Quenya 

Niélë

tear

Niélë fem. name (meaning unclear, cf. nië "tear"?), diminutive Nieliccilis ("k") noun "little Niéle" (MC:215; PE16:96). This may suggest that Niélë has the stem-form *Niéli-.

nië

tear

nië noun "tear" (NEI, VT45:38, LT1:262, LT2:346); apparently níe in MC:221

nírë

tear

nírë noun "tear" (NEI)

nessa

young

nessa adj. "young" (NETH), alsoNessa as name of a Valië, the spouse of Tulkas (adopted and adapted from Valarin, or an archaic Elvish formation: WJ:404 vs. 416). Also called Indis, "bride" (NETH, NI1). The fem. name Nessanië (UT:210) would seem to incorporate Nessa's name; the second element could mean "tear" (nië), but since Nessa is not normally associated with sorrow, this #nië is perhaps rather a variant of ní "female" (compare Tintanië as a variant of Tintallë).

lúmë

darkness

lúmë (2) noun "darkness" (one wonders if Tolkien confused lúmë "time, hour" and lómë "night") (Markirya)

lúmë

noun. darkness

A noun in the 1960s versions of the Markirya glossed “darkness” (MC/222), perhaps derived from a root √DU as suggested by David Salo in a post to the Elfling mailing list in 2012 (Elfling/362.96).

Neo-Quenya: I’d generally use Q. huinë for “darkness” in Neo-Quenya, but that word is more for total darkness, whereas lúmë might be a less severe form of darkness, a variant of Q. lómë “night, dusk”.

Derivations

  • √DU “dark”

Element in

Variations

  • lúme ✧ MC/222

mor

darkness

mor noun "darkness" (Letters:308; probably just an Elvish "element" rather than a complete word; Namárië has mornië for "darkness")

mornië

darkness

mornië noun "darkness" (Nam, RGEO:67), "dark, blackness" (PE17:73). Early "Qenya" also has Mornië "Black Grief", "the black ship that plies between Mandos and Erumáni" (LT1:261). This is probably a compound of mor- "black" and nië "tear".

vinya

young

vinya (1) adj. "young" (VT46:22, VT47:26, PE17:191) or "new" (cf. compounds Vinyamar, Vinyarië below; cf. also winya "new, fresh, young" in a deleted entry in the Etymologies, VT45:16; there the word was first written as vinya.) Vinya "the Young", original name of the isle of Númenor among its own people (SD:332).

narcë

noun. *rend, tear; [ᴱQ.] snap of a dog; spiteful remark

Cognates

  • S. narch “bitter-biting”

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NARAK “tear, rend (tr. and intr.)”
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Sindarin 

nîn

noun. tear, tear; [ᴱN.] weeping

Element in

  • S. Nínedhel “?Tear(ful) Elf”
  • S. Níniel “Tear-maiden” ✧ S/219
  • ᴺS. ninna- “to weep, *cry (tears)”

Variations

  • Nín ✧ S/219 (Nín)

dúath

noun. nightshade

Sindarin [Ety/354, S/430] Either the collective plural of dû, or a compound dû+gwath "night shade" (hence dúwath). Group: SINDICT. Published by

gwein

adjective. young

adj. young. Q. vinya. >> gwîn

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:191] < WIN young. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

gwein

adjective. young

môr

noun. darkness, dark, night

Sindarin [Ety/373, Letters/382] Group: SINDICT. Published by

dúath

noun. darkness, shadow

Sindarin [Ety/354, S/430] Either the collective plural of dû, or a compound dû+gwath "night shade" (hence dúwath). Group: SINDICT. Published by

nîr

tear

_(noun) _1) nîr (construct nir) (weeping). No distinct pl. form; coll. pl. níriath. Noun ”

nîr

tear

(construct nir) (weeping). No distinct pl. form; coll. pl. níriath. Noun ”

nínui

5~B5hJ adjective. tearful

Nîn (tear) + -ui (full, having that quality).

