13.21 Full Q. ataquanta- v. “*to refill, fill a second time, double fill” A word appearing in notes from 1959 as a combination of at(a)- “double, second time” and quanta- “fill”, but Tolkien translated it as “refall, fall second time, double fall” (PE17/166). Helge Fauskanger suggested the translation should have
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Studies on selected elvish words to sort out their semantics.
Select Elvish Words: 13.192 Other Collective Words
13.192 Other Collective Words Q. heren n. “order” A word for “order” from the phrase Heren Istarion (UT/388), perhaps derived from √KHER “govern”. Q. massë n. “portion, share; capacity, [ᴹQ.] measure; the personal measure or capacity of a man, a talent; [Q.] †handful” A word for “portion, share, capacity” and
Select Elvish Words: 13.19 Crowd, Multitude
13.19 Crowd, Multitude ᴹQ. hosto n. “crowd, assembly” A word for “assembly, crowd” in the Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s with a reduced form hos, host- typically used when inflected (PE21/20, 27). It is probably derived from the root ᴹ√KHOTH “gather” (Ety/KHOTH); compare later N./S. hoth “crowd,
Select Elvish Words: 13.181-13.182 Sufficiency; to Suffice
13.181 Sufficiency ᴹQ. farme n. “sufficiency, plenitude, all that is wanted” A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s initially appearing as fáre “sufficiency, plenitude, all that is wanted” under the root ᴹ√PHAR “reach, go all the way, suffice” (Ety/PHAR). In ink revisions to this entry, the form became farme
Select Elvish Words: 13.18 Enough
13.18 Enough ᴹQ. fárea adj. “enough, sufficient” A word appearing as farea “enough, sufficient” in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed under the root ᴹ√PHAR “reach, go all the way, suffice” (Ety/PHAR). Ink revisions changed the form to fā̆rea (EtyAC/PHAR). In the poem Fíriel’s Song from around this same time,
Select Elvish Words: 13.171-13.172 Some, Several, Any
13.171 Some, Several ᴹQ. uma adj. “some (when the identity is unknown); something or other” A singular indefinite adjective “some” in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/105), also usuable pronominally to mean “something” (PE23/105). This adjective is specifically singular, as in uma elda “some (unknown) Elf”. An
Select Elvish Words: 13.17 Few, Little
13.17 Few, Little ᴱQ. mike adv. “a little, a bit” An adverb for “little” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s with a shorter form mit (PE14/48, 80), also used as a diminutive prefix with variant forms mie and mimīke (PE14/81). In the contemporaneous English-Qenya Dictionary it was translated
Select Elvish Words: 13.165 to Add, Increase
13.165 to Add, Increase Q. napan- vb. “to add” A verb in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957, a combination of the prefix na-¹ “plu-” with pan- (PE17/146) whose root √PAN means “arrange, set in order” (PE17/108), so more literally “*arrange with addition”. ᴱQ. yanta- vb. “to add to, enlarge, increase,
Select Elvish Words: 13.16 More
13.16 More Q. amba adj. and pron. “more” An adjective or (pro)noun for “more” along with an adverbial form ambë derived from √AMA “addition, increase, plus” (PE17/91). These words were part of a (brief?) conceptual framework around 1967 in which the intensive prefix am- was derived from this root. Elsewhere
Select Elvish Words: 13.15 Much, Many (Sindarin)
13.15 Much, Many (Sindarin) N. lhae n. “great number” A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as N. lhae “great number” derived from primitive ᴹ✶lai- which was an a-fortified form of the root ᴹ√LI “many” (EtyAC/LI). Neo-Sindarin: Many Neo-Sindarin writers adapt this word as ᴺS. lae “great number”