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I: SELECTED QUENYA VOCABULARY
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PEOPLE: Quend "Elf" (but this is a technical word usually replaced by Elda, which strictly refers to the
non-Avari Elves only), Atan "(Mortal) Man" (but this term came to be primarily associated with the
Three Houses of the Edain), Firya and Frima "Mortal", Nauco "Dwarf" (also Casar, from Dwarvish
Khazd), Picinauco or Pityanauco "Petty-dwarf", Orco or Urco "Orc". General terms (presumably)
applicable to all races: qun "person" (pl. queni), nr "man" (pl. neri; cf. also vo or vaner = "adult
man"), ns or niss "woman" (pl. nissi), hna "child", laps "babe", seldo *"boy" (?), wend later vend
"maiden, girl". A "people" as a whole is called a li (hence Eldali = the people of the Elves).
THE FAMILY: verno "husband", vess "wife", indis "bride" (sometimes used for "wife"), atar "father"
(atto = *"dad"), amil or amm "mother" (mamil = *"mom"), yondo "son", yeld "daughter" (changed to
yend in the Etymologies, but later material may suggest that Tolkien restored yeld), toron "brother"
(pl. torni), onn or seler "sister" (pl. selli), indyo "grandchild, descendant", onna "twin" (pl. noni).
Besides the word for "brother" listed above, there is also otorno "sworn brother, associate" (the fem. form
would seem to be osell, glossed "sister, associate").
ANIMALS: General word celva "moving animal", cf. also laman (used of four-footed animals, not of
insects or reptiles), andamunda "elephant", huo "dog" (ronyo "hound of chase"), hyalma "shell, conch"
(at least technically an animal and not a plant!), leuca "snake" (also ango pl. angwi), lingw "fish" (hala
"small fish"), lk "worm, dragon" (also longer angulk; cf. also rmalk "winged dragon", urulk
"fire-dragon", lingwilk "sea-serpent"), mma "sheep", morco "bear", mundo "ox" (this word may also
mean "snout"), *nyaro "rat" (misreading "nyano" in LR:379), r "lion" (pl. rvi), rca and narmo
"wolf" (nauro "werewolf"), rocco "horse", rusco "fox", wilwarin "butterfly". Early material has moi
"cat", but this word looks weird in mature Quenya (no other singulars in -oi). An early source also has
nion or nier for "bee", noldar or nolpa for "mole" and yax (or yaxi) for "cow". Birds: aiw or filit
"(small) bird" (pl. filici), alqua "swan", ammal a yellow bird or "yellow hammer", cu or cua "dove",
halatir or halatirno "kingfisher", lindo "singer" (singing bird), lmelind "nightingale" (kenning
tindmerel = Sindarin tinviel), maiw "gull", soron or sorn "eagle", tambaro "woodpecker", tuilindo
"swallow", quco "crow" (also corco).
PLANTS: olva "plant", uil "long trailing plant, especially sea-weed" (which is explicitly aruil),
salqu "grass", sara "stiff dry grass", lass "leaf", olwa "branch", tussa "bush", hwan "sponge, fungus",
lt "flower", loss "blossom" (usually white), nieninqu "snowdrop", asa aranion "athelas, kingsfoil".
Trees: alda "tree", orn "tree" (smaller and more slender like a birch or rowan), alalm "elm-tree", feren
"beech-tree", ercass "holly", malinorn "mallorn", norno "oak", tasar or tasar "willow", tyuluss
"poplar-tree". (See also David Salo's Botany, covering Tolkien's earliest "Qenya".)
METALS, SUBSTANCES, ELEMENTS: erma, orma and hroa "(physical) matter", tinco or rauta
"metal", malta "gold" (also poetic cullo "red gold"), telp or tyelp "silver", anga "iron", cemen "earth,
soil", nn "water", nr "flame, fire", vilya, wilma or wista "air", loss "snow", helc "ice", lits "sand",
asto "dust", ondo "stone" (as material, but also used = rock), ross "dew", hrv "flesh", serc "blood"
(also yr), hyell "glass", t "wool", fall "foam".