Sindarin [Elfdict.com] Published by

rov-

verb. to tear

Derivations

  • ᴺ✶. RUB “burst asunder”

nírnaeth

tear-gnashing

; no distinct pl. form. 2) nîn; no distinct pl. form; pl. níniath. Note: nîn is also used as a noun ”tear” and as the pl. form of nên ”water”; there is also the possessive pronoun nín ”my”.

narcha

rend

narcha- (i narcha, in narchar)

dû

darkness

1) dû (i dhû) (night, nightfall, late evening, dusk), pl. dui (i nui) (SD:302), 2) fuin (gloom, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form. 3) môr (i vôr, construct mor), pl. mŷr (i mŷr) if there is a pl. (Letters:382); 4 morn (i vorn) (night), pl. myrn (i myrn). Note: the word môr, morn is also used as an adjective ”dark, black”. (Letters:386)

dû

darkness

(i dhû) (night, nightfall, late evening, dusk), pl. dui (i nui) (SD:302)

fuin

darkness

(gloom, night, dead of night, nightshade). No distinct pl. form.

môr

darkness

(i vôr, construct mor), pl. m**ŷr (i m**ŷr) if there is a pl. (Letters:382); 4 morn (i vorn) (night), pl. myrn (i myrn). Note: the word môr, morn is also used as an adjective ”dark, black”. (Letters:386)

dess

young woman

(i ness, o ndess, constuct des), pl. diss (i ndiss)

neth

young

neth (pl. nith). A homophone is the noun ”sister, girl”.

neth

young

(pl. nith). A homophone is the noun ”sister, girl”.

Black Speech

burzum

noun. darkness

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
búrz“dark”
-um“particularizing suffix”
Black Speech [LotR/0254; PE17/011; PE17/012] Group: Eldamo. Published by

burzum

noun. darkness

Black Speech [PE17/11] Published by

Primitive elvish

win

root. young, young, [ᴹ√] new, fresh

Tolkien used a similar set of Elvish roots for “youth” and “freshness” for many years. The earliest of these was primitive guı̯u̯ or gu̯iu̯ [ᴱ√GWIWI] in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like G. gui “just, just now, only just, already”, G. guin “recent, fresh”, and G. gwioth “youth” (GL/42). This root reappeared as ᴹ√WIR “new, fresh, young” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with variants ᴹ√WĪ and ᴹ√WIN and derivatives ᴹQ. vírie “youth” and ᴹQ. virya “fresh” (EtyAC/WIR). The ᴹ√WIN variant had derivatives ᴹQ. vinya/N. gwîn “young”. Tolkien considered, but rejected, deriving these from strengthened ᴹ√GWIN instead, producing (also rejected) ᴹQ. winya/N. bîn (EtyAC/GWIN).

Q. vinya appeared in quite a few later names with the gloss “young” or “new”, but the Sindarin form became S. gwain as in S. Narwain “January, ✱(lit.) New Fire” (LotR/1110) and S. Iarwain “Old-young” (LotR/1114; RC/128). In Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959, both were given as derivatives of √WIN “young” along with Q. víne/S. gwîn “youth”, though the Sindarin word for “young” was given as (archaic?) gwein (PE17/191). Also related are various words for “baby” from 1968 notes such Q. †wine/S. gwinig “little-one, baby” (VT48/6). In these notes primitive wini was glossed “little” but this was deleted (VT47/26), making it likely that the earlier senses “young, new” were restored for √WIN.

As for the 1930s root ᴹ√WIR, it might have survived as an element in the month names Q. Víressë/S. Gwirith “April” (LotR/1110), perhaps meaning “✱freshness”.

