númen noun "west, the way of the sunset" (SA:andúnë, cf. NDŪ, MEN; capitalized Númen under SA:men and in CO), "going down, occudent" (Letters:361), also name of tengwa #17 _(Appendix E). _According to VT45:38, the word is actually cited as "nú-men" in Tolkien's Etymologies manuscript. Allative númenna "Westward" (LR:47, SD:310, VT49:20, capitalized Númenna, VT49:22; numenna with a short u, VT49:23); adj. númenquerna "turned westward" (VT49:18, 20). See also númenyaron, númessier. - In the pre-classical Tengwar system presupposed in the Etymologies, "nú-men" was intended as the name of tengwa #21, to which letter Tolkien at this stage assigned the value n (VT45:38). However, this tengwa was later given the Quenya value r instead and was renamed órë.
Quenya
númë
going down, occident
númë
noun. west
númen
west, the way of the sunset
númen
noun. west, direction or region of the sunset, occident, (lit.) going down
Cognates
Derivations
- √NDU “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)” ✧ Let/361; SA/andúnë
Element in
- ᴺQ. fornúmen “northwest”
- Q. Herunúmen “Lord of the West”
- Q. nai tiruvantes i hárar mahalmassen mi Númen “in the keeping of those who sit upon thrones of the West” ✧ UT/305
- Q. Númellótë “Flower of the West”
- Q. Númendil “*Friend of the West”
- Q. Númenórë “Westernesse, (lit.) West-land” ✧ Let/361; PE17/016; PE17/064
- Q. Númerrámar “West-wings”
- Q. Soronúmë “*Eagle of the West”
- Q. úsië, an cé mo quernë cendelë númenna, ve senya “on the contrary, for if one turned the face westward, as was usual” ✧ VT49/22
Elements
Word Gloss nú- “going down, setting (of sun), west” men “way, way; [ᴹQ.] place, spot” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √NDU > núme [ndūme] > [nūme] ✧ Let/361 √NDU > númen [ndūmen] > [nūmen] ✧ Let/361 √ndu > númen [ndūmen] > [nūmen] ✧ SA/andúnë Variations
- núme ✧ Let/361
- Núme(n) ✧ PE17/016; PE17/064
- nūme ✧ PE17/018; PE17/125
- nūmen ✧ PE17/018; PE17/125
- Númen ✧ SA/men; UT/305; UT/317
númeheru
lord of the west
#númeheru noun "Lord of the West" (númë + heru), attested in these inflected forms: 1) númeheruen "of [the] Lord of the West" (Manwë) (SD:290); this is "Qenya" with genitive in -en instead of -o as in LotR-style Quenya; 2) pl. númeheruvi "Lords-of-West" ("West-lords" = Valar) in SD:246.
númessier
they are in the west
númessier vb. "they are in the west", a construction occurring in Fíriel's Song, evidently núme(n)-ssë-ie-r "west-in-are-they"; the stative-verb suffix -ië is probably not valid in LotR-style Quenya (FS)
andú-
going down, setting (of sun), west
andú-, nú- "going down, setting (of sun), west" (PE17:18), element underlying words like the following, and also núna (q.v.)
númë noun "going down, occident" (Letters:361), "the West" (PE17:18), núme- "west" (VT45:38, LT1:263), "the West" In númeheruen and numeheruvi, q.v.