BODY-PARTS: cr "head", lox or find "hair" (the term for a head of hair is findess), anta "face",
hn "eye" (pl. hendi, or dual hendu), lr "pair of ears", nengw "nose", anto "mouth", p "lip" (so
according to a late source; in the Etymologies, the gloss was "mouth"), nelet "tooth" (pl. nelci), lamba
"tongue" (but "tongue" = language is lamb), fanga "beard", lanco "throat", yat (yaht-) "neck", hn
"(physical) heart" (indo = symbolic heart), ranco "arm" (pl. ranqui), m "hand", camb "hollow of
hand", qur "fist", leps "finger", tiuco "thigh", telco "leg" (pl. telqui), tl "foot", tallun "sole of
foot", axo "bone". Early material also has lem "elbow" and aldamo "back". The word for the entire
body is hroa (also used = "physical matter"). Somewhere there may be a sealed envelope containing a
piece of paper with the Elvish designations of the genitals, furtively set down by Tolkien behind locked
doors.
SOME TITLES AND PROFESSIONS: aran "king", tri "queen", cundu "prince", aranel "princess",
heru "lord", heri "lady", arquen "a noble", aryon or haryon "heir", roquen "knight", cno
"commander", tercno "herald", istyar "scholar", sairon "wizard" (but Gandalf was an istar), inglemo
"sage", lambengolmo "loremaster of tongues" (linguist), tano "craftsman, smith", quentaro "narrator",
samno "carpenter, wright, builder", tyaro "doer, actor, agent", cemnaro or centano "potter". (See the
heading War and Weaponry for "warrior" and "spearman".)
FOOD: apsa "cooked food, meat", masta "bread", sva "juice", pirya "juice, syrup", ls "honey" (liss-),
yv "fruit", por "flour, meal", culuma "orange", sulca "edible root", coimas "lembas", miruvr a
drink poured out at festivals in Valinor (translated "mead" in Namri), limp "wine, drink of the Valar".
Early material also gives sulpa "soup", pio "plum, cherry", piucca "berry" (or specifically "blackberry")
and tyuru "cheese".
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: nr "land", nri "country", arda "realm, a particular land or region", mna
"region", men "place, spot", rna "border", peler "fenced field", panda "enclosure", oron "mountain"
(pl. oronti), rass and tild "peak, horn", ambo "hill", cilya "cleft", nand "valley", tumbo "deep valley,
under or among hills", yw "ravine, cleft, gulf", pend "slope, declivity", mall "way, street" (pl.
maller), ti "path", taur "great wood, forest", ehtel "spring, issue of water", ailin "pool, lake" (also
linya), ring "cold pool or lake (in mountains)", sr "river", nell "brook", hpa "haven", hresta or
hyapat "shore", falass "beach", ar "sea", celma "channel", tol "island" (pl. tolli; "tolle" in LR:394 is
evidently a misreading), lna "island, remote land". Directions: Formen "North", Hyarmen "South",
Nmen "West", Rmen "East".
WEATHER: mist "fine rain", fanya "cloud", lumbo "(dark, lowering) cloud", sr and vaiwa "wind",
r "sunlight", hs and hsi "mist", raumo "(noise of a) storm", nix "frost". Early material has lr
"dark weather" and the corresponding adjective lra "dark, overcast".
CELESTIAL OBJECTS: Anar "Sun" (also called Naira and Vsa), Isil "Moon" (also called Rna), elen
(poetic l) "star" (also tinw and nill, sometimes with certain specialized meanings), tingily or
tingilind "twinkling star". Planets: Erendil "Venus", Carnil "Mars", Alcarinqu "Jupiter" (and more
tentatively Nnar "Neptune", Luinil "Uranus" and Lumbar "Saturn"). Constellations: Telumehtar or
Menelmacar "Swordsman of the Sky" = Orion, Valacirca "Sickle of the Valar" = Big Dipper (Great
Bear), Wilwarin "Butterfly" = Cassiopeia (?). A few other constellations are named but are difficult to
identify. General word for "sky, the heavens": menel (also hell). Cf. also fanyar "upper airs and skies".
MUSIC, POETRY, INSTRUMENTS, MUSICIANS: lindal or lindel "music", lr "song", lair
"poem" (not to be confused with a homophone meaning "summer"), naini "a lament", verb lir- "sing,
chant", verb nanda- "to harp", noun nand "harp" (nandell "little harp"), nandaro "harper", nyello
"singer" (also lindo, but this is also used of birds), nyell "bell". Early material also has salma "lyre".
WAR AND WEAPONRY: ohta "war", verb ohtacar- "make war", verb mahta- "wield a weapon, fight",
ohtar, ohtatyaro and mahtar "warrior", ehtyar "spearman", cotumo "enemy", macil "sword", lango
"broad sword", ecet "small broad-bladed sword", sicil "dagger, knife", quinga "bow" (also c), pilin
"arrow" (pl. pilindi), neht "spear-head", eht or ecco "spear", turma "shield", cassa or carma "helmet".