Derivatives

  • ✶wini “child not yet full grown” ✧ VT47/26
    • Q. winë “baby, little-one, child not yet full grown” ✧ VT47/26
  • ᴺQ. vin “just, just now, only just, already”
  • Q. vínë “youth, youth, *childhood” ✧ PE17/191; VT47/26
  • Q. vinya “young, new” ✧ PE17/191; VT47/26
  • Q. Víressë “April, *Freshness”
  • S. gwain “young, *new” ✧ PE17/191
  • ᴺS. gwí “just, just now, only just, already”
  • S. gwîn “youth” ✧ PE17/191

Element in

Variations

  • wini ✧ VT47/26 (wini)
  • win ✧ VT47/26
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Noldorin 

nîn

noun. tear

Noldorin [Ety/376] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nîn

noun. tear

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶neinē “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
    • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI
  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Element in

  • N. Níniel “Tear-maiden; Tearful”
  • N. niniel “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • N. nínui “*tearful”
  • N. nínim “snowdrop” ✧ Ety/NEI

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶neinē > nîn[neinē] > [neine] > [nīne] > [nīn]✧ Ety/NEI

Variations

  • nî ✧ EtyAC/NEI (nî)
Noldorin [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nîr

noun. tear, weeping

Noldorin [Ety/376] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nîr

noun. tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neñrē “tear, weeping” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI

Element in

  • S. nirnaeth “tears, tears, [N.] lamentation”
  • N. nírnaeth “lamentation” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴺS. nírol “sad, sorrowing, *sorrowful”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√NEI̯ > nîr[neire] > [nīre] > [nīr]✧ Ety/NEI
ᴹ✶neñrē > nîr[neŋrē] > [neɣrē] > [nēre] > [nīre] > [nīr]✧ EtyAC/NEI
Noldorin [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

narcha-

verb. to rend

Noldorin [Ety/374] Group: SINDICT. Published by

dúath

noun. nightshade

Noldorin [Ety/354, S/430] Either the collective plural of dû, or a compound dû+gwath "night shade" (hence dúwath). Group: SINDICT. Published by

dúwath

noun. nightshade

Noldorin [Ety/354, S/430] Either the collective plural of dû, or a compound dû+gwath "night shade" (hence dúwath). Group: SINDICT. Published by

neth

adjective. young

Noldorin [Ety/377] Group: SINDICT. Published by

neth

adjective. young

irregular, compare: tathor @@@

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. nessa “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶nethrā “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • ᴹ√NETH “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • ᴹ√NETH “young” ✧ Ety/NĪ¹; EtyAC/NIS

Element in

  • N. dineth “bride” ✧ Ety/NĪ¹; EtyAC/NIS
  • N. Neth “Nessa” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • N. Nethwelein “Younger Gods”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶nethra > neth[netʰra] > [neθra] > [neθr] > [neθ]✧ Ety/NETH
Noldorin [Ety/NETH; Ety/NĪ¹; EtyAC/NIS] Group: Eldamo. Published by

môr

noun. darkness, dark, night

Noldorin [Ety/373, Letters/382] Group: SINDICT. Published by

dúath

noun. darkness, shadow

Noldorin [Ety/354, S/430] Either the collective plural of dû, or a compound dû+gwath "night shade" (hence dúwath). Group: SINDICT. Published by

dúwath

noun. darkness, shadow

Noldorin [Ety/354, S/430] Either the collective plural of dû, or a compound dû+gwath "night shade" (hence dúwath). Group: SINDICT. Published by

gwîn

adjective. young

Changes

  • gwîn → bîn ✧ EtyAC/GWIN

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. vinya “young, new” ✧ EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR

Derivations

  • ᴹ√WIN “new, fresh, young” ✧ EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√GWIN > bîn[gwinje] > [binje] > [binie] > [bini] > [bin] > [bīn]✧ EtyAC/GWIN
ᴹ√WINI > gwîn[winje] > [gwinje] > [gwinie] > [gwini] > [gwin] > [gwīn]✧ EtyAC/WIR

Variations

  • bîn ✧ EtyAC/GWIN (bîn)
  • gwîn ✧ EtyAC/GWIN (gwîn); EtyAC/WIR
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Qenya 

nie

noun. tear

Cognates

  • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neinē “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI

