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1 interjection "there, look! yon yonder" EN, VT45:12 2, also ena, adv. “still”; quetir en “they still say” PE17:167 3 particle that may be inserted before a past tense form to indicate that it refers to a remote past VT45:12, apparently twice attested in Fíriel's Song LR:72, e.g. en cárë "k" "made" long ago. This particle may have been obsoleted by en “still” from a later source.

"k"adj. "alive" LT1:257; Tolkien's later Quenya also has cuina, though coina may still be a valid word: properly, the root of words for “life” is coi- rather than cui-, the latter referring to “awakening” instead

adv. “further still beyond, far away beyond” PE17:91

1 vb. "make, do, build, form" 1st pers. aorist carin "I make, build"; the aorist is listed with all pronominal endings in VT49:16, also in pl. and dual forms carir, carit. Regarding the form carize- PE17:128, see -s \#1. Pa.t. carnë KAR, PE17:74, 144. The infinitival aorist stem carë "k" by Patrick Wynne called a “general aorist infinitive” in VT49:34 occurs in ecë nin carë sa “I can do it” VT49:34, also in áva carë "don't do it" WJ:371 and uin carë PE17:68; in the last example Tolkien calls carë an example of the “simplest aorist infinitive”, the same source referring to carië as the “general infinitive” of the same verb. Pl. aorist carir "form" in the phrase i carir quettar “k” "those who form words" WJ:391, cf. VT49:16, continuative cára, future caruva PE17:144, carita "k", infinitive/gerund "to do" or "doing" VT42:33, with suffixes caritas "to do it" or "doing it", caritalyas "your doing it" in VT41:13,17, VT42:33. Past participle \#carna, q.v.; VT43:15 also gives the long form carina "k", read perhaps *cárina. Carima as a passive participle may be a mistake, VT43:15. PE17:68 refers to a “simple past passive participle” of the form carinwa “kari-nwa”. “Rare” past participle active ? cárienwa “k” *”having done” PE17:68, unless this is also a kind of passive participle the wording of the source is unclear. Some alternative forms in Fíriel's Song: past tense cárë "káre" "made"; this may still be an alternative to the better-attested form carnë LR:362 even in LotR-style Quenya. Cf. ohtacárë “war-made”, made war see \#ohtacar-. Also *cárië with various suffixes: cárier "kárier" is translated "they made"; in LotR-style Quenya this could be seen as an augmentless perfect, hence *"they have made", "they" being simply the plural ending -r. The literal meaning of cárielto "k" must also be *"they made" cf. -lto. – Derived adjectives urcárima and urcarnë “hard to make / do”, urucarin “made with difficulty” PE17:154, saucarya “evil-doing” PE17:68. 2 prep. "with" carelyë "with thee", prepositional element evidently an ephemeral form abandoned by Tolkien VT43:29

"k"noun "row of spikes or teeth" LT2:344 - Tolkien's later Quenya has carcanë read ?carcarë, but these words, especially carcassë, may still be valid

"k"noun "row of spikes or teeth" LT2:344 - Tolkien's later Quenya has carcanë read ?carcarë, but these words, especially carcassë, may still be valid

adv. "ever, continually" BOR, Narqelion Compare vor. Focusing on the gloss "continually", post-Tolkien writers have sometimes used voro for "still, yet", but for this sense the term en is available. The variants vora, vorë were used for "always" in drafts for a Quenya version of the Sub Tuum Praesidium, but Tolkien eventually replaced such forms with the unrelated word illumë VT44:9. Compare vórë, vórëa.

adv. "ever" BOR, LT1:250, 273 only voro in the Etymologies; also in Narqelion adv. "ever, continually" BOR, Narqelion Compare vor. Focusing on the gloss "continually", post-Tolkien writers have sometimes used voro for "still, yet", but for this sense the term en is available. The variants vora, vorë were used for "always" in drafts for a Quenya version of the Sub Tuum Praesidium, but Tolkien eventually replaced such forms with the unrelated word illumë VT44:9. Compare vórë, vórëa.

