (i naer, o ndaer), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndaer). Note: a homophone means "great, large", but has different mutations.

daer

great

daer (large), lenited dhaer, no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means "bridegroom", but has a different lenited form.

daer

bridegroom

(i naer, o ndaer), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndaer). Note: a homophone means "great, large", but has different mutations.

daer

large

(great), lenited dhaer, no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means "bridegroom", but has a different lenited form.

daer

noun. bridegroom

daer

great

(large), lenited dhaer, no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means "bridegroom", but has a different lenited form.

Daeron

Daeron

The name derives from the Sindarin word daer ("large, great"). In the earlier Etymologies the Doriathrin name is given as Dairon shown as related to the Doriathrin word for shadow, dai. Consequently, Christopher Tolkien speculated in The Silmarillion, that the name perhaps included the Sindarin word dae "shadow".

#dae

great

#dae (lenited nae, no distinct pl. form). Isolated from daedhelos "great fear". Note: Homophones mean "shadow, shade" and also "very, exceedingly".

dae

shadow

(i dhae) (shade), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nae).

dae

great

(lenited nae, no distinct pl. form). Isolated from daedhelos "great fear". Note: Homophones mean "shadow, shade" and also "very, exceedingly".

daew

shadow

(i dhaew), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndaew) (VT45:8).

gaer

dreadful

1) gaer (awful, fearful; holy); lenited aear; no distinct pl. form. Note: homophones mean "reddish, copper-coloured, ruddy" and also "sea". 2) naer (lamentable, woeful, sad); no distinct pl. form.

gaer

dreadful

(awful, fearful; holy); lenited ’aear; no distinct pl. form. Note: homophones mean "reddish, copper-coloured, ruddy" and also "sea".

naer

dreadful

(lamentable, woeful, sad); no distinct pl. form.

beleg

adjective. large

adj. large, great. Q. melek-.

beleg

adjective. large

adj. large, great, big. . This gloss was rejected.

beleg

adjective. great, mighty

goeol

adjective. dreadful, terrifying

guruthos

noun. the shadow of death, death-horror

iaun

adjective. large

adj. large, extensive, wide, vast, huge. Q. yāna-. >> -ion

morchant

noun. shadow (of objects, cast by light), dark shape

beleg

great

beleg (mighty), lenited veleg, pl. belig

beleg

great

(mighty), lenited veleg, pl. belig

duin

large river

(i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin), coll. pl. duinath (Names:179, PM:54)

dúath

dark shadow

(i dhúath) (nightshade), pl. dúaith (i núaith). Compare the Ephel Dúath or ”Mountains of Shadow” forming th outer fence of Mordor, perhaps suggesting that Dúath is also the word used of Sauron as ”the Shadow”.

gwâth

shadow

(i ’wâth; construct gwath) (shade, dim light), pl. gwaith (in gwaith) (UT:261)

morchant

shadow

1) morchant (i vorchant), pl. morchaint (i morchaint). The literal meaning is ”dark shape”, referring to shadows with a recognizable form. 2) dae (i dhae) (shade), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nae). 3) daew (i dhaew), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndaew) (VT45:8). 4) gwâth (i **wâth; construct gwath) (shade, dim light), pl. gwaith (in gwaith) (UT:261) 5) muil (i vuil) (twilight, dreariness, vagueness), no distinct pl. except with article (i muil**),

morchant

shadow

(i vorchant), pl. morchaint (i morchaint). The literal meaning is ”dark shape”, referring to shadows with a recognizable form.

muil

shadow

(i vuil) (twilight, dreariness, vagueness), no distinct pl. except with article (i muil)

dae

noun. shadow (cast by an object or form), shade

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “shadow” derived from the root ᴹ√DAY of the same meaning (Ety/DAY). The original penciled version had {daer >>} dae, while the inked version had daew “shadow (cast by an object or form)” and Dae “shade” (EtyAC/DAY). It was most notably an element in the name N. Dor-Daedeloth “Land of the Shadow of Dread” (LR/120, 405). Christopher Tolkien had S. dae “shadow” in The Silmarillion appendix (SA/dae), but I suspect that was copied from The Etymologies. In later writings, Tolkien seems to have changed the initial element of Daedeloth to a variant of S. daer “great”, and its meaning from “Shadow of Dread” to “Great Dread” (WJ/183).

dae

noun. shadow

doer

noun. bridegroom

A noun appearing as N. doer “bridegroom” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√NDER of similar meaning (Ety/NDER). It is unusual in that its primitive form is ᴹ✶ndǣr, a rare example of the a-fortification of primitive e to ǣ (PE18/46). In Old Noldorin this became ON. ndair, and in Noldorin of the 1930s the diphthong [[n|[ai] became [oe] or [ae]]]. Indeed, in another entry in The Etymologies, Tolkien gave a variant form daer for “bridegroom”, though somewhat mysteriously he marked it as Old Noldorin (Ety/DER).

