nehtar

slayer

#nehtar noun "slayer", isolated from Morinehtar "Darkness-slayer" (PM:384, 385). It may be that a verbal stem #nehta- "to slay, kill" can also be isolated from this noun, though the attested form is actually nahta- (a possible example of A/E variation).

nehtar

noun. slayer

An element in Morinehtar “Darkness-slayer”, a name of one of the Blue Wizards (PM/384). It seems to be an agental form of nahta- “to slay”, but the reason why the vowel is e is unclear.

Cognates

• S. dagnir “slayer, bane”

Element in

• Q. Morinehtar “Darkness-slayer” ✧ PM/384

Elements

Word	Gloss
nahta-	“to slay; to hurt, injure, wound, to slay, [ᴱQ.] slay cruelly; [Q.] to hurt, injure, wound”

nahtar

noun. slayer, murderer

A neologism for “murderer, slayer” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), an agental form of nahta- “to slay”.

Element in

• ᴺQ. atannahtar “man-slayer”

Elements

Word	Gloss
nahta-	“to slay; to hurt, injure, wound, to slay, [ᴱQ.] slay cruelly; [Q.] to hurt, injure, wound”

nancarindo

noun. destroyer

Elements

Word	Gloss
nancar-	“to undo, to undo, *destroy”

nancáro

noun. destroyer

Elements

Word	Gloss
nancar-	“to undo, to undo, *destroy”

nacil

noun. victor

Cognates

• ᴺS. degil “victor, winner”

Derivations

• √NDAK “hew, slay, slay; hew”

dagnir

noun. slayer

dagnir

masculine name. *Slayer

One of the twelve companions of Barahir (S/155). His name seems to be the noun dagnir “slayer” used as a name.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this character was first named N. Dengar, soon changed to N. Dagnir (SM/319).

Elements

Word	Gloss
dagnir	“slayer, bane”

dagnir

noun. slayer, bane

A word for “slayer” (PE17/97), a noun form of dag- “to slay” with the agental suffix -nir, appearing in the (somewhat loosely translated) phrase: Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga “Túrin Turambar, Glaurung’s Bane” (S/226). I would use this word as “bane” only in the sense of “one who has killed” or “one who will kill”.

Cognates

• Q. -ndacil “-victor, -slayer”
• Q. nehtar “slayer”

Element in

• S. Dagnir “*Slayer”
• ᴺS. dagnis “slayer, bane (f.)”
• S. Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga “Túrin Turambar, Glaurung’s Bane” ✧ S/226; SA/dagor
• S. dagnir an Glaurung “slayer of Glaurung” ✧ PE17/097

Elements

Word	Gloss
dag-	“to slay, to slay, [ᴱN.] kill”
dîr	“man, man, [N.] adult male; agental suffix”

Variations

• DAGNIR ✧ S/226
• Dagnir ✧ SA/dagor

dagnir

noun. bane

dagnis

noun. slayer, bane (f.)

A neologism that is a feminine variant of dagnir coined by Fiona Jallings: compare [N.] meldis vs. [N.] meldir, words for female vs. male friends (Ety/MEL).

Elements

Word	Gloss
dagnir	“slayer, bane”

dagnir

bane

(= killer) dagnir (i nagnir, o ndagnir), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndagnir), coll. pl. dagniriath

dagnir

bane

(i nagnir, o ndagnir), no distinct pl. form except with article (i ndagnir), coll. pl. dagniriath

tûr

victor, victory

(i dûr, o thûr, construct tur) (mastery, power, control; master, lord), pl. t**uir (i th**uir), coll. pl. túrath