1 noun "mummy", hypocoristic form of "mother", also used in children's play for "index finger" and "index toe" VT47:10, 26, VT48:4, 6, 17, 19. Also emya. 2 pron. "we", emphatic pronoun; dative emmen VT43:12, 20. In the source this pronoun is intended as the 1st person plural exclusive; later Tolkien changed the corresponding pronominal ending from -mmë to -lmë, and the plural emphatic pronoun would likewise change from emmë to *elmë. Since the ending -mmë was redefined as a dual exclusive pronoun, the form emmë may still be valid as such, as a dual emphatic pronoun "we" = "she and I".

fem. name "the Sublime", name of a Valië, spouse of Manwë, the Queen of the Valar, called Elbereth in Sindarin BARATH, BARÁD, WJ:402; in Letters:282 Varda is translated the "Lofty". As a general adjective “sublime”, †varda could still occur as a poetic word in verse PE17:23, but normal prose would apparently rather use the related word varanda q.v. Genitive Vardo for *Vardao. Nam, RGEO:66. Vardamir masc. name, *"Varda-jewel" Appendix A, UT:210; vardarianna ?"Varda-gift", name of a tree but the ri element is obscure UT:167

"to slumber" LT1:259; the corresponding abstract noun lórë "slumber" is attested in Tolkien's later Quenya, so this verb must still be valid. Cf. also lor "dream" Letters:308; probably just an Elvish "element" rather than a complete word

adj. “quiet, hushed, still” QL:78

pronominal element "you", originally the "reverential 2nd person sing" RGEO:73, VT49:56. However, singular le was apparently altered to lye q.v., and le took on a plural significance le for pl. “you” is apparently derived from de, the ancient 2nd person pl. stem, VT49:50-51. Stressed lé VT49:51, dual let *“the two of you” ibid.. At certain points in Tolkien’s conception, le was still sg. “thou” rather than pl. “you”. It is attested as an ending in the imperative form antalë *"give thou" VT43:17; see anta-. The form ólë in VT43:29 apparently means *"with thee"; according to Tolkien’s later system, it would rather mean “with you” pl. Compare aselyë “with thee” sg. in a later source see as.

1 adj. “excelling”, used as the comparative form of mára “good”, hence *“better” PE17:57. The superlative *“best” is i arya with the article, with genitive to express *“the best of…” Cf. mára. 3 noun "twelve hours, day" ARsup1/sup; compare aurë. In deleted notes this word was also used as an adjective: "of the day, light" VT45:6. Still according to VT45:6, arya is also the name of Tengwa \#26 in the pre-classical Tengwar system presupposed in the Etymologies, but Tolkien would later call \#26 arda instead indeed arya was changed from arda in the source; Tolkien would later change his mind back again. The abandoned name arya suggests that the letter was to have the value ry rather than rd as in the classical system outlined in LotR Appendix E. – Since the word for “day” daylight period is given as aurë in later sources, and arya is assigned other meanings in late material see \#1, 2 above, the conceptual validity of arya “day” is questionable.%

