Quettaparma Quenyallo

nai (2) prefix “ill, grievously, abominably” (PE17:151), cf. naiquet-. Earlier material also lists an interjection nai "alas" (NAY; this may be obsoleted by # 1 above; Namárië uses ai! in a similar sense)

naica (1) adj. “bitterly painful or grievous” (PE17:151)

naica (2) noun "dagger" (GL:37)

#naicando (and #naico, both attested as plural forms in -or) noun "sinner" (VT43:33; Tolkien may have abandoned these forms i favour of #úcarindo)

naicë ("k") noun "sharp pain" (NÁYAK); changed by Tolkien from naiquë ("q") (VT45:37)

naicelë ("k") noun, apparently "sharp pain" (NÁYAK); changed by Tolkien from naiquelë ("q") (VT45:37)

naicelëa ("k") adj. "painful" (NÁYAK); changed by Tolkien from naiquelëa ("q") (VT45:37)

naico (1) noun "sinner"; see naicando

naico (2) ("k") inflected noun? "of hill(s)" (???) (MC:221; this is "Qenya")

naina- vb. "lament" (NAY), also reduplicated nainaina- (VT45:37). Gerund nainië, "lament" as a noun (RGEO:66)

nainaina-, see naina-

[naiquë, naiquelë, naiquelëa] ("q"), see naicë, naicelë, naicelëa

naiquet- vb. “to curse or blaspheme” (PE17:151)

Naira (1) noun "Heart of Flame", a name of the Sun (MR:198)

naira (2) adj. “vast, wide, empty” (PE17:27)

naira (3) adj. “dreadful, horrible, unendurable” (PE17:151)

nairë noun "lament" (NAY)

naitë adj. “true” (VT49:28)

naitya- vb. "put to shame, abuse" (the latter gloss presumably referring to verbal abuse) (QL:65)

nal, nallë noun "dale, dell" (LT1:261)

nalda adj. "valley" (used as an adjective), also “lowly” (LT1:261, QL:66)$

nalla ??? (Narqelion)

nalláma, nallama noun "echo" (LAM). The initial element may be nan- “back”, hence “back-sound”, sound that comes back (cf. láma).

nalmë (1) “we are”, see ná #1, -lmë

[nalmë] (2) ("ñ") noun "clamour" (ÑGAL/ÑGALAM)

nalta ("ñ") noun "radiance, glittering reflection" (from jewels, glass or polished metals, or water) (PM:347)

Ñaltariel noun true Quenya form of Galadriel; the form actually used was Altariel, Quenyarized from Telerin Alatáriel(lë). (PM:347)

nalyë, vb. “you are”, “thou art”; see ná #1

#nam- vb. "judge", attested in the 1st person aorist: namin "I judge" (VT41:13). Compare Námo.

náma noun "a judgement" or "a desire" (VT41:13)

námië noun "(a single) judgement", "(a single) desire" (VT41:13)

namárië interjection "farewell" (Nam, RGEO:67)

namba noun "a hammer" (NDAM), namba- vb. "to hammer" (NDAM). According to VT45:37, Tolkien may have considered the alternative form lamba, but the source is obscure and lamba is assigned a quite different meaning ("tongue") elsewhere.

Nambarauto noun "hammerer of copper [> metal]", masc. name (S Damrod) (RAUTĀ)

namma noun "claw, talon" (also nappa) (VT47:20)

namna noun "statute"; Namna Finwë Míriello "the Statute of Finwë and Míriel" (MR:258)

Námo (1) noun "Judge", name of a Vala, normally called Mandos, properly the place where he dwells (WJ:402)

námo (2) noun "a person, somebody" (PM:340 – writers may prefer the synonym quén to avoid confusion with # 1)

nampë pa.t. of map(a)-, q.v.

nan conj. "but" (FS); the Etymologies also gives ná, nán (NDAN), but these words may be confused with forms of the verb "to be", so nan should perhaps be preferred, unless for "but" one uses the wholly distinct word mal. In Tolkien's later Quenya, it may be that he introduced new words for “but” to free up nan for another meaning (perhaps the adverb “back”, compare the prefix nan-).

nan (nand-) noun "woodland" (LT1:261)

nan- (prefix) "backwards" (NDAN) or “back”, as in nanwen- “return” (go/come back, PE17:166), cf. also nanquernë *”turned back”, the pl. form of *nanquerna (VT49:17-18). Apparently assimilated nal- in nalláma “echo” (if this represents *nan-láma “back-sound”, sound coming back).