Element in

  • ᴺQ. nienaitë “tearful”
  • Q. nieninquë “snowdrop, snowdrop, [ᴹQ.] (lit.) white tear”
  • ᴹQ. nieninqe “snowdrop, (lit.) white tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • Q. Nienna “Lady of Pity and Mourning”
  • ᴹQ. Nienna ✧ Ety/NEI
  • Q. Nienor “Mourning”
  • ᴹQ. Nienor “Sorrowful, Mourning”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√NEI̯ > níre[neire] > [nīre]✧ Ety/NEI
ᴹ√NEI̯ > nie[neje] > [nie]✧ Ety/NEI
ᴹ✶neñē > neʒe > nie[neŋe] > [neɣe] > [neje] > [nie]✧ EtyAC/NEI

Variations

  • níre ✧ Ety/NEI
Qenya [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI; PE21/06; PE21/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nessa

adjective. young

Cognates

  • N. neth “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶nethrā “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • ᴹ√NETH “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶neth-rā > nessa[netʰrā] > [netsā] > [netsa] > [nessa]✧ Ety/NETH

Doriathrin

ungol

noun. darkness

A noun for “darkness” developed from the root ᴹ√UÑG (Ety/UÑG), perhaps from a primitive form ✱✶uñglē̆ [uŋglē̆] as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Ilkorin/ungol): after the [[ilk|primitive final [e] was lost]], the resulting [[ilk|final [l] would become syllabic and develop into [-ol]]].

Derivations

  • ᴹ√UÑG “*gloom” ✧ Ety/UÑG

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√UÑG > ungol[uŋgle] > [uŋgl] > [uŋgol]✧ Ety/UÑG
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Middle Primitive Elvish

neinē

noun. tear

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
  • N. nîn “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Element in

  • ᴹ✶neiniel- “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI

Variations

  • neñē ✧ EtyAC/NEI (neñē)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ney

root. tear

Tolkien used similar forms throughout his life for Elvish words connected to “tears”, the most enduring being Q. Nienna “Lady of Pity and Mourning” and S. nirnaeth as in Nirnaeth Arnoediad “[Battle of] Tears Unnumbered”. The first manifestation of this root was as ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” and ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, though Tolkien considered moving all the derivatives of ᴱ√NYE(NE) to ᴱ√NYEHE (QL/68). Nonetheless it seems the distinction survived in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon which had both nı̯e and nı̯eχe as primitive forms (GL/59-60). Early derivatives include ᴱQ. nyé “bleat” and ᴱQ. nyéni “she-goat” along with ᴱQ. nyére/G. nîr “grief” and ᴱQ. nie/G. nîn “tear”, the last of these appearing in G. Nínin-Udathriol, the earliest name of S. Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

The root reappeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√NEI̯ “tear” (Ety/NEI), though Tolkien considered and rejected alternate roots ᴹ√NEÑ (EtyAC/NEI) and ᴹ√NEI̯(ET) “moist” (NEI̯(ET)), the latter becoming the primitive word ᴹ✶neiti > ᴹQ. níte “moist, dewy” and N. nîd “damp, wet; tearful”. Other derivatives include ᴹQ. nie “tear”/N. nîn “tear” (same as the forms from the 1910s) as well as N. nírnaeth “lamentation” (Ety/NEI). Tolkien’s continued use of Q. Nienna (S/28) and S. nirnaeth (S/192) in later versions of the Silmarillion indicate this root’s ongoing validity.

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think some of the Quenya nye- forms from the 1910s might be salvaged as abnormal vocalization from n(e)ye- < √NEY.

