naraca

harsh, rending, violent

naraca ("k")adj. "harsh, rending, violent" (NÁRAK; according to VT45:37, Tolkien added a qualification that is not certainly legible: "of [?sounds]")

vercála

adjective. sudden, violent

Cognates

• S. bregol “quick, sudden, quick, sudden, [N.] violent, *fierce”

Derivations

• ᴹ✶berékā “wild”
  • ᴹ√BEREK “*sudden, fierce” ✧ Ety/BERÉK

ascara

adjective. violent, rushing, impetuous

Derivations

• ᴹ✶askarā “tearing, hastening”
  • ᴹ√SKAR “tear, rend” ✧ Ety/SKAR

melehta

mighty

melehta adj. "mighty" (PE17:115), cf. meletya

melehta

adjective. mighty

An adjective for “mighty” derived from the root √MBELEK in a page of notes having to do with “large & small” words, probably from the late 1960s (PE17/115), apparently from the primitive form ✱✶mbelektā (with [kt] > [ht]). A variant form meletya appears with the 2nd-plural possessive suffix -lda as Meletyalda “your mighty” in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 (WJ/369), likely from the primitive form ✱✶mbelekya (with [kj] > [tj]). This variant form has a more typical primitive adjective suffix ✶-ya, but is inconsistent with the attested Sindarin cognate S. belaith, so I’d stick with melehta for purposes of Neo-Quenya.

Cognates

• S. belaith “mighty” ✧ PE17/115

Derivations

• √MBELEK “mighty, powerful, strong; power as force or strength; great, large” ✧ PE17/115
  • √BEL “*strong, [ᴹ√] strong” ✧ PE17/115

Element in

• Q. Aran Meletyalda “king your mighty” ✧ WJ/369

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√mbelek > melehta	[mbelekta] > [melekta] > [melexta]	✧ PE17/115

meletya

mighty

#meletya adj. "mighty", isolated from meletyalda adjective with suffix "your mighty" = "your majesty" (see -lda; meletya = *"mighty"). In full Aran Meletyalda "king your mighty" = "your majesty" (WJ:369). Compare melehta.

meletya

adjective. mighty

rimpa

rushing, flying

rimpa adj.? noun? "rushing, flying" (RIP; the word is more likely an adjective)

taura

mighty, masterful

taura adj. "mighty, masterful" (TUR, PE17:115), "very mighty, vast, of unmeasured might or size" (VT39:10). Cf. túrëa.

ascar

violent

1) ascar (rushing, impetuous), pl. escair. Also spelt asgar (pl. esgair). 2) bregol (sudden, fierce), lenited vregol, pl. bregoel. Archaic *bregaul.

ascar

violent

(rushing, impetuous), pl. escair. Also spelt asgar (pl. esgair).

bregol

violent

(sudden, fierce), lenited vregol, pl. bregoel. Archaic ✱bregaul.

rimp

rushing

(adj.) 1) rimp (flying), no distinct pl. form; 2) alag (impetuous), pl. elaig; also alagon (pl. elegyn); 3) ascar (impetuous, violent), pl. escair. Also spelt asgar (pl. esgair).

ascar

rushing

(impetuous, violent), pl. escair. Also spelt asgar (pl. esgair).

beleg

mighty

1) beleg (great), lenited veleg, pl. belig; 2) taur (also tor-, tar- in compounds) (lofty, high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.

bragol

sudden

1) bragol (lenited vragol), pl. bragoel. Archaic *bragaul. 2) brêg (quick, lively), lenited vrêg, pl. brîg.

braig

fierce

braig (wild), lenited vraig. No distinct pl. form. (VT45:34)

balch

adjective. fierce

_ adj. _fierce, ferocious. In S. gwal < bal which coalesced in form with BAL 'have power'.

belaith

adjective. mighty

adj. mighty. Q. melehta.

belaith

adjective. mighty

An adjective for “mighty” derived from the root √MBELEK in a page of notes having to do with “large & small” words, probably from the late 1960s (PE17/115), apparently from the primitive form ✱✶mbelektā with the ekt vocalizing to eith and then the ei becoming ai in the final syllable.

