14.74 Winter S. rhîw n. “winter” The Sindarin word for “winter”, equivalent to Q. hrívë, as well as the Sindarin name of the corresponding 72 day period in the calendar of Imladris (LotR/1107; PM/135). Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had various other “winter” words: G. folornin based
Select Elvish Words: 14.74-14.77 Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn (Quenya)
14.74 Winter Q. hrívë n. “winter” The Quenya word for “winter”, both casually as well as a specific 72 day period in the the calendar of Imladris (LotR/1107, 1111). Conceptual Development: This word also appeared in drafts of The Lord of the Rings appendices along with a variant ᴹQ. Fírien
Select Elvish Words: 14.73 Year
14.73 Year Q. coranar (coranár-) n. “[sidereal] year, (lit.) sun-round” A word for a “year” in The Lord of the Rings appendices, a combination of √KOR “round” and Anar “Sun” so more literally “sun-round” (LotR/1107). Its plural form coranári appeared in drafts to the appendices, giving it a stem form
Select Elvish Words: 14.71-14.72 Month (Sindarin)
14.71 Month G. ranoth n. “ranoth” A word appearing as G. ranoth “month” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s based on G. Rân “Moon” (GL/64). Neo-Sindarin: Since similarly formed S. Raun < ✶rānā is still “Moon” in Tolkien’s later iterations of the language, I would retain ᴺS. ranoth “month”
Select Elvish Words: 14.71-14.72 Month (Quenya)
14.71 Month Q. asta n. “month; division, part (esp. one of other equal parts)” A word appearing in its plural form astar “months” in The Lord of the Rings appendices (LotR/1108). In notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s Tolkien connected asta “month” to árë “sunlight” < ✶áse (PE17/18).
Select Elvish Words: 14.61-14.68 Week, Days of the Week (Sindarin)
14.61 Week G. ochlad n. “week” The word for “week” in Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s was G. ochlad. It is related to the word G. odin “seven” and derived from ᴱ✶ot·g’lāta (GL/62), though its exact phonetic development is obscure. Roman Rausch speculated (HPG/2.6) that the [tgl] somehow became [ɣl]
Select Elvish Words: 14.61-14.68 Week, Days of the Week (Quenya)
14.61 Week Q. enquië n. “Elvish week of six days” Name of the Elvish six-day week (LotR/1107; PE17/119), an abstract noun based on enquë “six”. Númenóreans had a seven-day, with an extra day Eärenya inserted in the middle. Using the days Anarya “Sunday” and Isilya “Moonday” [Monday], this can be
Select Elvish Words: 14.47-14.49 Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday
14.47 Today Q. síra n. and adv. “*this day, today” A word for “*this day, today” appearing in the phrase ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma “give us this day our daily bread” from later versions of the Átaremma prayer composed in the mid-1950s (VT43/12). The etymology of síra is unclear,
Select Elvish Words: 14.462 Dusk
14.462 Dusk Q. andúnë n. “sunset, (orig.) going down; west; ⚠️evening” The usual Quenya word for “sunset”, derived from primitive ✶ṇdūnē and based on the root √NDU “down”, so originally meaning “going down” (LotR/1116; PE17/64; PE19/77; Ety/NDŪ). It is often used to mean “west”, but generally as Q. Andúnë “The
Select Elvish Words: 14.44-14.46 Morning, Noon, Evening
14.44 Morning Q. †amaurëa adj. “dawn, early day, morning” A word appearing in the first draft of the 1960s version of the Markirya poem in the phrase métima amaurëasse “in the last morning” (MC/222), apparently a combination of am- “up” and an adjectival form of aurë “day”. In the glossary