Quettaparma Quenyallo

linta adj. "swift"; pl. lintë attested (PE17:63. Nam, RGEO:66) Cf. lintië.

lintië noun “swiftness, speed” derived from linta; also used as adverb “quickly”, nornë lintië “he ran with swiftness”, also more explicitly with pronominal suffixes and the instrumental ending -nen: lintieryanen “with his speed” (PE17:58)

lintitinwë adj. "having many stars" (LT1:269)

lintulinda, lintulindova *"many-???", *"swift-???" (Narqelion)

lintyulussëa adj. "having many poplars" (LI)

linya noun "pool" (LIN¹)

linyenwa adj. "old, having many years" (YEN)

-lion ending for partitive pl. genitive (Plotz); see -li

lipil noun "little glass" (LT1:258)

lipsa noun "soap" (LIB²)

liptë- vb. "to drip" (LT1:258; rather *lipta- in Tolkien's later Quenya?)

liquin ("q") adj. "wet" (LT1:262; Tolkien's later Quenya has linquë.)

liquis ("q") noun "transparence" (LT1:262)

-lin ending for partitive pl. dative (Plotz); see -li

-linna or -linnar ending for partitive pl. allative (Plotz); see -li

lir- vb. "to chant" (1st pers. aorist lirin "I chant, I sing") (LIR¹, GLIR)

lir' ??? (Narqelion)

lírë noun "song", stem #líri- in the instrumental form lírinen "in [the] song" or *"by [the] song" (Nam, RGEO:67)

lirilla noun "lay, song" (LT1:258)

lirit noun "poem" (LT1:258)

lirulin noun "lark" (MR:238, 262), changed from aimenel, aimenal

lís (“lîs”) noun “honey”, “oblique līr- but usually from stem liss-“ (PE17:154). Compare the reading in the Etymologies: lis (liss-, e.g. dat.sg. lissen) (LIS; Tolkien originally wrote lissë, VT45:28)

liscë ("k") noun "reed, sedge" (LT2:335)

lissë adj. "sweet" (Nam, RGEO:66); also noun "sweetness", used metaphorically for "grace" (VT43:29, VT44:18); in this sense the word may be compounded as #Erulissë, q.v. Genitive lissëo in VT44:18. - In the entry LIS in the Etymologies, Tolkien originally gave lissë as the noun "honey", but then changed it to lis with stem liss- (VT45:28)

-lissë or -lissen ending for partitive pl. locative (Plotz); see -li

litsë noun "sand" (LIT)

-líva ending for partitive pl. possessive (Plotz); see -li

lívë noun "sickness" (SLIW). Since Tolkien eventually decided that roots in sl- yield Quenya words in hl- (though this was pronounced l- in late Exilic Quenya), it may be that the spelling *hlívë is to be preferred.

liyúmë noun "host" (VT48:32)

-llë (1) “one of several suffixes indicating feminine agent”, as in Tintallë “kindler” vs. the verb tinta- “to kindle”. In the source (PE17:69) Tolkien noted that -llë was little used because of the clash with the pronominal ending -llë (see #2 below), but the latter ending was later revised.

-llë (2) abandoned pronominal ending “you”, 2nd person pl. (VT49:48); Tolkien later revised this ending to -ldë.

-llo (1) “ablative adverbial suffix” (PE17:72) implying "from" or "out of", as in sindanóriello "out of a grey land", Rómello "from the East" (Nam), Mardello *"from Earth" (FS), ulcullo "from evil" (VT43:12), sillumello "from this hour" (VT44:35), yello *"from whom" (VT47:21), Manwello *”from Manwë” (VT49:24), Melcorello / Melkorello “from Melkor” (VT49:7, 24). Pl. -llon (so in Plotz) or -llor (in illon, elenillor, raxellor, elendellor, q.v.); dual -lto (Plotz). A shorter form of the ablative ending, -lo, apparently occurs in the words silo “hence” and talo “from there”, q.v. In the Etymologies, Tolkien cited the Quenya ablative ending as -ello, evidently including the connecting vowel -e- that may be inserted when the ending is added to a word ending in a consonant (VT45:28), compare Melcorello. See also ló, lo #2.

[-llo (2) “you”, dual; abandoned pronominal ending. Also written -illo. (VT49:49)]

-lma pronominal ending “our”, 1st person pl. exclusive (VT49:16), also attested (with the genitive ending -o that displaces final -a) in the word omentielmo "of our meeting" (nominative omentielma, PE17:58). Tolkien emended omentielmo to omentielvo in the Second Edition of LotR, reflecting a revision of the Quenya pronominal system (cf. VT49:38, 49, Letters:447). The cluster -lm- in the endings for inclusive "we/our" was altered to -lv- (VT43:14). In the revised system, -lma should apparently signify exclusive "our".

-lmë 1st person pl. pronominal ending: "we" (VT49:38; 51 carilmë *”we do”, VT49:16). It was originally intended to be inclusive "we" (VT49:48), including the person(s) spoken to, but by 1965 Tolkien made this the ending for exclusive "we" instead (cf. the changed definition of the corresponding possessive ending -lma, see above). (VT49:38) Exemplified in laituvalmet "we shall bless them" (lait-uva-lme-t "bless-shall-we-them") (the meaning apparently changed from inclusive to exclusive “we”, VT49:55), see also nalmë under ná# 1. (LotR3:VI ch. 4, translated in Letters:308)

-lmo “we (two)”, abandoned pronominal ending for the 1st person dual inclusive (later revised by Tolkien to -ngwë). This -lmo was listed as an alternative to -ngo (VT49:48).

-lto ending for dual ablative (Plotz)

ló (1) noun "night, a night" (DO3/DŌ, VT45:28)

ló, lo (2) prep. “from”, also used = “by” introducing the agent after a passive construction: nahtana ló Turin *“slain by Túrin” (VT49:24). A similar and possibly identical form is mentioned in the Etymologies as being somehow related to the ablative ending -llo, but is not there clearly defined (VT45:28). At one point, Tolkien suggested that lo rather than the ending -llo was used with proper names (lo Manwë rather than Manwello for “from Manwë”), but this seems to have been a short-lived idea (VT49:24).