Qenya
poldore
noun. *physical strength, [ᴱQ.] physical strength; might
Element in
- ᴹQ. poldórea “strong, strong-bodied, strong, strong-bodied, [ᴱQ.] muscular, powerful” ✧ Ety/POL
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A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s that was a noun form of ᴹQ. polda “strong, burly” under the root ᴹ√POL(OD) “physically strong” (Ety/POL), so probably meaning something like “✱physical strength”. There is a similar form ᴱQ. poldor in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “physical strength” under the early root ᴱ√POLO (QL/75); this 1910s word was glossed “might” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa. For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d use this word primarily for “physical strength”.