Early material has hoss "army".
ARCHITECTURE: ataqu "construction, building", coa "house" (also car, card-), ampano "building,
wooden hall", ando "gate" (andon "great gate"), fenda "threshold", samb "room, chamber", caimasan
"bed-chamber" (pl. caimasambi), tpa "roof", talan "floor" (pl. talami), ramba "wall", mindo
"(isolated) tower" (mindon "great tower"), osto "city, town with wall round", opel "walled house or
village, town", hrta "dwelling underground, artifical cave or rockhewn hall", telma "the last item in a
structure" (such as a coping-stone, or a topmost pinnacle).
TIME: l "a time, occasion", lm "time, hour", vanwi "the past", yr "former days", yalm "former
times", aur "day" (also ar), lm "night" (but sometimes used = "twilight"; other terms for "night"
include l, mr and Hui/Fui), ra "dawn", arin "morning", ari "daytime", siny "evening", tindm
and undm "twilight" (near dawn and near evening, respectively), anarr "sunrise", nro or andn
"sunset", asta "month", loa "year" (astronomically speaking called coranar "sun-round"), yn "long
year" (Elvish "century" of 144 solar years), randa "cycle, age". Seasons: coir "stirring" (early spring),
tuil *"budding" (late spring), lair "summer" (not to be confused with a word meaning "poem", see
above), yvi "harvest" (early autumn), quell "fading" (late autumn), hrv "winter". For "autumn", the
words lasselanta "leaf-fall" and lassewinta *"leaf-scattering" were also used. Months: Narviny
"January", Nnim "February", Slim "March", Vress "April", Ltess "May", Nri "June", Cermi
"July", rim "August", Yavanni "September", Narqueli "October", Hsim "November", Ringar
"December".
NUMBERS: min 1, atta 2, neld 3, canta 4, lemp 5, enqu 6, otso 7, tolto 8, nert 9, cainen 10,
minqu 11. For 12 only the stem RSAT is given, but it is generally agreed that the Quenya word must be
*rasta. Higher numbers are uncertain. The word harany, the last year in a century, may literally mean
"hundredth one", pointing to *haranya as the word for "hundredth" and perhaps *haran (*harna?) as the
word for "hundred". Sindarin host means "gross", 144, the first three-digit number in Elvish duodecimal
counting, but the Quenya cognate hosta is simply defined as "large number".
COLOURS: carn "red", culuina "orange" (adj. only - the fruit is called culuma!), fna or fn "white"
(as clouds), helwa "pale blue", laiqua "green", laura "golden", loss "snow-white" (also noun "snow"),
luin "blue", malina "yellow", mor or morna "black", ninqu "white", silma "silver, shining white",
sind (or sinda) "grey", varn "swart, (dark) brown". The Vanyar also used some colour-words adopted
from Valarin: ezel or ezella "green", nasar "red", ulban "blue", tulca "yellow". These were apparently
not in use among the Noldor.
SOME COMMON ADJECTIVES: vanya or vanima "beautiful, fair" (also linda), mra "useful, good"
(of things), raica "wrong, crooked", ulca or ma "evil", halla "tall", anda "long", sinta "short", alta
"great" (in size), ra "large", va "very large, abundant", titta "tiny", pitya *"small", parca "dry", mixa
"wet", arca "narrow", nind "slender" (also teren), tiuca "thick, fat", lunga "heavy", liss "sweet", sra
"bitter", quanta "full", lusta "empty", lauca "warm", ringa (or ring) "cold", forya "right", hyarya
"left", vinya "new" (also sinya), yerna "old, worn" (of things), nessa "young", linyenwa "old" (lit.
"having many years"; this word did not connote weakness, since the Elves were immortal), cuina "alive",
coira "living", qualin "dead" (but firin with reference to the natural death of mortals).
SOME COMMON VERBS: car- "make, do", harya- "possess, *have", cen- "see", hlar- "hear", ista-
"know" (pa.t. sint), lelya- "go" (past tense lend), mat- "eat", mer- "wish, desire, want", mta- "labour,
toil", tul- "come", quet- "speak", hir- "find", anta- "give", mel- "love" (as friend), sil- "shine".
