Quettaparma Quenyallo

nwin, see ngwin

-nya pronominal suffix, 1st person sg. possessive, "my" (VT49:16, 38, 48), e.g. tatanya *"my daddy" (UT:191, VT48:17), meldonya *”my [male] friend” (VT49:38), meldenya *"my [female] friend” (Elaine inscription), omentienya *”my meeting” (PE17:68), tyenya “my tye” (tye being an intimate form of “you”), used = “dear kinsman” (VT49:51, 56). This ending seems to prefer i as its connecting vowel where one is needed, cf. Anarinya "my sun" in LR:72, so also in hildinyar "my heirs". It was previously theorized by some that a final -ë would also be changed to -i- before -nya, but the example órenya "my heart [órë]" indicates that this is not the case (VT41:11).

nyano, see nyarro

nyar- vb. "to tell" (1st pers. aorist nyarin "I tell") (NAR², VT45:36). Compare nyárë, nyarië, nyarna.

nyárë noun "tale, saga, history". Compounded in Eldanyárë "History of the Elves", lumenyárë "history, chronological account" (NAR², LR:199). Compare nyarië, nyarna.

nyarië noun “a fable, story, legend” (gerund of nyar-). (QL:68)

nyarna noun "tale, saga" (NAR²), compounded in nyarmamaitar noun "storyteller" (PE17:163), literally *"tale-artist" (see maitar).

nyarro noun "rat", the most likely reading of Tolkien's manuscript. Christopher Tolkien originally read the word as "nyano" (so in the published Etymologies, entry NYAD), but the "Noldorin"/Sindarin cognates nadhr, nadhor (VT46:7) indicate that the primitive form is meant to be *nyadrō, which form could hardly yield "nyano" in Quenya.

-nyë, 1st person sg. pronominal suffix "I"; also short form -n (q.v.). Carin or carinyë *“I do” (VT49:16). With object -s following in utúvienyes “I have found it” (see tuv-). It may be that Tolkien at one point considered nye (or ne, inyë) as an independent emphatic pronoun “I”, but this was struck out (VT49:49).

[nyel an (incomplete?) word occurring in the deleted entry NYELED in the Etymologies, VT46:7). Compare perhaps the final element of Falanyel, #Solonyel]