Nermi noun "a field-spirit" (LT1:262)
Quenya
resta
noun. sown field, tilled ground, acre; *fair
Nermi
field-spirit
palar
flat field, 'wang', plain
palar noun "flat field, 'wang', plain" (the editors indicate that the last gloss may also be read as "place", but "plain" seems more likely in light of the other glosses, VT46:8)
peler
fenced field
peler noun "fenced field" (Old English tún) (PEL(ES) )
resta
noun. sown field
sown field, tilled ground, acre
resta
sown field, acre
resta noun "sown field, acre" (VT46:11 cf. RED-). The word parma-restalyanna, probably meaning *"(up)on your book-fair", seems to use #resta in the sense of "fair" (as held in a field?) Carl F. Hostetter however suggests that #resta "fair" may be related to ré "day" (VT49:39-40); if so this word is wholly distinct from resta "sown field".
fermië
noun. readiness; [physics] field
A neologism for “readiness” coined by Arael posted on 2025-08-25 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), based on ferya- “to make ready”. In physics fermië is also used for a “field” from the sense “standing readiness”, a reduction of tárafermië.
sangwefermië
noun. force field
santa
noun. garden, field, yard; apportioned/designated space
A neologism coined by Röandil on 2023-02-24 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) inspired by S. sant “garden, field, yard” (VT42/20). He also proposed the following idiom: santa-[personal possessive X]-sse “for [X]’s part; as far as [X] is concerned; from [X]’s point of view; as comes from/is done by [X]” (lit. “in [X]’s garden”). Personally I prefer to retain ᴱQ. tarwa for “garden”.
máhis
noun. maize, either sweet corn or field corn
A neologism for a “maize [corn]” appearing in the VQP (VQP) as a loan word from native american “mahis”. If you prefer a native Quenya word, see the neologism [ᴺQ.] porisalquë instead.
A noun for “sown field, tilled ground” in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) derived from primitive ✶reddā (PE19/91). Later in the same document it was glossed “acre” (PE19/101). The Etymologies of the 1930s had ᴹQ. resta “‘sown’, sown field, acre” also from primitive ᴹ✶reddā under the root ᴹ√RED “scatter, sow” (Ety/RED; EtyAC/RED). The form resta did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/383), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne noted its existence in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/11).
Tolkien seems to have used this word to mean “✱fair” as in parma-resta “✱book-fair” in the untranslated phrase nai elen siluva parma-restalyanna meldonya from around 1964 (VT49/38). Carl Hostetter proposed that this phrase meant “✱may a star shine upon your book-fair, my friend”, referring to the appearing of Martin Blackman at the World Book Fair in June of 1964 (VT49/39). Assuming this interpretation is correct, Hostetter suggested it might be due the use of fields as a common location for fairs.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s had ᴱQ. arwa “field” derived from the early root ᴱ√ƷARA “spread, extend sideways” (QL/32), cognate to G. garw “sown-field” (GL/38). The word ᴱQ. milnar or milnarwa “sown field” under the early root ᴱ√MILI seems to be an elaboration of ᴱQ. arwa, prefixed by a reduced form of ᴱQ. milin “grain of seed” (QL/61).