Sindarin 

lanc

adjective. naked

A word for “naked” in the name Amon Lanc “Naked Hill” (UT/280).

lanc

noun. sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end

lanc

noun. naked

Sindarin [UT/418] Group: SINDICT. Published by

lanc

noun. throat

Sindarin [Ety/367, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

lanc

noun. sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end (as a cliff-edge, or the clean edge of things made by hand or built)

Sindarin [VT/42:8] Group: SINDICT. Published by

lanc

sudden end

lanc (sharp edge, sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath.

lanc

sudden end

lanc (sharp edge, sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”.

lanc

throat

lanc (neck), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.

lanc

brink

1) lanc (sharp edge, sudden end), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”. 2) rhîf (brim), no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. rhívath (VT46:11)

lanc

sharp edge

lanc (sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”.

lanc

sharp edge

lanc (sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”.

lanc

naked

(pl. lainc). Note: homophones means ”neck, throat” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.

lanc

throat

(neck), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.

lanc

neck

(throat), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.

lanc

sudden end

(sharp edge, sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath.

lanc

sharp edge

(sudden end, brink), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”.

lanc

brink

(sharp edge, sudden end), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”neck, throat”.

hell

naked

1) hell (lenited chell; pl. hill), 2) lanc (pl. lainc). Note: homophones means ”neck, throat” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.

iaeth

neck

1) iaeth; no distinct pl. form. 2) lanc (throat), pl. lainc, coll. pl. langath. Note: homophones mean ”naked” and also ”sharp edge, sudden end, brink”.

ach

noun. neck

n. neck, refeering properly to the vertebrae (the bony part of the neck not including throat). 'geographical' form achad. Q. akas (later akse) pl. aksi. Fachad

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ach

noun. neck, neck, *(upper) spine

A word for “neck” appearing in notes written around 1967, derived from primitive aks based on the root √AKAS “neck, ridge” (PE17/92), where the ks became ch (IPA [x]). Tolkien specified that it was “referring properly only to the vertebrae (the bony part of the neck not including throat)”, so a more accurate translation might be “✱(upper) spine”. A more ordinary word for “neck” as a passage from mouth to the stomach and lungs would be lang.

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achad

noun. neck (properly referring only to the bony vertebral part not including the throat)

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achad

neck

n. neck, refeering properly to the vertebrae (the bony part of the neck not including throat). This is a 'geographical' form, S. ach. Q. akas (later akse) pl. aksi. Fach, AchadTarlang

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:92] < _aks_ < AKAS. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

medui

adjective. end

adj. end, final, last. Ai na vedui Dúnadan. Mae g'ovannen. 'Ah! At last, Dúnadan ! Well met !'. m > v after preposition.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:16] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

methed

noun. end

Sindarin [UT/452] Group: SINDICT. Published by

methed

noun. end

This word is attested in later writings as an element in the names Methed-en-Glad “End of the Wood” and possibly Methedras “Last Peak” (of the Misty Mountains). The latter name first appeared in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s as N. Methen Amon and Methendol (TI/404), making it likely that methed is a revision from the earlier adjective N. methen (Ety/MET).

This new form likely changed from an adjective to a noun, since -ed/-ad is usually a gerundal suffix in Sindarin (forming nouns from verbs). This word is clearly a noun in the name Methed-en-Glad, and could also be a noun in Methedras (= “Peak of the End?”).

paran

adjective. naked

_ adj. _naked, bald, bare. Q. parne. >> baran, Dol Baran

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:86:171] < PAR peel (hence bark, book). Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

parch

adjective. naked

_ adj. _naked, of persons. Q. parka.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:86] < PAR peel. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

rîw

noun. edge, hem, border

Sindarin [Ety/383, X/RH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

hell

naked

(lenited chell; pl. hill)

iaeth

neck

; no distinct pl. form.

manadh

final end

(i vanadh) (fate, fortune [usually = final bliss]), pl. menaidh (i menaidh).

