Quenya 

vanë

fair

vanë adj. "fair" (LT1:272; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather vanya)

vanë

adjective. fair, fair, [ᴱQ.] lovely

Derivations

  • BAN “beauty (due to lack of fault or blemish); fair, beautiful” ✧ PE17/056

Element in

  • Q. úvanë(a) “without beauty”
  • Q. vanessë “beauty” ✧ PE17/056
  • Q. vanië “beauty” ✧ PE17/056
  • Q. vanima “beautiful, fair, beautiful, fair, *handsome; [ᴱQ.] proper, right, as it should be, fair” ✧ PE17/056

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
BAN > vane[bani] > [bane] > [βane] > [vane]✧ PE17/056

Variations

  • vane ✧ PE17/056

vanya

fair

vanya (1) adj. "fair" (FS), "beautiful" (BAN), a word referring to beauty that is "due to lack of fault, or blemish" (PE17:150), hence Arda Vanya as an alternative to Arda Alahasta for "Arda Unmarred" (ibid., compare MR:254). Nominal pl. Vanyar "the Fair", the first clan of the Eldar; the original meaning of this stem was "pale, light-coloured, not brown or dark" (WJ:382, 383, stem given as WAN), "properly = white complexion and blonde hair" (PE17:154, stem given as GWAN); stems BAN vs. WAN discussed, see PE17:150.

-ima

fair

-ima adjectival suffix. Sometimes it is used to derive simple adjectives, like vanima "fair" or calima "bright"; it can also take on the meaning "-able" (PE17:68), as in mátima "edible" (mat- "eat"), nótima "countable" (not- "count") and (with a negative prefix) úquétima "unspeakable" (from quet- "speak"). Note that the stem-vowel is normally lengthened in the derivatives where -ima means "-able", though this fails to occur in cenima "visible" (q.v., but contrast hraicénima, q.v.) and also before a consonant cluster as in úfantima "not concealable" (PE17:176). "X-ima" may mean "apt to X" (when the ending is added to an intransitive verbal stem), as in Fírimar "mortals", literally "those apt to die" (WJ:387). The adj. úfantima "not concealable" (PE17:176) also appears as úfantuma (PE17:180), indicating the existence of a variant ending -uma (possibly used to derive adjectives with a "bad" meaning; compare the ending *-unqua next to -inqua, q.v.)

alya

fair, good

alya (1) adj. "fair, good" (PE17:146), "prosperous, rich, abundant, blessed" (GALA). In a deleted entry in Etym, the glosses provided were "rich, blessed"; another deleted entry defined alya as "rich, prosperous, blessed". (GALA, [ÁLAM], VT42:32, 45:5, 14)

alima

fair, good

alima adj. "fair, good" (also alya) (PE17:146)

auta-

verb. to go (away), depart, leave; to disappear, be lost, pass away

Cognates

  • S. gwae- “to go, depart” ✧ PE17/148
  • T. auta- “to go, depart, pass away” ✧ WJ/366

Derivations

  • WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out” ✧ PE17/063; PE17/063; PE17/148; WJ/365
  • awta- ✧ PE17/063; WJ/366; WJ/366
    • WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out”

Element in

  • ᴺQ. autaila “going, passing, nearly gone”
  • Q. auta i lómë “The night is passing!” ✧ S/190; WJ/166
  • Q. áva márië “go happily” ✧ PE17/162
  • Q. vanwa “gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, [ᴹQ.] gone for good; [ᴱQ.] on the road” ✧ PE17/063; WJ/366
  • ᴺQ. autamar “museum, (lit.) hall of the past”
  • Q. yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier “the years have passed like swift draughts” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
  • Q. yéni avánier ve lintë yuldar “years have passed away like swift draughts” ✧ RGEO/58

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
AWA > auta-[awta] > [auta]✧ PE17/063
wāne > vāne[wāne] > [βāne] > [vāne]✧ PE17/063
AWA > auta-[awta] > [auta]✧ PE17/063
AWA/WĀ > auta[awta] > [auta]✧ PE17/148
AWA > auta-[awta] > [auta]✧ WJ/365

