Quettaparma Quenyallo

nisto noun "large woman" (compare nís) (VT45:33)

nítë (stem *níti-, given the primitive form ¤neiti) adj. "moist, dewy" (NEI, VT45:38)

#nitya adj. "small" (VT48:15, PM:365)

[nityë noun, ephemeral word for "little finger", changed to nícë (VT48:15)

nívë adj."pale" (MC:213; this is "Qenya" – Tolkien's later Quenya has néca)

nixë noun "frost" (WJ:417); previously described as a synonym of niquis “ice-flake or snowflake”, q.v. (PE17:168)

-nna "to, at, upon", allative ending, originating from -na “to” with fortified n, VT49:14. Attested in cilyanna, coraryanna, Endorenna, Elendilenna, númenórenna, parma-restalyanna, rénna, senna, tielyanna, q.v. If a noun ends in -n already, the ending -nna merges with it, as in Amanna, formenna, Elenna, númenna, rómenna as the allative forms of Aman, formen, elen, númen, rómen (q.v.). Plural -nnar in mannar, valannar, q.v.

no prep. "under" (NŪ; all other sources give nu instead. In early "Qenya", no meant "upon"; MC:214)

nó (1) (stem nów- as in pl. nówi) noun "conception" (= idea) (NOWO). In an earlier version, later deleted, nó represented earlier ñó (ngó), glossed "idea, thought" (VT46:6).

nó (2) conj. "but" (VT41:13)

nó (3) prep. “before” (of time, compare nóvo), “at back” (of spatial relationships). In other conceptual phases, Tolkien also let the word have the opposite meaning “after” (of time) or “in front” (of space). (VT49:32).

noa (1) noun "conception" (= idea) (NOWO)

noa (2) adj. “former”, also adv. (and noun?) “yesterday”, shortened from the full phrase noa ré “former day” (VT49:34). In other conceptual phases, Tolkien used noa for “tomorrow” (VT49:20). Compare enwa.

[noa (3) noun "thigh" (VT46:4)]

Nócoirë noun alternative name of March (PM:135)

noi noun "lament" (NAY)

#noirë noun "tomb", isolated from Noirinan, q.v. This compound may suggest that noirë has the stem-form noiri-, unless the compound is supposed to contain a plural form "tombs".

Noirinan noun the "Valley of the Tombs" in Númenor (evidently *noirë, *noiri- "tomb" + nan "valley") (UT:166)

ñol- noun "smell" (VT45:5); strengthened aññol, q.v. Possibly ñol- should be regarded as simply the root underlying olmë, q.v.

nóla ("ñ") (1) adj. "wise, learned" (ÑGOL) (note that this and the next nóla would be spelt differently in Tengwar writing, and originally they were also pronounced differently, since nóla "wise, learned" was ñóla in First Age Quenya).

nóla (2) noun "round head, knoll" (NDOL)

Nólairë noun alternative name of July (PM:135)

†ñolda adj. “dark-haired” (PE17:125), associated with Noldor and hence not much used. Cf. nolya.

noldarë noun "mole"; also nolpa (GL:30)

noldo (ñ) noun "one of the people of the Noldor", "one of the wise folk, Gnome". Cf. the gloss "Gnome" in early "Qenya" (LT1:262). Also name of tengwa #19, that is used for the initial n of noldo in Tengwar spelling. Originally pronounced ngoldo (also spelt ñoldo by Tolkien, ÑGOLOD); initial ng had become n in Third Age pronunciation (Appendix E). Pl. Noldor ("Ñoldor"), "the Wise", name of the second clan of the Eldar (WJ:380, 381); gen. pl. Noldoron "of the Noldor" is attested (VT39:16)

Noldolantë (ñ) noun "the Fall of the Noldor" (name of a song) (Silm)

Noldomar (ñ) noun "Gnomeland" (LT1:262).

Noldomírë (ñ) lit. noun *"Noldo-jewel", another word for Silmaril (ÑGOLOD).

Noldo-quentasta ("Ñoldo-") noun "Noldo-history", History of the Noldor (VT39:16)

Noldóran ("ñ") noun "King of the Noldor" (PM:343; evidently noldo + aran).

Noldorinwa (ñ) adj. *"Gnomish", "Noldorin", "of the Noldor" (LT1:262, VT39:16); lower-case noldorinwa in Narqelion.

nólë (ñ) noun "long study (of any subject), lore, knowledge" (SA:gûl, also WJ:383 and MR:350, there spelt ñóle, the earlier pronunciation. In the Etymologies, stem ÑGOL, the gloss is "wisdom".) Compare Nólion. At one point, Tolkien was dissatisfied with ÑGOL as the stem for “wisdom” and introduced the form núlë (q.v.) of slightly dissimilar meaning (PE17:125).

nólemë (ñ) noun "deep lore, wisdom" (LT1:263). Perhaps replaced by Nolmë in Tolkien's later Quenya.