12.31 High Q. orro adv. “up in the air, on high” An adverb appearing on a rejected page of roots from the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 glossed “up in the air, on high”, derived from the root ᴹ√SRŌ (PE22/127). Neo-Quenya: Since RŌ/ORO “up” appears regularly in Tolkien’s writings,
Select Elvish Words
Studies on selected elvish words to sort out their semantics.
Select Elvish Words: 12.272 Hidden, Concealed
12.272 Hidden, Concealed Q. cúvima adj. “concealable” A word translated “concealable” appearing in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from in 1969 (PE22/155). Q. cuvo n. “hider” A word for “hider” derived from the root √KUB implied by the noun pekkuvo “squirrel” = “nut-hider”, all of which are from Late
Select Elvish Words: 12.27 to Hide, Conceal
12.27 to Hide, Conceal Q. cuv- v. “to conceal, hide” A verb for “conceal, hide” implied by the adjectives cúvima “concealable” and cuvoitë “hiding, secretive” = “*apt to conceal” derived from √KUB “hide, secrete” appearing in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969 (PE22/155). Q. fanta- v. “to veil,
Select Elvish Words: 12.26 to Cover
12.26 to Cover ᴹQ. telme n. “hood, covering” A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as {telma >>} telme “hood, covering” derived from primitive ᴹ✶telmā̆/ē̆ under the root ᴹ√TEL(U) (Ety/TEL; EtyAC/TEL). Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. telin (telimb-) “roof, covering” under the early
Select Elvish Words 12.25: to Shut, Close
Q. avalatya- v. “to refuse to open” A negation of the verb latya- “to open”, so meaning “*refuse to open”, appearing in etymological notes associated with the Ósanwe-kenta essay from 1959-60 (VT41/5; PE17/159). It was probably a technical term connected to the “barrier of unwill” that one could choose to
Select Elvish Words 12.24: to Open
12.24 to Open Q. láta adj. “open (not closed)” An adjective meaning “open” (= not closed) appearing in the Ósanwe-kenta essay from 1959-60 (VT39/23) and associated etymological notes, where it was derived from √LAT “open, unenclosed, free to entry” (VT41/5; PE17/159). Q. látië n. “openness” A noun for “openness” appearing
Select Elvish Words: 12.23 to Separate
12.23 to Separate Q. sat- vb. “to set aside, appropriate to a special purpose or owner” A verb appearing in notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s based on √SAT “divide, mark off” (VT42/19-20). ᴱQ. silt- vb. “to sift, sort out, winnow” A verb appearing
Select Elvish Words 12.223: Also
12.223 Also Q. epetai conj. “consequently, *therefore; (lit.) following which (fact)” A conjunction translated “consequently” associated with the Ambidexters Sentence as part of the phrase epetai i hyarma ú ten ulca símaryassen “consequently the left hand was not to them evil in their imaginations” (VT49/8). Tolkien analyzed epetai as epe-ta-i
Select Elvish Words 12.222: And
12.222 And Q. ar conj. “and; ⚠️[ᴱQ., ᴹQ.] but” The word ar was the Quenya word for “and” for much of Tolkien’s life. It was related to (and originally identical with) Q. ar(a) “beside” (PE17/70). The word ar was always used between sentences, but in sets of items sometimes yo
Select Elvish Words 12.221: Together
12.221 Together Q. o- pref. “together” A prefix meaning “together” derived from primitive √WO (WJ/367). The modern Quenya form of the prefix is the result of the sound change whereby “unstressed wo was often reduced to o with loss of w” (PE19/106). Note that “when stressed the [primitive] sequence wo