Nanar pl. noun "Green-elves, *Danians", sg. *Nana (DAN)

nanda noun “vale (wide)” (PE17:80), "water-mead, watered plain" (NAD)

nanca adj. *”slain” (PE17:68); see -na

#nancar- vb. “undo” (destroy). Cited in the form nancari- (“k”), apparently including the connecting vowel of the aorist (PE17:166)

nanda- ("ñ") vb. "to harp" (ÑGAN/ÑGÁNAD)

nandaro ("ñ") noun "harper" (ÑGAN/ÑGÁNAD)

nandë (1) noun "valley" in Laurenandë (UT:253), elided nand’ in the name Nand’ Ondoluncava (k”) “Stonewain Valley” (PE17:28). Possibly the complete word is here meant to be the variant nando (PE17:80), as suggested by the alternative form Ondoluncanan(do) (“k”) “Stonewain Valley”. Also nan, nand- noun "valley" (Letters:308); Nan-Tasarion "Vale of Willows" (LotR2:III ch. 4) (Note that this and the next nandë would be spelt differently in Tengwar writing, and originally they were also pronounced differently, since nandë "harp" was ñandë in First Age Quenya.)

nandë (2) ("ñ") noun "harp" (ÑGAN/ÑGÁNAD; according to VT46:3, Tolkien changed the final vowel from -a to -ë)

nandelë ("ñ") noun "harping" (ÑGAN/ÑGÁNAD)

nandellë ("ñ") noun "little harp" (ÑGAN/ÑGÁNAD)

nandin noun "fay of the country" (LT1:261)

#Nando (1) pl. Nandor noun name of the Green-elves (Laiquendi). The primitive word ¤ndandō, whence Quenya Nando, implied "one who goes back on his word or decision", since the Nandor left the March from Cuiviénen to Aman. Adj. Nandorin. (WJ:412, VT48:32)

nando (2) “valley, wide valley”, variant of nandë #1, q.v. (PE17:80)

nánë vb. “was”, náner “were”; see ná #1

nangwa noun "jaw" (NAK)

nanwa adj. “existing, actual (true)” (VT49:30). Compare the near-synonym anwa.

nanwë noun "ebb, lowtide" (VT48:26). Compare lanwë.

nanwen- vb. “return” (go/come back) (PE17:166). The etymological form nan-men- indicates that the second element is #men- “go”, changed to -wen- following nan- “back”; hence the perfect should perhaps be *naneménië.

nányë vb. “I am”; see ná #1

napan- vb. “add” (PE17:146)

nápat noun "thumb and index as a pair", a dual formation. Apparently formed from #nápa, an alternative form of nápo "thumb"; Telerin also has a final -a (rather than -o) in this word (VT48:5; etymology, VT48:16)

nápo noun "thumb" (VT47:10, VT48:4, 5). Compare nápat.

nappa noun "claw, talon" (also namma) (VT47:20)

napsa noun “suspicion” (QL:64)

nar (1) "are"; see ná #1

[nar] (2), see [narwë]

nár noun "flame", also nárë (NAR¹). Translated "fire" in some names, see Aicanár(o), Fëanáro (where nár apparently has the masculine ending -o added to it). According to PE17:183, nár- is “fire as an element” (a concrete fire or blaze is rather called a ruinë).

naraca ("k") adj. "harsh, rending, violent" (NÁRAK; according to VT45:37, Tolkien added a qualification that is not certainly legible: "of [?sounds]")

narca- ("k") vb. "to rend" (NÁRAK; the form "narki" in LR is a misreading for narka; see VT45:37)

narda noun "knot" (SNAR)

nárë, also short nár, noun "flame" (NAR¹, Narqelion). Translated "fire" in some names, see Aicanáro, Fëanáro (where nár apparently has the masculine ending -o, though in the latter name it may also be the genitive ending since Fëa-náro is translated “Spirit of Fire”). At one point, Tolkien mentioned “nār-“ as the word for “fire (as an element)” (PE17:183). Cf. ruinë as the word for “a fire” (a concrete instance of fire) in the same source.

Nárië noun sixth month of the year, "June" (Appendix D); derived from the stem (a)nar- having to do with fire or sun.

Narmacil noun masc. name, *"Flame-sword" (Appendix A)