meth

end

(noun) 1) meth (i veth), pl. mith (i mith). Note: the word is also used as an adjective ”last”. 2) (rear, hindmost part) tele (i dele, o thele), pl. teli (i theli). In ”Noldorin”, the pl. was telei (LR:392 s.v. TELES). 3) ( maybe primarily ”last point in line; last of a series of items”) #methed (i vethed), pl. methid (i methid). Isolated from the name Methedras, the last in a line of mountain peaks.

meth

end

(i veth), pl. mith (i mith). Note: the word is also used as an adjective ”last”.

methed

end

(i vethed), pl. methid (i methid). Isolated from the name Methedras, the last in a line of mountain peaks.

methen

end

(adj.) methen (lenited vethen; pl. methin) (VT45:34)

methen

end

(lenited vethen; pl. methin) (VT45:34)

nass

sharp end

(point, angle, corner), construct nas, pl. nais.

rhîf

brink

(brim), no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. rhívath (VT46:11)

rîw

edge

*rîw (construct riw) (hem, border), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rîw). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” rhîf.

rîw

edge

(construct riw) (hem, border), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rîw). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” rhîf.

tele

end

(i dele, o thele), pl. teli (i theli). In ”Noldorin”, the pl. was telei (LR:392 s.v. TELES).

Noldorin 

lhanc

noun. throat

Noldorin [Ety/LANK; EtyAC/LAK¹] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lhanc

noun. throat

Noldorin [Ety/367, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

hell

adjective. naked

Noldorin [Ety/386] Group: SINDICT. Published by

hell

adjective. naked, naked, *stripped

An adjective in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “naked” and derived from primitive ᴹ✶skelnā under the root ᴹ√SKEL (Ety/SKEL). This word was originally hall “naked” under an earlier but deleted form of the root ᴹ√SKAL (EtyAC/SKEL). The root ᴹ√SKEL was also the basis for the verb N. heltha- “to strip”, and its Quenya derivative ᴹQ. helda was at one point was glossed “stripped bare” (Ety/SKAL¹), so the word hell seems to mean “naked” in the sense “✱stripped (of clothing or other covering)”.

Conceptual Development: There are a couple of earlier “naked” words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s that seems to be similarly derived. G. dautha “naked, stripped” was related to daf- “to strip, flay” (GL/29) and G. hulc “naked” (GL/49) is like the cognate of ᴱQ. hulqa “naked” under the early root ᴱ√HULU “strip” (QL/41). In later writings, some “naked” words were derived from √PAR “peel” instead (PE17/86, 171).

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iaeth

noun. neck

Noldorin [Ety/400] Group: SINDICT. Published by

iaeth

noun. neck

A word for “neck” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶yakta- under the root ᴹ√YAK (Ety/KEM), where the primitive k spirantalized and vocalized to i and the resulting diphthong ai became ae, sound changes that remain plausible in Sindarin as well.

Conceptual Development: There was a similar word G. gath “neck” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s from primitive ᴱ✶yatt- (GL/36), with the Gnomish sound change of initial y to g.

Neo-Sindarin: For purpose of Neo-Sindarin, I would use iaeth for “neck” as a joining between the head and torso, as opposed to lang as a passage from the mouth to stomach and lungs [including the “✱throat”] and S. ach referring the vertebrae in the neck [“✱(upper) spine”].

meth

noun. end

Noldorin [Ety/373] Group: SINDICT. Published by

meth

noun. end

methen

adjective. end, final

Noldorin [Ety/373, VT/45:34] Group: SINDICT. Published by

rhîf

noun. edge, hem, border

Noldorin [Ety/383, X/RH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

tele

noun. end, rear, hindmost part

Noldorin [Ety/392] Group: SINDICT. Published by

Quenya 

lanca

sharp edge (not of tools); sudden end

lanca ("k")noun "sharp edge (not of tools); sudden end" _("as e.g. a cliff-edge, or the clean edge of things made by hand or built, also used in transferred senses, as in kuivie-lankasse, literally 'on the brink of life', of a perilous situation in which one is likely to fall into death" VT42:8)_

lanco

throat, swallow

lanco ("k")noun "throat, swallow" _(LAK1 , LANK). _Since this was changed by Tolkien from lango with stem *langu- and pl. langwi, it may be that lanco* should similarly have the stem lancu**- and pl. *lanqui.

lanca

noun. sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end

lancanta-

verb. to transform, turn into (trans.)

