Quenya 

noldo

noun. Noldo

Noldo, Gnome

Quenya [PE 18:40 PE 19:76] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

holwë

noun. stink

holwë noun "stink" (or *"stench"), *holwëa adj. "stinking". PE13:162 gives holwë "stink", derived from 3olwē; PM13:145 however gives the Q word as olwë and the adj. "stinking" as olwëa, though primitive forms with initial ʒ- (the spirant gh) are presupposed also there. Tolkien later used a system where primitive words in ʒ- yield Quenya forms in h-, as demonstrated by relevant entries in the Etymologies, so we prefer holwë to olwë (which would also clash with the later personal name Olwë, unlikely to mean "stink"), and we similarly read *holwëa rather than olwëa as the adj. "stinking". In Etym, the root ÑOL seems to represent a later experiment with similar words having to do with smell, and once again we observe shifting conceptions as to whether the Quenya words should show initial h- or not; in this conception the initial consonant in Primitive Elvish was ñ- rather than ʒ-.

susta-

verb. to stink

Cognates

  • N. thosta- “to stink, to stink, *give off a smell”

Derivations

  • THUS “evil mist, fog, darkness; blow, cause an air movement, blow, cause an air movement; [ᴹ√] *smell, stench; [√] evil mist, fog, darkness”
    • THŪ “blow, cause an air movement, blow, cause an air movement, [ᴹ√] puff”
Quenya Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

Sindarin 

golodh

lore-master

pl1. gœlydh {ð} n. lore-master, sage. Historical form obsolete as specific 'tribal' or general, except as element in certain proper-names. It was used of any sage or lore-master.Q. ñoldo. >> pengolodh

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:139-40:153] < _ñgolodō_ Gnome. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

golodh

noun. lore-master, sage

Cognates

  • Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ MR/470; PE17/141

Derivations

  • ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/470; PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141
    • ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
    • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

  • S. pengolodh “teaching sage, doctor (of lore), teacher of lore, teaching sage, doctor (of lore), *professor” ✧ PE17/139; PE17/140

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ngolodõ > golodh[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ MR/470
ñgolodō > goloð[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ PE17/139
ñgolodō > gœlyð[ŋgolodi] > [golodi] > [goloði] > [goluði] > [gœlyði] > [gœlyð] > [gelyð]✧ PE17/139
ñgolodō > goloð[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ PE17/140
ñolodō > goloð[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ PE17/141

Variations

  • goloð ✧ PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141; PE17/142
Sindarin [MR/470; PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141; PE17/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

golodh

noun. one of the wise folk, Noldo

Cognates

  • Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ PE17/153; PM/360; SA/golodh; SI/Golodhrim; SI/Noldor; WJ/364; WJI/Golodh; MR/350; WJ/383; WJI/Noldor

Derivations

  • ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/350; PE17/153; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/379; WJ/383
    • ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
    • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ngolodō > golodh[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ MR/350
ñgolodō > goloð[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ PE17/153
Ñgolodō > goloð[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ PM/360
ñgolodō > Golodh[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]✧ WJ/364
ñgolodō > Goelydh[ŋgolodi] > [golodi] > [goloði] > [goluði] > [gœlyði] > [gœlyð] > [gelyð]✧ WJ/364

Variations

  • golodh ✧ MR/350; SA/golodh
  • Goloð ✧ PE17/126
  • goloð ✧ PE17/153; PM/360
Sindarin [MR/350; PE17/126; PE17/153; PM/360; S/238; SA/golodh; SA/rim; SI/Golodhrim; SI/Noldor; WJ/364; WJ/379; WJ/383; WJI/Golodh; WJI/Noldor] Group: Eldamo. Published by

noll

noun. Noldo

Changes

  • nŏlnoll ✧ PE17/141

Derivations

  • Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ PE17/141
    • ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/350; MR/470; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/380; WJ/383
    • ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
    • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383
    • Aq. ñolda “dark-haired” ✧ PE17/125
    • ÑGOL “dark-hued, dark-brown” ✧ PE17/125
    • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ SA/gûl

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
Q. ñoldo > nold > noll[noldo] > [nolðo] > [nolð] > [noll]✧ PE17/141