Cognates

• Q. melehta “mighty” ✧ PE17/115

Derivations

• √MBELEK “mighty, powerful, strong; power as force or strength; great, large” ✧ PE17/115
  • √BEL “*strong, [ᴹ√] strong” ✧ PE17/115

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√mbelek > belaith	[mbelektā] > [mbelekta] > [mbelektʰa] > [mbelexθa] > [belexθa] > [beleiθa] > [beleiθ] > [belaiθ]	✧ PE17/115

bragol

adjective. sudden

bragol

adjective. sudden

alag

rushing

(impetuous), pl. elaig; also alagon (pl. elegyn)

beleg

mighty

(great), lenited veleg, pl. belig

bragol

sudden

(lenited vragol), pl. bragoel. Archaic ✱bragaul.

braig

fierce

(wild), lenited vraig. No distinct pl. form. (VT45:34)

breged

suddenness

(i vreged) (violence), pl. bregid (i mregid) if there is a pl. Note: the word is also used as adv. "suddenly".

brêg

sudden

(quick, lively), lenited vrêg, pl. brîg.

rimp

rushing

(flying), no distinct pl. form

rinc

sudden move

(twitch, jerk, trick), no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rinc), coll. pl. ringath.

taur

mighty

(also tor-, tar- in compounds) (lofty, high, sublime, noble; vast, masterful, overwhelming, huge, awful), lenited daur, pl. toer. Note: homophones mean ”king (of a people)” and also ”great wood, forest”.

alak

root. rushing, rushing, [ᴹ√] swift

A root whose most notable derivatives are Q. alqua, S. alph “swan”. The earliest iteration of this root was ᴱ√ḶKḶ from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/30); the other derivatives of this root from this period have to do with “appearance” such as ᴱQ. ilk- “to seem” (QL/42). By The Etymologies of the 1930s this root took on its later form, ᴹ√ALAK and had the gloss “rushing” with other derivatives like ᴹQ. alako “rush, rushing flight, wild wind”, N. alag “rushing, impetuous” and N. alagos “storm (of wind)” (Ety/ÁLAK). It was also an element in the name of S./N. Ancalagon “Biting Storm”. Given the continued appearance of this name of The Silmarillion (S/252), the 1930s meaning of this root may have survived, but it is hard to be certain since the name was only properly translated in the 1930s.

The 1930s root also had an unaugmented variant ᴹ√LAK with derivatives ᴹQ. (a)larka, N. lhagr “swift, rapid” (Ety/LAK²). Whether this unaugmented variant remained valid is unclear, but there is nothing in Tolkien’s later writing contradicting it either.

Derivatives

• ✶alkwā “swan” ✧ PE18/100
  • Q. alqua “swan” ✧ NM/378; PE18/100; UT/265; VT42/07
  • S. alph “swan” ✧ NM/378; VT42/07
  • At. alpa “swan” ✧ VT42/07
  • T. alpa “swan” ✧ UT/265
  • S. alph “swan” ✧ UT/265
• Q. alqua “swan” ✧ SA/alqua
• S. alph “swan” ✧ SA/alqua

Element in

• S. Ancalagon “Biting-Storm” ✧ SA/alqua

Variations

• alak- ✧ SA/alqua

asgar

adjective. violent, rushing, impetuous

@@@ ascar may be alternate form

Cognates

• Ilk. ascar “violent, rushing, impetuous” ✧ Ety/SKAR

Derivations

• ᴹ✶askarā “tearing, hastening” ✧ Ety/SKAR
  • ᴹ√SKAR “tear, rend” ✧ Ety/SKAR

Element in

• S. Ascar “rushing, impetuous”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶askarā > ascar > asgar	[askarā] > [askara] > [askar] > [asgar]	✧ Ety/SKAR

ascar

adjective. violent, rushing, impetuous

ascar

adjective. violent, rushing, impetuous

asgar

adjective. violent, rushing, impetuous

bregol

adjective. violent, sudden, fierce

bregol

adjective. violent, sudden, *fierce

Cognates

• ᴹQ. verka “wild” ✧ Ety/BERÉK

Derivations

• ᴹ✶berékā “wild” ✧ Ety/BERÉK
  • ᴹ√BEREK “*sudden, fierce” ✧ Ety/BERÉK
• ᴹ√MEREK ✧ Ety/MERÉK; EtyAC/MERÉK

Element in

• N. Bregalad “Quickbeam”
• N. bregolas “fierceness, fierceness, ferocity” ✧ Ety/BERÉK; EtyAC/MERÉK (Bregolas*)

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶berékā > bregol	[berékāla] > [brekāla] > [brekǭla] > [brekoula] > [brekaula] > [brekaul] > [bregaul] > [bregol]	✧ Ety/BERÉK
ᴹ√MERÉK > bregol	[merékāla] > [mrekāla] > [brekāla] > [brekǭla] > [brekoula] > [brekaula] > [brekaul] > [bregaul] > [bregol]	✧ Ety/MERÉK

alag

adjective. rushing, impetuous

taur

adjective. mighty, vast, overwhelming, huge, awful, high, sublime