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lancöa

noun. tent, (lit.) cloth shelter

A neologism for “tent” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), a combination of [ᴹQ.] lanne “cloth” and Q. cöa “house”.

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lango

throat

[lango (3) noun "throat"] (Tolkien also listed the plural form langwi_; in the _Etymologies as printed in LR, Christopher Tolkien improperly prefixed an asterisk as if it were an primitive or wrong form; see VT45:26. This indicates that lango has the stem-form *langu-. Compare ango "snake", stem #angu-, pl. angwi. But whatever the case, lango was changed to lanco.) (LANG, see LANK)

langon

throat

langon noun "throat" (MC:216; this is "Qenya", possibly an inflected form of lango #2 above but Tolkien changed it to lanco)

acas

neck

acas ("k") noun "neck" (the bony part of the neck, not including throat), pl. axi ("ks") (and so perhaps general stem-form ax-). Also sg. axë (said to be a "later" form apparently replacing acas). The word is also used geographically of rock ridges. (PE17:92)

acas

noun. neck

axo

noun. neck

axë

neck

axë ("ks")noun "neck" (the bony part of the neck, not including throat), pl. axi given. Also sg. acas (the alternative form axë is said to be "later" and seems to be an analogical back-formation from the pl. axi). The word is also used geographically of rock ridges. (PE17:92)

cimba

noun. edge, brink

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halla

naked

[halla (2) adj. "naked" (VT46:14), changed by Tolkien to helda]

helda

naked, stripped bare

helda (1) adj. "naked, stripped bare" (SKEL, SKAL1)

lango

noun. neck, neck, [ᴹQ.] throat

A word for “neck” appearing in notes written around 1967, derived from primitive ✶langō < √LAƷA “cross, pass over, go beyond” (PE17/92). Its primitive form meant “a passage (physical), originally applied to any route or connecting link between two places or large objects, especially such as enabled one to cross or surmount an obstacle: such as a mountain-pass, a ridge of higher land across fen-land, an isthmus etc.” (PE17/91-92). This word was then “later applied to narrower parts of a structure serving to join larger parts, especially the ‘neck’ of men and animals”. The word lango “neck” also appeared in notes from 1965, but there it was derived from √LAG, as opposed to the then-distinct root for “beyond”: √LAŊ (PE17/65).

Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to 1920s, where ᴱQ. lango “neck” appeared in Early Qenya Word-lists (PE16/136). It was glossed “neck” in drafts of the ᴱQ. Earendel poem (PE16/100), and as “throat” in the poem itself (MC/216). ᴹQ. lango “throat” appeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/8), but in The Etymologies of the 1930s it was {lango >>} ᴹQ. lanko “throat” from the root ᴹ√LAK “swallow” (Ety/LANK). In later writings, Q. lango “neck” was restored (see above).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I think lango can refer to both “neck” and “throat”, since its later derivation was from a word meaning “passage”, and hence could refer the passage from the mouth to the stomach and lungs. For the actual interior mechanism of the throat, however, I’d recommend the neologism ᴺQ. hlunco “pharynx, gullet” < ᴹ√SLUK “swallow”.