Variations

  • noll ✧ PE17/141
  • golt ✧ PE17/141
  • nolt ✧ PE17/141
  • nŏl ✧ PE17/141 (nŏl)
Sindarin [PE17/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by

golodh

noldo

(one of the Noldor) Golodh (i **Ngolodh = i Ñolodh, o N**golodh = o Ñgolodh), pl. Gelydh (in Gelydh = i Ñgelydh), coll. pl. Golodhrim. While Golodh is the actual Sindarin cognate of Quenya Noldo, the Noldor themselves apparently found this form unpleasing (WJ:379) and preferred the word Gódhel (i **Ódhel), pl. Gódhil (i Ngódhil = i Ñódhil), coll. pl. Gódhellim. Also Ódhel, pl. Ódhil, coll. pl. Ódhelllim** (WJ:364, 378-9). Adj.

golodh

noldo

(i Ngolodh = i Ñolodh, o N’golodh = o Ñgolodh), pl. *Gelydh* (*in Gelydh* = i Ñgelydh), coll. pl. Golodhrim. While Golodh is the actual Sindarin cognate of Quenya Noldo, the Noldor themselves apparently found this form unpleasing (WJ:379) and preferred the word Gódhel (i ’Ódhel), pl. *Gódhil*** (i Ngódhil = i Ñódhil), coll. pl. **Gódhellim. Also Ódhel, pl. Ódhil, coll. pl. Ódhelllim (WJ:364, 378-9). Adj.

golodhren

of the noldor, noldorin

*(WJ:318; Christopher Tolkien found the ”last letters illigible”, but the context might suggest Golodhrin as a pl. adj. ”Noldorin (ones)”. Lenited Ngolodhren = Ñolodhren*.

thosta

stink

(vb.) thosta- (VT46:19)

thosta

stink

(VT46:19)

Telerin 

goldo

noun. Noldo

Cognates

  • Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ PM/360; WJI/Goldo; WJ/383; WJI/Noldor

Derivations

  • ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383
    • ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
    • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

Variations

  • golodo ✧ PM/360
Telerin [PM/360; WJ/383; WJI/Goldo; WJI/Noldor] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Nandorin 

golda

adjective. noldo

The primitive form of Quenya Noldo (and hence also Nandorin golda) is given in WJ:364, 380 as ñgolodô. This example demonstrates that in Nandorin, like in Quenya, the second of two identical vowels in adjacent syllables is lost in words that had another syllable following the lost vowel. This word alone provides a clear example of the change of primitive final _-ô to -a_. The form golda also suggests that in Nandorin as in Sindarin, the original initial nasalized stops ñg, nd, mb were simplified to g, d, b, though examples for d and b are lacking in our very small corpus. The stems involved are found in LR:377: ÑGOL "wise" and the extended form ÑGOLOD "one of the wise folk". Ñgolodô is thus either formed from ÑGOL by ómataina (suffixed base-vowel), suffixed D and the nominal (often masculine or agental) ending , alternatively simply the longer ending -dô (of similar meaning) suffixed to the ómataina-form of the stem ÑGOL (sc. ñgolo-).

Nandorin [H. Fauskanger (WJ:364, 377, 380)] < ÑGOL/ÑGOLOD. Published by

edel

noun. Elda, High-elf

Stated in the Etymologies to be derived from a stem ÉLED (LR:356), defined as "Star-folk"; Tolkien points out that Doriathrin and Danian used a "transposed" form, clearly referring to the sounds L and D changing place. In Etym the development is apparently meant to be eledâ (this primitive form is explicitly given in Letters:281) > edela > edel. Later Tolkien reconstructed the primitive form of Quenya Elda as eldâ (WJ:360); whether this could regularly yield Nandorin edel is doubtful, unless final -ld metathesized to -dl and a vowel developed to break up this final cluster.

In Etym, Tolkien first gave the Nandorin form as elda, then changed it. *Eledâ could not yield elda, since final is regularly lost in Nandorin. Since in this word we do not see loss of the second of two identical vowels (compare golda), we must conclude that final -a was lost before this could happen.

