olor noun "dream" (LOS, ÓLOS, LT1:259 [the latter source also gives olórë]); perhaps changed by Tolkien to olos, q.v.
Quenya
olo
night
olor
dream
olos
dream, vision
olos (1) noun "dream, vision" (olor-, as in pl. olori from earlier olozi) _(UT:396). _Cf. olor and see lár #2.
ló
night, a night
ló (1) noun "night, a night" (DO3/DŌ, VT45:28)
lórë
noun. dream, [ᴹQ.] slumber, *sleep; [Q.] dream
A word for “dream” in Tolkien’s later writings, most notably as an element in Lórien “✱Dream Lands” (Let/308; PE17/80). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, however, ᴹQ. lóre was glossed “slumber” under the root {ᴹ√LOR >>} ᴹ√LOS “sleep” (Ety/LOS).
Neo-Quenya: I generally use √LOR for “sleep” and √OLOS for “dream” for purposes of Neo-Eldarin. As such, I would use lóre for both “slumber, ✱sleep” and “dream” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, likely a blending of primitive ✱lōre and ✱lōse. But I would use it more for a “(dreamful) sleep”, with olor as the proper word for “dream” or “vision”.
Cognates
- ᴺS. lûr “sleep, slumber”
Derivations
- √(O)LOR “dream, vision, [ᴹ√] sleep, [ᴱ√] doze, slumber; [√] dream, vision”
Element in
- ᴺQ. cuilórë “day-dream, (lit.) awake-dream”
- Q. Lindelorendor “Singing-dream-land” ✧ Let/308; PE17/080
- Q. Lórellin “*Dream Pool”
- ᴺQ. lórelot “poppy, *(lit.) flower of sleep”
- Q. Lórien “*Dream Lands”
Variations
- lóre ✧ PE17/080
mori
night
mori noun "night" (LT1:261, in Tolkien's later Quenya mórë, morë)
tillë
tip, point
tillë (pl. tilli given) noun "tip, point", used with reference to fingers and toes (VT47:10, 26); compare ortil, nútil, q.v.
maur
dream, vision
maur noun "dream, vision" (LT1:261)
Fui
night
Fui noun "Night" (PHUY) - variant Hui, which form is probably to be preferred in light of Tolkien's later insight that the related word fuinë (see below) is actually Telerin, the proper Quenya form being huinë.
Hui
night
Hui noun "Night" (PHUY), in earlier "Qenya" defined as "evening" _(MC:214) or"fog, dark, murk, night" (LT1:253)._
?olo (reading uncertain), possibly a synonym of ló #1, hence noun "night" (VT45:28)