Variations

  • auta- ✧ PE17/063; PE17/063; WJ/366
  • av|va ✧ PE17/063
  • auta ✧ PE17/148
Quenya [LotR/0377; PE17/063; PE17/148; PE17/162; PE22/164; RC/341; RGEO/58; S/190; WJ/166; WJ/366] Group: Eldamo. Published by

linda

fair, beautiful

linda adj. "fair, beautiful" (of sound) (SLIN, LIND; VT45:27), "soft, gentle, light" (PE16:96), "beautiful, sweet, melodious of sound" (PE17:150); for Linda as a noun, see Lindar.

Sindarin 

bain

fair

_ adj. _fair, good, blessed, wholesome, favourable, without evil/bad element, not dangerous, evil or hostile. bân or bain << bân pl. bain. >> bân

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:150] < BAN beauty, with implication that it is due to _lack of fault_ or _blemish_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

fael

adjective. fair minded, just, generous

Sindarin [PM/352] Etym. "having a good fëa". Group: SINDICT. Published by

bân

adjective. fair

_ adj. _fair, good, wholesome, favourable, not dangerous, evil or hostile. bân or bain << bân pl. bain. >> bain

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:150] < BAN beauty, with implication that it is due to _lack of fault_ or _blemish_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

gwain

adjective. fair

adj. fair. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:140] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

gwana

noun/adjective. fair

Changes

  • gwaingwana “fair, general word for Elves” ✧ PE17/140

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
wanasō > gwana[wanasō] > [wanaso] > [wanaho] > [gwanaho] > [gwanah] > [gwana]✧ PE17/140

Variations

  • gwain ✧ PE17/140 (gwain)
Sindarin [PE17/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gwân

adjective. fair

_ adj. _fair, pale.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:165] < _gwan_ < GWAN pale, fair. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

lind

adjective. fair

Derivations

  • LIN “sing, make a musical sound, sing, make a musical sound, [ᴱ√] gentle”

Element in

  • S. Linhir “Fair Stream” ✧ RC/587

Variations

  • lin ✧ RC/587 (lin)

men-

verb. to go

Derivations

  • MEN “go, move, proceed (in any direction); make for, go towards; have as object, (in)tend; direction, object, point moved toward; region”

Element in

  • S. dadwen- “to return, go back”
  • S. nidhin mened “I have a mind to go, I intend to go” ✧ PE22/165
Sindarin [PE17/093; PE22/165] Group: Eldamo. Published by

bain

fair

bain (beautiful). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

bain

fair

(beautiful). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

Telerin 

auta-

verb. to go, depart, pass away

Cognates

  • Q. auta- “to go (away), depart, leave; to disappear, be lost, pass away” ✧ WJ/366

Derivations

  • WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out” ✧ WJ/365

Adûnaic

yad-

verb. to go

A verb appearing in the Lament of Akallabêth in the form ayadda “(it) went” (SD/247, VT24/12). Its initial element is the 3rd persons neuter plural suffix a- “it”. This leaves the basic verb form yadda, which is the past tense according to the theories used here.

Conceptual Development: It appeared in the form yadda in the first draft version of the Lament, and this form was also briefly considered as a replacement for unakkha “he-came” in the first sentence of the Lament (SD/312).

Element in

Adûnaic [SD/247; SD/312; VT24/12] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Primitive elvish

bani

adjective. fair

Element in

  • Q. vanië “beauty” ✧ PE17/057
  • Q. vanima “beautiful, fair, beautiful, fair, *handsome; [ᴱQ.] proper, right, as it should be, fair” ✧ PE17/057

Variations

  • vanĭ ✧ PE17/057
Primitive elvish [PE17/057] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wanyā

adjective. fair

Derivations

  • (G)WAN “pale, fair” ✧ WJ/383

Derivatives

  • Q. Vanya “Fair Elves, the Fair” ✧ WJ/380; WJ/383
    • T. Vania “Vanya” ✧ WJ/383

