Quettaparma Quenyanna

T-SERIES tincotéma (dental series) –LotR:1154

TUBE róta –LT2:347

TÚN (Old English) see FENCED FIELD –PEL(ES)

TUNE lindë (air, song, singing); HARPING ON ONE TUNE vorongandelë ("vorogandele" in the published Etymologies is a misreading; see VT45:7) (continuous repetition) –LIN²

TUNIC laupë (shirt) –QL:51

TUNNEL rotto (cave, small grot) –PM:365, VT46:12

TURGON Turucáno (so in PM:345, obsoleting Turondo in LT1:115)

TURN (transitive) quer-, attested as pa.t. quernë (VT49:20). Also with prefix nan- “back”, attested in the plural passive participle nanquernë “turned back” (sg. *nanquerna; compare nuquerna, see REVERSED). (VT49:17, 18, 20). *TURNED WESTWARD númenquerna (VT49:18, 20). English intransitive “to turn” requires a reflexive pronoun in Quenya: mo quernë immo *“one turned oneself” (VT49:6), in idiomatic English simply “one turned”.

TURN-TABLE querma (spinning wheel) –PE17:65

TURRET mindon (tower) –LT1:260

TUSK carca (tooth, fang) –Silm:429, LT2:344

TWANG tingë, tango. LT1:256 has quingi- "twang, of strings, harp". In Etym, there is also the unglossed verb tanga- = *"make a twang"??? –TING, TANG

TWELVE yunquë ("q"), archaic (pre-historic?) form yuncë (VT48:7, 8). Also (or in another conceptual phase, or in duodecimal counting?) #rasta (only the stem RÁSAT is given in the Etymologies, but cf. yurasta "24", i.e. 2 x 12, in PE14:17). For the syntax of numerals, see THREE. TWELVE HOURS ("day" when not meaning 24 hours) arya (day). (The word arya is however assigned other meanings in later sources, and aurë is given as the word for “day” meaning daylight period.) Fraction ONE TWELFTH yunquesta –VT47:41, VT48:6, PE14:82, RÁSAT, AR¹, VT48:11

TWENTY-FOUR yurasta –PE14:17

TWI- (prefix) yú-, yu- (both) –VT45:13, VT46:23

TWICE yú –PE14:84

TWILIGHT tindómë (usually of the time near dawn, glossed "starry twilight" in Silm:438), undómë (= evening twilight), yúcalë, yualë, lómë (stem lómi-) (night, dusk, gloom, darkness. Cf. Lómion "Child of the Twilight".) –LotR 1145, KAL, LT1:255, Silm:160

TWIN onóna (also = adj "twinborn", the primary meaning of the word), pl. ónoni (surprisingly, a dual form is not used) –WJ:367

TWINE lia- (Note: lia is also a noun meaning "fine thread, spider's filament") –LT1:271

TWINKLE #tintila- (only pl tintilar is attested) –Nam, RGEO:67

TWINKLING STAR tingilya, tingilindë –TIN

TWIST #ric- (only the perfect irícië "has twisted" is attested) (VT39:9)

TWISTED nauca (hard, ill-shapen, *small – see SMALL.) –WJ:413

TWITCH (verb:) rihta- (jerk, give quick twist or move), (noun:) rinca (jerk, trick, sudden move) –RIK(H), VT46:11 cf. RIK(H)

TWO atta. When constructed with a noun, atta follows and the noun is wholly uninflected: elen atta “two stars”. Case endings (the simplest, normally “singular” ones) are added to the numeral: genitive elen atto “of two stars”. –AT(AT)/Letters:427, VT48:6, VT49:44-45