PREPOSITIONS: amba, ama "up, upwards", an "for, to", ana "to, towards" (also na), apa "after", ara
"outside, beside", arta "across" (only attested in early material), arwa "having, *with" (followed by
genitive), enga "save [= *except]", et "out of" (followed by ablative), hequa "except", ho "from" (the
speaker's point of view being outside the thing left), imb "between", mi "in" (m "in the"), mir or minna
"into", na "to, towards" (also ana), nu "under" (also no), undu "down, under, beneath", or "over", ter,
ter "through", ve "as, like", yo *"with" (?). We especially miss a word for "before".
Flowers
ailinon: water-lily (fam. Nymphaeaceae)
fumella: poppy (Papaver sp.); fmello valinrea: large poppy (Papaver sp.); kamillo fmelot: poppy
(Papaver sp.)
helilokte: wisteria, 'purple cluster' (Wisteria sp.)
helin: pansy (Viola tricolor)
helinille: violet (Viola sp.)
kamillo: large poppy (Papaver sp.)
kamilot: red clover (Trifolium sp.)
kampilosse: the wild rose (Rosa sp.)
kankale-malina: daffodil, 'yellow laughter' (Narcissus sp.)
losse or losille: rose (Rosa sp.)
narwe: sweet lily (Lilium sp.)
nnu: yellow water-lily
nieninqe: snowdrop 'white tear' (Galanthus nivalis)
qinqenna: Solomon's seal (Polygonatum sp.)
qiqilla: lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis)
Trees
aiqaire: fir or pine; also ske (Abies sp. or Pinus sp.)
alalme: elm-tree (Ulmus sp.)
ektar: thorn or hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)
hre: pine, stone pine (Pinus sp.)
kottule or kotulwe: hazel (Corylus sp.)
lindelokte: laburnum, 'singing-cluster' (Laburnum sp.)
mapalin: plane or sycamore (Platanus sp. or Acer pseudoplatanus)
mapalin varivoite: foreign mapalin, plane
mapalin fatsevoite: tasselled mapalin, plane
mapalin rmavoite: winged mapalin, sycamore
mapalin tarukka: horned mapalin, sycamore
mapalin wilwarinda: butterfly-like mapalin, sycamore
marinne or marinde: a fruit tree
mavoisi or alda mavoite: the chestnut-tree (Castanea sp.)
mavoisi tapatenda: the Spanish chestnut (Castanea sativa)
neldor or neldorin: the beech-tree (Fagus sp.)
nor or norne: the oak-tree (Quercus sp.)
palapapte: plane or sycamore, mapalin (Platanus sp. or Acer pseudoplatanus)
pinektar or pipinektar: hawthorn or whitethorn (Crataegus sp.)
piosenna: the holly-tree (Ilex sp.)
silqelni: the silver birch, the long-tressed lady (Betula sp.)
silwin: the birch-tree (Betula sp.)
siqilisse: weeping-willow (Salix babylonica)
ske: pine or fir, trees bearing resin; also aiqaire (Abies sp. or Pinus sp.)
tamuril: yew-tree (Taxus sp.)
tarasse: hawthorn (Crataegus sp.); cf. ektar and pinektar tasarin: willow-tree (Salix sp.)
tyulusse: poplar (Populus sp.)
ulwe or uluswe: the alder (Alnus sp.)
vine or vinne: any conifer
Fruits and Berries
aipio: cherry (ai-pio 'holy berry') (Prunus sp.)
kampin: hips, the berries of the wild rose (Rosa sp.)
kolosta: cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
kulmarin: ?orange (Citrus sp.)
marin: fruits like the apple, with firm pulp and many seeds (Malus sp.)
melpo: fruits like a gooseberry, with squashy pulp and many seeds (Ribes sp.)
pio: fruits like cherries and plums, with firm pulp and a single stone (Prunus sp.)
piopin or pipin: haws, the fruit of the hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)
piukka: the blackberry (Rubus sp.)
Other plants
eldasilqe: maidenhair fern, 'elvish tress' (Adiantium sp.)
etl or etil: ivy (Hedera helix)
felpa: seaweed
fen: reed
filqe or filinqe or filimpe: fern (ord. Filicales)
inwetelumbe: mushroom. 'fairy-canopy' (clas. Basidiomycetes)
lne: cotton (thread) (Gossypium sp.)
liske: reeds
orikon: heather (Calluna vulgaris)
orivaine: pea (Pisum sativum)
pole: oats (Avena sativa)
telumbe: mushroom. 'canopy' (clas. Basidiomycetes)
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