dagor
noun. battle
dagor
noun. battle
dagor-nuin-giliath
proper name. Battle-under-Stars
dagor aglareb
proper name. Glorious Battle
Third great battle of the Wars of Beleriand, translated “Glorious Battle” (S/115), a combination of dagor “battle” and aglareb “glorious” (SA/aglar).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this battle was already called N. Dagor Aglareb when it was first named (SM/329).
dagor bragollach
proper name. Battle of Sudden Flame
Fourth great battle of the Wars of Beleriand, translated “Battle of Sudden Flame” (S/151), a combination of dagor “battle” and bragollach “sudden flame” (possibly = “wild fire”).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this battle was first named N. Dagor Húr-Breged “Battle of Sudden Flame” (SM/317) or “Fire” (LR/132). This was revised to N. Dagor Vregedúr “Battle of Sudden Fire” (LR/280), a form that also appeared in The Etymologies where the second element was indicated to be the lenited form of N. bregedur “wild fire” (Ety/BERÉK). The name took on its final form in Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (WJ/52, 124).
dagor dagorath
proper name. *Battle of All Battles
Name of a hypothetical battle at the end of the World (UT/395), a combination of dagor “battle” with its own class plural “(all) battles”, hence: “✱Battle of All Battles”).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, the battle at the end of the World was called N. Dagor Delothrin “Terrible Battle” (LR/405).
dagor arnediad
proper name. Battle of Unnumbered Tears
A variant name of Nirnaeth Arnoediad (WJ/22, 28), a combination of dagor “battle” and arnediad “unnumbered”.
Conceptual Development: An earlier variant name was N. Dagor Nirnaith (LR/405).
Dagor-nuin-Giliath
noun. battle under the stars
dagor (“battle”) + nu (prep. “under”) + in (pl. article) + gîl (“star”) + ath (collective plural suffix)
Dagor Aglareb
noun. glorious battle
dagor (“battle”), aglar (“glory”) + eb (adjective suffix)
Dagor Bragollach
noun. battle of sudden flame
dagor (“battle”), bragol (“sudden”) + lach (“flame”)
dagor
battle
(noun) 1) dagor (i nagor, o ndagor), analogical pl. degyr (i ndegyr), coll. pl. dagorath. Archaic dagr, so we might have expected dagrath as the coll. pl.; dagorath would be an analogical formation. 2) (battle of two or a few, not a general host) maeth (i vaeth) (fight), no distinct pl. except with article (i maeth). 3) auth (war), pl. oeth, coll. pl. othath. Note: a homophone means "dim shape, apparition".
dagor
battle
(i nagor, o ndagor), analogical pl. degyr (i ndegyr), coll. pl. dagorath. Archaic dagr, so we might have expected dagrath as the coll. pl.; dagorath would be an analogical formation.
dagra
battle
(verb, "do battle, make war") dagra- (i nagra, i ndagrar), also dagrada- (i nagrada, i ndagradar)
dagra
battle
(i nagra, i ndagrar), also dagrada- (i nagrada, i ndagradar)
dag-
verb. to slay, to slay, [ᴱN.] kill
A verb meaning “to slay” derived from the root √NDAK, best known from its passive participle dangen as in Haudh-en-Ndengin “Hill of Slain” (S/197). Tolkien wrote a set of possible past forms aðag, aðanc, aðarch in notes from 1962 (PE17/131), and the verb appeared in its Noldorin-style infinitive form degi “to slay” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√NDAK “slay” (Ety/NDAK), along with another couple of (Noldorin) past forms: danc, degant (EtyAC/NDAK). The verb form ᴱN. (n)dag- “to slay” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141), but its present form dág was glossed “kills” and in the contemporaneous Early Noldorin Grammar the form dagion was likewise glossed “I kill” (PE13/130). Thus “slay” and “kill” are both viable translations.
Possible Etymology: In notes from around 1962, Tolkien gave ✶dankĭnā as the primitive form of its passive participle dangen, indicating a root √DAK rather than √NDAK, which is also consistent with its nasal mutated plural form on that page: {i dengin >>} i nengin (PE17/133). The 1964 past forms aðag and aðanc also seem to indicate derivation from √DAK (PE17/131). In notes from around 1967, however, Tolkien had the mixed mutated form n(d)engin in the phrase i·m(b)air en N(d)engin, indicating √NDAK, and he consistently gave nac- for the equivalent Quenya forms, so the early 1960s flirtation with √DAK seems to have been a transient idea.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would assume the root is √NDAK, and hence I’d give it the past form ✱annanc “slayed” rather than aðanc.
auth
battle
(war), pl. oeth, coll. pl. othath. Note: a homophone means "dim shape, apparition".
hûl
cry of encouragement in battle
(i chûl, o chûl, construct hul), pl. huil (i chuil)
maeth
battle
(i vaeth) (fight), no distinct pl. except with article (i maeth).
Second great battle of the Wars of Beleriand, translated “Battle-under-Stars” (S/106), a combination of dagor “battle”, nu “under”, the plural in of the definite article i and finally the class plural giliath of gil “star”.
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this battle was first named N. Dagor-os-Giliath (SM/268, LR/117), revised to N. Dagor nuin Giliath later in these drafts (LR/119, 145). This later form was also used in the Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (WJ/17).
It occasionally appeared as Dagor-nui-Ngiliath in both the 1930s and 1950s (LR/249, WJ/113), with the plural article elided and the class-plural undergoing nasal mutation to ngiliath. This second formation is probably more typical Sindarin.