#ham- (2) vb. "judge", attested in the aorist form hamil "you judge". (VT42:33; notice the pronominal ending -l "you". See nemë. The verb #ham- with the meaning "judge" may seem to be an ephemeral form in Tolkien's conception.)
Quenya
ham-
sit
ham-
judge
ham-
verb. to judge
Changes
hame→ năvin “judge” ✧ PE22/154Element in
- Q. lá carita i hamil mára alasaila ná “not to do (in this case) what you judge good (would be) unwise” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/33
Variations
- hame ✧ PE22/154 (
hame)
ham-
verb. sit down; be situated; reside
har-
sit, stay
har- vb. "sit, stay", pl. present hárar in CO (i hárar "those who sit, those who are sitting"). Imperative hara in the phrase (hara) máriessë "(stay) in happiness" (PE17:162). According to VT45:20, har- "sit" is derived from a stem KHAD which Tolkien abandoned in the Etymologies, but since CO is later than Etym, he may seem to have restored KHAD. If so, the past tense of har- would be *handë.
nam-
judge
#nam- vb. "judge", attested in the 1st person aorist: namin "I judge" (VT41:13). Compare Námo.
nam-
verb. to judge
Derivations
- √NAM “judge”
Element in
- Q. námië “single judgment or desire”
- ᴺQ. námima “culpable, (lit.) judgeable”
- ᴺQ. nammar “court, courthouse, (lit.) judgment-house”
- ᴺQ. námocombë “tribunal”
- Q. orë nin caritas nó namin alasaila “I would like / feel moved to do so but judge it unwise” ✧ VT41/13
- Q. Rithil-Anamo “Doom-ring”
nav-
judge
#nav- vb. "judge" (cited in the form navë, apparently the 3rd person aorist). Also given with pronominal suffixes: navin *"I judge" (Tolkien's free translation: "I think"), navilwë "we judge" (VT42:33, 4, VT48:11)
nav-
verb. to judge
Derivations
- √NDAB “to judge” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/34
Element in
- Q. alasaila ná lá carë tai mo nave mára “it is unwise not to do what one judges good” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/34
- Q. lá caritas, navin, alasaila ná “not doing this would be (I think) unwise” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/34
- Q. la navin caritalyas mára “I do not advise you to do so, (lit.) I don’t judge your doing (it) good” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/33
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √NDAB > năvin [ndabin] > [ndaβin] > [naβin] > [navin] ✧ PE22/154 √ndab > nave [ndabi] > [ndabe] > [ndaβe] > [naβe] > [nave] ✧ VT42/34
nem-
judge
[#nem- vb. "judge", attested as endingless aorist nemë, changed by Tolkien to hamë and finally to navë "in all but one case" (Bill Welden). Forms like námo "judge" and namna "statute" point rather to #nam- (q.v.) as a verb "to judge" (VT42:34); the verb namin "I judge" is even listed in Etym.]
nem-
verb. to judge
Námo
judge
Námo (1) noun "Judge", name of a Vala, normally called Mandos, properly the place where he dwells (WJ:402)
námo
noun. judge
Derivations
- √NAM “judge”
Element in
Variations
- Námo ✧ WJ/402
ham- (1) vb. "sit" (KHAM)