Neo-Sindarin: The a-fortification of primitive e remained a feature in Tolkien’s later writings, though in the 1950s Tolkien marked the result as ę̄ rather than ǣ (PE18/95). Thus primitive √NDER > ✱ndę̄r > OS. ndair > S. daer remains a plausible scenario in Sindarin, but ai > oe no longer occurred as it did in Noldorin. Therefore, I’d use the form ᴺS. daer for “bridegroom” in Neo-Sindarin, as suggested in HSD (HSD).

daew

noun. shadow

dar-

verb. to stop, halt

daur

adjective. great, large

doer

noun. bridegroom

gaer

adjective. dreadful

gaer

adjective. dreadful

beleg

adjective. great, mighty

beleg

adjective. great, large

enner

masculine name. Bridegroom

Noldorin equivalent of ᴹQ. Ender, another name for ᴹQ. Tulkas (Ety/TULUK, EtyAC/E).

gorgor

adjective. dreadful

nday

root. dreadful, abominable, detestable

wath

noun. shadow

nâlu

noun. shadow

A noun attested only in the compound agannâlô “death-shadow [is]” (SD/247, VT24/12). The first element of the compound, agan “death”, as identified elsewhere (SD/426), so the remaining element must mean “shadow”. The compound is the subject of the sentence agannâlô burôda nênud “death-shadow [is] heavy on us” and is therefore in the subjective case. According the grammatical rules of Lowdham’s Report, the only possibly normal form producing this subjective is nâlu: compare nîlu “moon” to its subjective form nîlô (SD/431).

Conceptual Development: In early writings, the compound was (non-subjective) agannūlo, so that the apparent draft form of this noun was nūlo. A similar form nūlu appears on SD/306, described only as “a word with the evil sense of ‘night’ or ‘dark’”. It could be a separate word or another variation of this word, with the development nūlo >> nūlu >> nālu. Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne suggested (AAD/21) that the earlier forms may be related to ᴹQ. nulla “dark, dusky, obscure”.

ugru

noun. shadow

A noun translated “shadow” (SD/247), also described as “a word with the evil sense of ‘night’ or ‘dark’” (SD/306). It appears in the preprositional phrase ugru-dalad “under shadow” (SD/247) and in the draft-dative form ugrus “‽horror‽shadow” (SD/311).

-úmë

large

-úmë (3) suffix "large" (of quantity)", as in liyúmë "host" (VT48:32)

Ender

bridegroom

Ender noun "bridegroom", surname of Tulkas (NDER, TULUK, VT45:11). The form Enderō(VT45:11) is defined as "[?virile] young bridegroom"; Tolkien's gloss was not entirely legible. But this would seem to be an archaic form, because of the long final -ō (later Quenya *Endero).

Naira

dreadful, horrible, unendurable

naira (3) adj. "dreadful, horrible, unendurable" (PE17:151)

alat-

large, great in size

alat- prefix "large, great in size". (ÁLAT, cf. VT45:5). In Alatairë.

alta

large, great in size

alta (1) adj. *"large, great in size" (root meaning)(ÁLAT). Alat- in Alatairë, q.v.

mordo

shadow, obscurity, stain

mordo (1) noun "shadow, obscurity, stain" (MOR)

nerdo

large, strong man

nerdo noun "large, strong man" (compare nér) (VT47:33)

pol

large, big (strong)

pol (2) adj. "large, big (strong)". Since this would be the sole example of a monosyllabic Quenya adjective, it may be that Tolkien is here citing the root POL rather than a complete word. Cf. polda.

velicë

great

velicë ("k") adj. "great" _(LT1:254; probably not valid in Tolkien's later Quenya; in the context of the Etymologies it would have to be derived from _BEL, but it is stated that this stem was "not found in Q". Perhaps Tolkien rejected velicë because it was too similar to the Russian word that clearly inspired it.)

úra

large

úra (2) adj. "large" (UR), probably obsoleted by #1 above

gabil Reconstructed

adjective. great