Quenya 

huiva

murky

huiva adj. "murky" (LT1:253)

úcalima

adjective. dim, murky, dim, murky, *not bright

A word for “dim, murky” in notes from 1969 illustrating the use of the ú- prefix with -ima adjectives, in this case calima “luminous, bright” (PE22/156), hence literally “✱not bright”.

Variations

  • úkalima ✧ PE22/156

úcalima

adjective. dim, murky

Quenya [PE 22:156] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

huiva

adjective. murky, *(nearly) lightless

Derivations

  • PHUY “breathe out, *darkness; breathe out”

Sindarin 

fain

dim

adj. dim, dimmed (applied to dimmed or fading lights or to things seen in them); filmy, fine-woven, etc. (applied to things that only partially screened light, such as a canopy of young still half-transparent leaves, or textures that veiled but only half-concealed a form).

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:174] < *_phanyā_ < PHAN cover, screen, veil. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

auth

dim shape

(spectral or vague apparition), pl. oeth, coll. pl. othath. Note: a homophone means "war, battle".

gwathra

dim

(verb) gwathra- (i **wathra, in gwathrar**) (overshadow, veil, obscure)

gwathra

dim

(i ’wathra, in gwathrar) (overshadow, veil, obscure)

gwathren

dim

(adj.) gwathren (shadowy), lenited wathren; pl. gwethrin. (A lenited pl. is attested in the name Ered Wethrin, Shadowy Mountains.);

gwathren

dim

(shadowy), lenited ’wathren; pl. gwethrin. (A lenited pl. is attested in the name Ered Wethrin, Shadowy Mountains.);

gwâth

dim light

(i ’wâth; construct gwath) (shadow, shade), pl. gwaith (in gwaith) (UT:261);


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

mortha

adjective. dim

A word for “dim” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjective form of G. morth “darkness” (GL/58).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MORO “*black, dark” ✧ LT1A/Mornië
Gnomish [GL/58; LT1A/Mornië] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

huiva

adjective. murky

A word in the Qenya Lexicon appearing as ᴱQ. huiva “murky”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. hui “dark, murk, fog” (QL/41). It appeared in a variant form fuiva in the name ᴱQ. Ungwe Fuiva “the Spider of Night” (QL/80; PME/104).

Neo-Quenya: Given that the root √PHUY and the related word Q. huinë “gloom, deep shadow” continues to appear in Tolkien’s later writings, I think ᴺQ. huiva could still be used in Neo-Quenya. However, since huinë was used for a deep darkness such as a night without stars or moon (VT41/8), I think huiva should be limited to describing lightless or nearly lightless conditions. Obscured or very weak light (dim, gloomy) would be Q. úcalima or lómëa.

Cognates

  • G. huith “fog”
  • G. fuin “secret, dark; hoarded” ✧ LT1A/Fui

Element in

Variations

  • Fuiva ✧ PME/104
Early Quenya [LT1A/Fui; PME/104; QL/041] Group: Eldamo. Published by

fuiva

adjective. *murky