2 intensive or superlative prefix carrying the idea of "very" or "most", seen in ancalima "most bright" cf. calima "bright", antara "very high, very lofty" and \#anyára *"very old" or *"oldest" the latter form occurring in the so-called Elaine inscription VT49:40, there with the dative ending -n. Assimilated to am- before p-, as in amparca "k" "very dry", and to al-, ar-, as- before words in l-, r-, s- though Tolkien seems to indicate that before words in l- derived from earlier d, the original quality of the consonant would be preserved so that forms in and- rather than all- would result. See also un-. Letters:279, VT45:5, 36 Regarding the form of the superlative prefix before certain consonants, another, partially discrepant system was also set down in the Etymologies and first published in VT45:36. The prefix was to appear as um- or un- before labialized consonants like p-, qu-, v- the consonant v preserving its ancient pronunciation b- following the prefix, thus producing a word in umb-, as in- technically iñ- before c- and g- the latter presumably referring to words that originally had initial g-, later lost in Quenya but evidently preserved following this prefix, and as an- otherwise. However, this system would contradict the canonical example ancalima, which would have been *incalima if Tolkien had maintained this idea. – In a post-LotR source, the basic form of the prefix is given as am- instead see am- \#2. In this late conception, the prefix still appears as an- before most consonants, but as ama- before r, l, and the form an- is used even before s- whether original or from þ, not the assimilated variant as- described above. General principles would suggest that the form am- should also appear before y- so the form \#anyára probably presupposes an- rather than am- as the basic form of the prefix, Tolkien revisiting the earlier concept in the Elaine inscription. PE17:92 3 prefix "re" in antúlien, q.v. LotR-style Quenya shows en- instead.

noun "stone" LT2:342, LT1:254 – probably only ondo in LotR-style Quenya, see below. Various "Qenya" forms: ondoli "rocks" MC:213; this would be a partitive plural in LotR-style Quenya, ondolin "rocks" MC:220, ondoisen "upon rocks" MC:221, ondolissen "rocks-on" MC:214; the latter form, partitive plural locative, is still valid in LotR-style Quenya.

noun "stone" LT2:342, LT1:254 – probably only ondo in LotR-style Quenya, see below. Various "Qenya" forms: ondoli "rocks" MC:213; this would be a partitive plural in LotR-style Quenya, ondolin "rocks" MC:220, ondoisen "upon rocks" MC:221, ondolissen "rocks-on" MC:214; the latter form, partitive plural locative, is still valid in LotR-style Quenya. noun "stone" as a material, also "rock" UT:459, GOND. Pl. ondor in an earlier variant of Markirya; partitive pl. locative ondolissë "on rocks" in the final version. Compounded in ondomaitar “sculptor in stone” PE17:163, Ondoher masc.name, *"Stone-lord" ondo alluding to Ondonórë = Sindarin Gondor, "stone-land" Appendix A, \#ondolunca “k” “stonewain”, possessive form in the place-name Nand’ Ondoluncava “Stonewain Valley” PE17:28, also Ondoluncanando as a compound. Ondolindë place-name "Gondolin" SA:gond, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator p. 193; see Ondo. Earlier "Qenya" has Ondolinda changed from Ondolin "singing stone, Gondolin" LT1:254

cardinal "one, alone" ERE, VT48:6, VT49:54, in an early source also adv. "only, but, still" LT1:269; Eru er "one God" VT44:17; er was here emended by Tolkien from erëa, which seems to be an adjectival form *"one, single".

adj. “yellow, of golden colour” PE17:51, variant of malina. An earlier source the Etymologies, entry SMAL has malda as the noun “gold” – but LotR gives malta, q.v., and according to VT46:14 the form malta originally appeared in the Etymologies as well. Since Quenya sometimes uses adjectives as nouns see for instance fanya, malda could still be regarded as a valid side-form of the noun malta “gold”.

noun original adj. "speech" PM:399; the language-name Quenya is said to mean properly "language, speech" WJ:393; cf. the phrase coirëa quenya "living speech" PM:399.However, Quenya archaic Quendya, still so in Vanyarin is also interpreted "Elvish" Letters:176, sc. the adjective corresponding to Quendi WJ:374, but it was no longer used as a general adjective. Quenya lambë"Quenya tongue" WJ:407. The command queta Quenya! “speak Quenya!” was used in the sense of “speak precisely and intelligibly, put into actual words” instead of using hand signs or looks; the word Quenya is here used adverbially PE17:138. The variant queta quenyāPE17:137 appears to use the distinct accusative formed by lengthening a final vowel known from ”Book Quenya”.