Changes

  • NEÑ → NEI̯ ✧ Ety/NEI

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶neinē “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI
    • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • N. nîn “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neiti “moist, dewy” ✧ Ety/NEI
    • ᴹQ. níte “moist, dewy, moist, dewy, *damp (of weather)” ✧ Ety/NEI
    • N. nîd “damp, wet; tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neñrē “tear, weeping” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
  • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴺQ. níta- “to weep, cry [tears]”
  • ᴹQ. níte “moist, dewy, moist, dewy, *damp (of weather)” ✧ EtyAC/NEI̯(ET)
  • ᴺQ. nyé “bleat, cry of goat or sheep”
  • ᴺQ. nyenyë “weeping”
  • ᴺQ. nyérë “grief”
  • N. nîd “damp, wet; tearful” ✧ EtyAC/NEI̯(ET)
  • N. nîn “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴺS. nínia- “to weep”
  • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Element in

  • ᴹQ. nieninqe “snowdrop, (lit.) white tear” ✧ Ety/NIK-W
  • ᴺS. nída- “to weep, cry (tears)”

Variations

  • NEI̯ ✧ Ety/NEI
  • NEI ✧ Ety/NIK-W; EtyAC/NEI
  • NEÑ ✧ EtyAC/NEI (NEÑ); EtyAC/NEI̯(ET) (NEÑ)
  • NEI̯(ET) ✧ EtyAC/NEI̯(ET) (NEI̯(ET))
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NEI; Ety/NIK-W; EtyAC/NEI; EtyAC/NEI̯(ET)] Group: Eldamo. Published by

skar

root. tear, rend

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “tear, rend” with derivatives like ᴹQ. harna-/N. parch “to wound” and ᴹQ. harwe/N. harw “wound” (Ety/SKAR).

Derivatives

  • Ilk. esgar “wound” ✧ Ety/SKAR
  • ᴹ✶askarā “tearing, hastening” ✧ Ety/SKAR
    • Ilk. ascar “violent, rushing, impetuous” ✧ Ety/SKAR
    • ᴺQ. ascara “violent, rushing, impetuous”
    • N. asgar “violent, rushing, impetuous” ✧ Ety/SKAR
  • ᴹ✶skarnā “wounded” ✧ Ety/SKAR
    • ᴹQ. harna “wounded” ✧ Ety/SKAR
    • N. harn “wounded” ✧ Ety/SKAR
  • ᴹ✶skarwē “wound” ✧ Ety/SKAR
    • ᴹQ. harwe “wound” ✧ Ety/SKAR
    • N. harw “wound” ✧ Ety/SKAR
  • ᴹQ. harna- “to wound” ✧ Ety/SKAR
  • ᴺS. escar “weapon”
  • N. harna- “to wound” ✧ Ety/SKAR

Variations

  • SKAR ✧ Ety/SKAR
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neñrē

noun. tear, weeping

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI

Derivatives

  • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
Middle Primitive Elvish [EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

narak

root. tear, rend (tr. and intr.)

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “tear, rend (tr. and intr.)”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. naraka “harsh, rending, violent” and N. narcha- “to rend” (Ety/NÁRAK). The element S. narch “bitter-biting” in S. Narchost from The Lord of the Rings is probably related (LotR/900; RC/601). This in turn hints that the early root ᴱ√NARA “(properly) bite at” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s was a likely precursor, though a parenthetical comment indicates the actual form of this root was ᴱ√ŊARA or ᴱ√ŊAŘA [ŊAÐA] (QL/64).

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶narāka “rushing, rapid, violent” ✧ Ety/NÁRAK
    • ᴹQ. naraka “harsh, rending, violent of (?sounds)” ✧ Ety/NÁRAK
    • N. Narog ✧ Ety/NÁRAK
  • ᴺQ. narca “snappy, ill-tempered”
  • ᴺQ. narcë “*rend, tear; [ᴱQ.] snap of a dog; spiteful remark”
  • ᴹQ. narka- “to rend” ✧ Ety/NÁRAK
  • S. narch “bitter-biting”
  • N. narch “*bitter-biting”
  • N. narcha- “to rend” ✧ Ety/NÁRAK

Variations

  • NÁRAK ✧ Ety/NÁRAK
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nethrā

adjective. young

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NETH “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. nessa “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • N. neth “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Variations

