yaru noun "gloom, blight" (GL:37)
Quenya
lumbë
gloom, shadow
yaru
gloom, blight
Sindarin
daw
gloom
1) daw (i dhaw) (nighttime), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath; 2) dim (i dhim) (sadness), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nim). Note: a homophone means ”stair”. 3) fuin (darkness, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form. 4) maur (i vaur), pl. moer (i moer) (VT45:35)
daw
gloom
(i dhaw) (nighttime), pl. doe (i noe), coll. pl. ?dawath or ?doath
dim
gloom
(i dhim) (sadness), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nim). Note: a homophone means ”stair”.
fuin
gloom
(darkness, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form.
maur
gloom
(i vaur), pl. moer (i moer) (VT45:35)
Telerin
fuinë
noun. gloom
Cognates
- Q. huinë “gloom, (unrelieved) darkness, deep shadow, night shade; dark (as a substance)” ✧ VT41/08
Variations
- fuine ✧ VT41/08
Adûnaic
dâur
noun. gloom
A noun translated as “gloom” derived from the root √DAWAR (SD/423). It is an example of how primitive [[ad|[w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally]], thereby producing diphthongs.
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶Ad. dāw’r > dâur [dāwr] > [dāur] ✧ SD/423
Noldorin
maur
noun. gloom
maur
noun. gloom
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “gloom” appearing under the root ᴹ√MOR (Ety/MOR). A nearby primitive form ᴹ✶mǭri is the likely basis for this word as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/MOR), where the primitive ǭ became au as was the usual sound change in both Noldorin and later Sindarin (PE18/46, 96).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. móre “blackness, dark, night” ✧ Ety/MOR
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mǭri > maur [mǭri] > [mǭre] > [moure] > [maure] > [maur] ✧ EtyAC/MOR
ogol < ogl
gloom
n/adj gloom, gloomy
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!
Primitive adûnaic
dāw’r
noun. gloom
A Primitive Adûnaic word glossed “gloom” (SD/423), the only attested example of a single-vowel-form for a triconsonantal-root. Ordinarily such a form would not be possible, since final consonant clusters did not appear in Primitive Adûnaic (SD/418, 426). It is possible that such forms were valid in the case of medial semi-vowels [w] and [j], however, since [[ad|[w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally]], thereby preventing a cluster from forming.
Derivations
- √Ad. DAWAR “*gloom” ✧ SD/423
Derivatives
- Ad. dâur “gloom” ✧ SD/423
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √Ad. DAWAR > dāw’r [dāwr] ✧ SD/423
Qenya
lumbe
noun. gloom, shadow
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “gloom, shadow” derived from the root ᴹ√LUM (Ety/LUM). It was an element in the name ᴹQ. Hísilumbe for N./S. Hithlum, more typically given as Q. Hísilómë. However, both the root √LUM “shadow” and derived Quenya words like Q. lumbulë “heavy shadow” continued to appear in Tolkien’s later writings (PE17/168; RGEO/59), so I suspect lumbe may remain valid as well.
Conceptual Development: A possible precursor is ᴱQ. lōmin “shade, shadow” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√LOMO (QL/55).
Cognates
- N. lhum “shade” ✧ Ety/LUM
Derivations
- ᴹ√LUM “*shadow” ✧ Ety/LUM
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√LUM > lumbe [lumbe] ✧ Ety/LUM
ungwe
noun. gloom
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Ungoliante “Gloomweaver” ✧ Ety/UÑG
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶uñgwē > ungwe [uŋgwē] > [uŋgwe] ✧ Ety/UÑG Variations
- uñgwe ✧ PE22/051
Middle Primitive Elvish
ungwē
noun. gloom
Derivations
- ᴹ√UÑG “*gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. ungwe “gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG
Variations
- uñgwē ✧ Ety/UÑG
lumbë noun "gloom, shadow" (LUM)