maita- (2) transitive vb. “to make with art, design, compose” (PE17:163). Cf. maitar, maitalë.
maitalënoun “the act (not the result) of doing work of art” (PE17:163)
maitarnoun “artist” (by itself usually: a poet), also compounded in lindimaitar “composer, musician”, nyarnamaitar “storyteller”, ondomaitar “sculptor in stone”, (PE17:163)
maitë (stem *maiti-, given the primitive form ¤ma3iti) adj. "handed” or “handy, skillful” (VT49:32, 42) in Angamaitë, hyarmaitë, lungumaitë, morimaitë, Telemmaitë, q.v. Etym gives maitë pl. maisi "handy, skilled" (MA3), but Tolkien later eliminated the variation t/s (compare ataformaitë “ambidextrous”, pl. ataformaiti).
Maitimonoun "well-shaped one", mother-name (never used in narrative) of Nelyafinwë = Maedhros (PM:353)
maivoinënoun "great longing" (LT2:345)
maiwënoun "gull" (MIW), pl. maiwi in Markirya. Cf. also the "Qenya" pl. maiwin "gulls" (MC:213)
malconj. "but" (VT43:23)
mala- vb. "hurt, pain" (QL:63)
Malantur, masc. name. Apparently includes -(n)tur "lord, ruler". The initial element is unlikely to connect with the early "Qenya" element mala- "hurt, pain", and may rather reflect the root MALAT "gold" (PM:366): Malat-ntur > Malantur "Gold-ruler"? (UT:210)
malarauconoun "balrog, demon" (RUK - rather valarauco in Tolkien's later Quenya)
malcanë("k") noun "torture" (LT1:250)
Malcaraucë noun "balrog", also Valkaraucë("k") (LT1:250; in Tolkien's later Quenya Valarauco)
maldaadj. “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”.
maldornënoun (fictional species of tree, Sindarin mallorn). Variant of malinornë (apparently arising by shortening to *malnornë and the normal development ln > ld, unless the shorter adjective malda is present from the beginning). (PE17:51)