  • neth-rā ✧ Ety/NETH
  • nethra ✧ Ety/NETH
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NETH] Group: Eldamo. Published by

neth

root. young

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶nēthē “youth” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • ᴹQ. nése “youth” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • N. nîth “youth” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • ᴹ✶nethrā “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • ᴹQ. nessa “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • N. neth “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • ᴹQ. nése “youth” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • ᴹQ. Nessa “*Young” ✧ Ety/NETH
  • N. nesta- “to heal”
  • N. Neth “Nessa” ✧ Ety/NĪ¹
  • N. neth “young” ✧ Ety/NĪ¹; EtyAC/NIS

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Nessaron “*Day of the Younger Gods” ✧ Ety/LEP
  • N. Nethwelein “Younger Gods” ✧ Ety/LEP
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/LEP; Ety/NETH; Ety/NĪ¹; EtyAC/NIS] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

nien(n)

noun. tear

nîn

noun. tear

Cognates

  • Eq. nie “tear” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nienna

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nienna
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59

Element in

  • G. Nenir ✧ GL/60
  • G. Níniel “Child of Tears” ✧ LT2A/Níniel
  • G. ninna- “to weep” ✧ GL/60; LT2A/Níniel
  • G. ninios “lamentation, dropping of tears” ✧ GL/60; LT2A/Níniel
  • G. Nínin-Udathriol “Unnumbered Tears” ✧ LT2A/Níniel

Variations

  • nien(n) ✧ GL/60
Gnomish [GL/60; LT1A/Nienna; LT2A/Níniel] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ruf-

verb. to tear

Derivations

  • ᴱ√RUVU “burst asunder”

Variations

  • ruf ✧ GL/66

morth

noun. darkness

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MORO “*black, dark” ✧ LT1A/Mornië

Element in

Gnomish [GL/58; LT1A/Mornië] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gân

adjective. young

Cognates

  • Eq. kana “young” ✧ GL/37

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GANA “young”

Element in

  • G. gân ar gantha “*young and old, (lit.) young and adult” ✧ GL/37
  • G. ganos “youth” ✧ GL/37

Variations

  • Gân ✧ GL/37

gwiog

adjective. young

gwion

adjective. young

gwiw

adjective. young

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWIWI “*young” ✧ GL/42

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√gu̯iu̯ > gwiw[gwiw]✧ GL/42

Variations

  • gwion ✧ GL/42
  • gwiog ✧ GL/42

Early Noldorin

nîr

noun. tear

Element in

Variations

  • nír ✧ PE13/151
Early Noldorin [PE13/151] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

nyeχie

noun. tear

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ GL/60; QL/068
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59

Derivatives

  • Eq. nie “tear” ✧ GL/60; QL/068

Variations

  • nı̯eχie ✧ GL/60
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/60; QL/068] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sṇkṇ

root. rend, tear

Derivatives

  • Eq. sanka “rend, jab” ✧ QL/085
Early Primitive Elvish [LT2A/Glamhoth; QL/085] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gana Speculative

root. young

A hypothetical early root that would explain words appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as ᴱQ. kana and G. gân “young” (GL/37). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writings.

Derivatives

Early Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

nie

noun. tear

Cognates

  • G. nîn “tear” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nienna

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶nyeχie “tear” ✧ GL/60; QL/068
    • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ GL/60; QL/068
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59
  • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ LT1A/Nienna
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶nı̯eχie > nie[nʲexiē] > [nʲexie] > [nʲeɣie] > [nʲeie] > [nʲie] > [nie]✧ GL/60
ᴱ✶nyeχie > nie[nʲexiē] > [nʲexie] > [nʲeɣie] > [nʲeie] > [nʲie] > [nie]✧ QL/068

Variations

  • nië ✧ LT1A/Nienna
  • níe ✧ MC/221
Early Quenya [GL/60; LT1A/Nienna; LT2A/Nínin-Udathriol; MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/077; PE16/143; PME/069; QL/068] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kana

adjective. young

Cognates

  • G. gân “young” ✧ GL/37

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GANA “young”
Early Quenya [GL/37] Group: Eldamo. Published by