Quenya [PE17/065; PE17/092] Group: Eldamo. Published by

marta-

to chance

marta- (1) vb. "to chance" or *"happen" (QL:63), cf. mart- "it happens" (impersonal) (LT2:348 read marta-?). Another version assigns transitive meanings to the same verb: "to define, decree, destine" (with the last sense = martya-, q.v.), with a variant umbarta- "in more lofty senses" (PE17:104)

metta

end

metta noun "end"; Ambar-metta "world-end, the end of the world" (EO); mettarë *"end-day" = New Years' Eve in the Númenórean calendar and the Steward's Reckoning, not belonging to any month (Appendix D). The word Mettanyë, heading the final part of the poem The Trees of Kortirion, would seem to be related (LT1:43)

parca

naked

parca (2) ("k")adj. "naked", of persons (PE17:86)

réna

edge, border, margin

réna noun "edge, border, margin" (REG)

ríma

edge, hem, border

ríma noun "edge, hem, border" (RĪ)

tyel

end

tyel (1) noun "end", stem tyeld- as in the pl. form tyeldi (FS, KYEL; the pl. form tyeldi_ was misread as "tyelde" in the Etymologies as printed in LR; cf. VT45:25 for this correction)_. Cf. tyelma.

tyel-

end, cease

tyel- (2) vb. "end, cease" (KYEL)

yat

neck

yat (yaht-) noun "neck" (YAK)

tel

noun. end

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Telerin 

lanca

noun. sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end


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!

Gnomish

lanc

noun. chance; pick, choice, selection

cwerc

noun. throat

falin

adjective. naked

falon

adjective. naked

gath

noun. neck

hulc

adjective. naked

telu

noun. end

Gnomish [GL/70; LT1A/Teleri] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

cant

noun. edge

Early Noldorin [PE13/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gara

noun. throat

The word ᴱN. gara “throat” (archaic †garg) appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists derived from primitive ᴱ✶go, where the long syllable became ar (PE13/144). Compare this to ᴱN. griw “alimentary canal” from primitive ᴱ✶grgu-, where with short syllabic the result was gri-.

Conceptual Development: G. cwerc “throat” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s might be a conceptual precursor (GL/28), perhaps from primitive qṛk-, though elsewhere in the Gnomish Lexicon, qṛ- &gt; cur-, as in ᴱ√qṛđ > G. curdhu (GL/28).

Early Noldorin [PE13/144] Group: Eldamo. Published by

umaith

adjective. naked

Early Noldorin [PE13/155] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

gṝgo

noun. throat

Early Primitive Elvish [PE13/144] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kantya

noun. edge

Early Primitive Elvish [PE13/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kili

root. edge

Early Primitive Elvish [QL/046] Group: Eldamo. Published by

m(b)ṛtṛ

root. chance

Early Primitive Elvish [GL/24; LT2A/Turambar; QL/034; QL/063] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

hulin

adjective. naked

Early Quenya [QL/041] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hulqa

adjective. naked

Early Quenya [QL/041] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kante

noun. edge

Early Quenya [PE13/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qelqa

noun. throat

The word ᴱQ. qerka appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as the cognate of G. cwerc “throat” (GL/28). ᴱQ. qerka “throat” appeared again in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/136), but in a list of body parts from this same period it was ᴱQ. qelqa “throat” (PE14/117). There are no signs of these words in Tolkien’s later writings.

Early Quenya [PE14/117] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qerka

noun. throat

Early Quenya [GL/28; PE16/136] Group: Eldamo. Published by

talma

noun. end

Early Quenya [PE16/144] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

halla

adjective. naked

lango

noun. throat

Qenya [Ety/LANK; EtyAC/LANK; PE21/08] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lanko

noun. throat

Qenya [Ety/LAK¹; Ety/LANK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tyel

noun. end

Qenya [Ety/KYEL; EtyAC/KYEL; LR/072] Group: Eldamo. Published by

yat

noun. neck, neck; [ᴱQ.] isthmus

Old Noldorin 

skhella

adjective. naked

Old Noldorin [Ety/SKEL; EtyAC/SKEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

met

root. end

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/MET] Group: Eldamo. Published by

metta

noun. end

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/MET] Group: Eldamo. Published by

skelnā

adjective. naked

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/SKEL; EtyAC/SKEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

yakta-

noun. neck

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/YAK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Westron

neg

noun. end

Westron [PM/048; PM/083] Group: Eldamo. Published by