Nandorin [H. Fauskanger (Letters:281, LR:356)] < ÉLED. Published by

Primitive elvish

ñgolodō

noun. lore-master, sage

Derivations

  • ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
  • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Derivatives

  • Q. Ingoldo “The Noldo” ✧ PM/360
  • Aq. ñgoldō “Noldo”
  • Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ MR/350; MR/470; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/380; WJ/383
    • S. Noll “Noldo” ✧ PE17/141
  • S. Angolodh “The Noldo” ✧ PM/360
  • S. Golodh “one of the wise folk, Noldo” ✧ MR/350; PE17/153; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/379; WJ/383
  • S. golodh “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/470; PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141
  • T. Goldo “Noldo” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

Variations

  • ngolodō ✧ MR/350
  • ngolodõ ✧ MR/470
  • ngolođ-ō ✧ PE17/139
  • ñolodō ✧ PE17/141
  • Ñgolodō ✧ PM/360
Primitive elvish [MR/350; MR/470; PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076; PE21/81; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/379; WJ/380; WJ/383] Group: Eldamo. Published by

thow

root. stink

Derivatives

  • THAW “cruel; stink” ✧ PE17/068
    • thaurā “detestable, abominable, horrible” ✧ Let/380
    • S. thaur “abominable, horrible” ✧ SA/thaur
    • Q. saura “cruel, evil, vile; stinking, foul; bad, unhealthy, ill, wretched, stinking, foul, [ᴹQ.] evil-smelling, putrid; [Q.] cruel, evil, vile; [Q.] bad, unhealthy, ill, wretched” ✧ PE17/068; PE17/184
    • ᴺQ. sávë “stench, stink, reek, foul odor”
  • thowō
    • S. Thû “Sauron; Manwë?” ✧ PE17/099
  • Q. Sauron “Abhorred” ✧ PE17/068
  • S. Thû “Sauron; Manwë?” ✧ PE17/068

Variations

  • ÞOWO ✧ PE17/068
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Noldorin 

thosta-

verb. to stink

Noldorin [VT/46:19] Group: SINDICT. Published by

thosta-

verb. to stink, to stink, *give off a smell

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴹ√THUS “*smell, stench” ✧ Ety/THUS

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√THUS > thosto[tʰusta-] > [θusta-] > [θosta-]✧ Ety/THUS
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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!

Ancient quenya

ñgoldō

noun. Noldo

Derivations

  • ñgolodō “lore-master, sage”
    • ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
    • ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

Ancient quenya [WJ/374] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

golod

noun. stink, stench

Cognates

  • Eq. yolme “stench, stink”

Variations

  • golc ✧ GL/41

gol-

verb. to stink

Cognates

  • Eq. yolo- “to stink” ✧ GL/41

Derivations

  • ᴱ√YOLO “smell, stink, reek (intr.)”

Element in

  • G. golog “stinking” ✧ GL/41
  • G. golod “stink, stench” ✧ GL/41

golc

noun. stink, stench

Early Noldorin

golw

noun. stink, stench

Changes

  • gulwgolw ✧ PE13/145

Cognates

  • Eq. yolme “stench, stink” ✧ PE13/145; PE13/162

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ʒolwḗ ✧ PE13/145; PE13/162
    • ᴱ√YOLO “smell, stink, reek (intr.)”

Element in

  • En. golwai “stinking” ✧ PE13/162

Variations

  • gulw ✧ PE13/145 (gulw)
  • golu ✧ PE13/162
Early Noldorin [PE13/145; PE13/162] Group: Eldamo. Published by

golwad-

verb. to stink

Derivations

  • ᴱ√YOLO “smell, stink, reek (intr.)”
Early Noldorin [PE13/162] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

yolo-

verb. to stink

Changes

  • yolo-yolo- “stench” ✧ QL/106

Cognates

  • G. gol- “to stink” ✧ GL/41

Derivations

  • ᴱ√YOLO “smell, stink, reek (intr.)” ✧ QL/106

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√Y̯OLO > yolo-[jolo-]✧ QL/106
Early Quenya [GL/41; QL/106] Group: Eldamo. Published by

olwe

noun. stink