Variations

  • wanjā ✧ WJ/380; WJ/383
Primitive elvish [WJ/380; WJ/383] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Noldorin 

ledh-

verb. to go, to go, *travel, journey

@@@ extended meanings suggested by Fiona Jallings

Derivations

  • On. led- “to fare”
    • ᴹ√LED “go, fare, travel” ✧ Ety/LED; EtyAC/LED

Element in

  • N. neledh- “*to go in, enter” ✧ TAI/150

Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Qenya 

vanima

adjective. fair

Derivations

  • ᴹ√BAN “*beauty” ✧ Ety/BAN

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Vanimo “The Beautiful; Fair Folk” ✧ Ety/BAN

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√BAN > vanima[banima] > [βanima] > [vanima]✧ Ety/BAN

Middle Primitive Elvish

ban

root. *beauty

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶Banā ✧ Ety/BAN
    • ᴹQ. Vana ✧ Ety/BAN
    • On. Bana ✧ Ety/BAN
    • ᴹT. Bana ✧ Ety/BAN
  • ᴹ✶ūbanō “monster” ✧ Ety/BAN
    • N. úan “monster” ✧ Ety/BAN
  • ᴹ✶bányā “beautiful” ✧ Ety/BAN
    • ᴹQ. vanya “beautiful, fair” ✧ Ety/BAN
    • N. bein “fair, beautiful” ✧ Ety/BAN
  • ᴹQ. uvana “wicked”
  • ᴹQ. vanima “fair” ✧ Ety/BAN

Element in

  • ᴹQ. úvanimo “monster” ✧ Ety/GŪ
  • ᴹQ. Vanimo “The Beautiful; Fair Folk” ✧ Ety/UGU

Variations

  • BAN² ✧ EtyAC/BAN² (BAN²)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/BAN; Ety/GŪ; Ety/GWEN; Ety/UGU; EtyAC/BAN²] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

vana

root. *beauty

Changes

  • VANEVANA ✧ QL/099

Derivatives

  • Eq. Vána ✧ LT1A/Vána; QL/099
  • Eq. Vanar “Valar” ✧ LT1A/Vána; QL/099
  • Eq. vande “well” ✧ QL/099
  • Eq. vane “fair, lovely” ✧ LT1A/Vána; QL/099
  • G. Ban “god, one of the Valar” ✧ QL/099
  • G. Gwannuin ✧ LT1A/Vána
  • En. gwant “?beautiful”
  • G. gwant “beautiful, fair; loveliness” ✧ LT1A/Vána

Element in

  • Eq. ulban “monster, giant”
  • Eq. Vansil “Fairgleam”
  • G. gwandra “beautiful” ✧ LT1A/Vána
  • G. gwanthi “fairness, beauty; a fair face, pretty” ✧ LT1A/Vána

Variations

  • VANE ✧ QL/099 (VANE)
Early Primitive Elvish [LT1A/Vána; QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

vane

adjective. fair, lovely

Cognates

  • G. gwandra “beautiful” ✧ LT1A/Vána
  • G. gwant “beautiful, fair; loveliness” ✧ LT1A/Vána

Derivations

  • ᴱ√VANA “*beauty” ✧ LT1A/Vána; QL/099

Element in

  • Eq. vanéni “beauty” ✧ QL/099
  • Eq. vanesse “beauty” ✧ LT1A/Vána; QL/099
  • Eq. vanima “proper, right, as it should be, fair” ✧ LT1A/Vána; QL/099

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√VANA > vane[βani] > [βane] > [vane]✧ QL/099

Variations

  • vanë ✧ LT1A/Vána
Early Quenya [LT1A/Vána; QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ere-

verb. to go

Derivations

  • ᴱ√EÐE “out”

Variations

  • ere ✧ PE16/133 (ere)
Early Quenya [PE16/133] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tie-

verb. to go

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TEHE “‽pull”

Variations

  • tie ✧ PE16/133 (tie)
Early Quenya [PE16/133] Group: Eldamo. Published by