13.33 Alone, Only Q. er adj. and adv. “one, alone; ⚠️[ᴱQ.] only, a single” The Quenya word for “one, alone” used for isolated or unique things and derived from the root √ER (PE23/142; Ety/ERE). This is contrasted min “one” used when counting: min, atta, neldë, etc. (VT48/6). Conceptual Development: The
Select Elvish Words: 13.32 One
13.32 One ᴱQ. ellume n. “once, one time” A word appearing as ᴱQ. ellume “*one time” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s, a combination of ᴱQ. er “one” and ᴱQ. -llume “times” (PE14/51, 84). This document had an alternate ᴱQ. eru “once” as an adverbial form of er,
Select Elvish Words: 13.25 Fraction, Division
13.25 Fraction, Division Q. caista n. “one tenth” A word appearing as kaista or kast “1/10” in notes on numbers from the late 1960s, a combination of √KAYAN “ten” with the fractional suffix -sta. Neo-Quenya: Since I prefer quëan for “ten”, I would use ᴺQ. quaista “one tenth” for purposes
Select Elvish Words: 13.24 Half
13.24 Half Q. per- pref. “half-, [ᴹQ.] semi-” A prefix for “half-” implied by names like Pereldar “Half-elven” (Let/386), clearly based on the root √PER of the same meaning (PE17/173). It may also mean “semi-” as in ᴹQ. Perómandar “semivocalic” (PE18/30). Q. peresta n. “one half” A word appearing as
Select Elvish Words: 13.22 Empty
13.22 Empty ᴹQ. kúma n. “void” A word for “void, darkness”, perhaps first appearing in Ambarkanta from the early 1930s (SM/241). The Etymologies from around 1937 had ᴹQ. kúma “void” under the root ᴹ√KUM of the same meaning (Ety/KUM). It was an element in ᴹQ. Avakúma “Exterior Void”, the darkness
Select Elvish Words: 13.21 Full
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
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,