Name of the eastern wind in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/71). It initial element is clearly óre “dawn, East”, but the meaning of the second element is unclear.
Early Quenya
ore
noun. seed, grain
óre
noun. dawn, Sunrise, East
oreros
proper name. Eastwind
oresul
proper name. Eastwind
órea
adjective. of the dawn, Eastern
maika
adjective. cruel
mile
noun. seed
eldairon
masculine name. Ælfwine
Qenya name for Ælfwine from the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/313). Most likely it also means “Elf-friend” since its initial element is clearly Elda “Elf”, but the etymology of the second element is unclear.
olirdea
adjective. pitiless, cruel, (lit.) without bowels
oro-
verb. to rise
ulird(e)a
adjective. pitiless, cruel, (lit.) without bowels
@@@ possibly based on unattested hir(d) “innards, bowels, guts”, cognate of ᴱN. girdh, as suggested by Damien Bador in private correspondance
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. ore (ori-) “seed, grain” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ORO (QL/70). Tolkien indicated its primitive form was ✱[or]ı̯ǝ. Tolkien also indicated that its root may be better analyzed as o- + ᴱ√RIẎI “scatter” (QL/70, 80).
Neo-Quenya: There are indications that the root ᴹ√RĪI̯ survived until at least the early 1930s, so I would salvage this early word but update it to ᴺQ. ori “grain” = o + RĪ. I would use the later word ᴹQ. erde for “seed”, however. I would assume that like English “grain”, ori be used both collectively for a mass of “grain” as well as an individual “grain”.