Quettaparma Quenyallo

Maia pl. Maiar noun "the Beautiful" (MR:49), the lesser (= non-Vala) Ainur that entered Eä. Variant Máya in VT42:13/VT47:18, pl. Máyar in PM:363, 364 and VT47:18 (possibly, Máya is to be understood as the older form of Maia). With negative prefix ú- also Úmaiar, Maiar who became evil and followed Melkor, such as Balrogs (MR:79, "Umaiar", MR:165).

maica (1) ("k") adj. "sharp, piercing" (SA:maeg), cf. hendumaica and the noun maica below.

maica (2) ("k") noun "blade of a cutting tool or weapon, especially sword-blade" (VT39:11)

mailë noun "lust" (MIL-IK)

mailëa adj. "lustful" (MIL-IK)

maira adj. “admirable, excellent, precious”; “splendid, sublime” (“only of great, august or splendid things”) (PE17:163, 172). Cf. Mairon.

mairë noun “work of high and beautiful art” (or the process of producing a work) (PE17:163)

mairëa adj. “beautiful” (of things made by art) (PE17:163). An alternative (and peculiar) form “mairia” is also implied in the source.

Mairen fem. name (UT:210), initial element perhaps related or identical to mai "well". The second element is obscure; the root REN "recall, have in mind" (PM:372) could be related; if so the name may imply "well remembered", "(of) good memory" or something similar. It may also connect with the adj. maira, q.v. and compare the masc. name Mairon (PE18:163).