Quettaparma Quenyanna

UDÛN Utumno (stem *Utumnu-) –Silm:438

UGH horro, orro (alas! ow!) ("exclamation of horror, pain, disgust") –VT45:17

UGLY úvanima (not fair). See also WITHOUT BEAUTY.-VT39:14

ULCER: The early "Qenya" term sist with stem sisty- may perhaps be updated to LotR-style Quenya as *sistë with stem *sisti-. ULCERATED sistina (QL:86)

ULTIMATE métima (final, last) –MC:222 cf. 215

UN- (prefix denying presence or possession of thing or quality) ú- (no-, not, un-, in-) (according to LR:396 s.v. UGU, this prefix usually has a "bad sense", cf. vanimor "fair folk" vs. úvanimor "monsters"), il- (denoting "the opposite, the reversal, i.e., more than the mere negation"), also pretonic prefix la- "un-, not-". –VT39:14, UGU, UMU, LT1:255, VT45:25

*UNCOUNTABLE únótima (pl. únótimë is attested). Translated "numberless"; the interlinear translation in RGEO:66 has "not-count-able", while VT39:14 offers the translation "countless". –Nam

UNCOUNTED unotë, unotëa (read *únotë, *únotëa?) (not counted) –VT39:14

UNDER undu, nu (so in Nam; Etym has no); UNDERNEATH nún (down below); "UNDER-POINT" (lower digit = "toe") nútil (nútill-, pl. nútilli given) –UNU, NŪ, VT47:10

UNDERSTAND hanya- (know about, be skilled in dealing with); UNDERSTANDING (noun) handë (knowledge); UNDERSTANDING (adjectival) handa (intelligent) –KHAN

UNFOLDING (noun) pantië (opening, revealing) –QL:72

UNFURL panta- (spread out, open) –PAT

UNIVERSE ilu, ilúvë (the whole, the all, Allness). The term ilu used of the universe includes God and all souls and spirits, that are not properly included in the term Eä. The verb Eä, itself properly a verb “it is”, is also “used as noun = the whole created universe” (but “properly cannot be used of God since ëa refers only to all things created by Eru directly or mediately”). –ILU (see IL), VT39:20, VT49:28

UNWILL avanir (VT39:23)

UNPRONOUNCEABLE úquétima (impossible to say/put into words, unspeakable) –WJ:370

UNSPEAKABLE úquétima (impossible to say/put into words, unpronounceable) –WJ:370

UNTIL, UNTO tenna (also in shortened form tenn' before a word in a-) –LotR:1003, VT44:35-36

UNWISE alasaila –VT41:13, 18

UP, UPWARDS amba, ama (prefix:) am-. (The "Qenya" form amu in LT2:335 is prob. obsolete.) "UP-POINT" (upper digit = "finger") ortil (ortill-, pl. ortilli given). UPWARD SLOPE amban; UPHILL (adj) ambapenda, ampenda – AM², UNU, VT47:10

UPON – this English preposition may be rendered by the allative case, endings -nna pl. -nnar, dual -nta. Cf. falmalinnar "upon foaming waves", tielyanna "upon your path". –Nam, UT:22 cf. 51

UPPER AIRS AND CLOUDS fanyarë (skies) –MC:223

UPRISING (noun) ambaron, Ambarónë (sunrise, Orient) (a similar but untranslated word, Ambaróna, occurs in LotR:490). Rómen is glossed "uprising, sunrise, east" in Silm:437, but the normal meaning of the word is always "east". Cf. also: "UPRISING-FLOWER" *ambalotsë ("referring to the flower or floreate device used as a crest fixed to [the] point of a tall [illegible word, possibly 'archaic'] helmet", "pointed helm-crest". Tolkien asterisked the word because it was not attested, only a possible Quenya form of the name Amloth) –AM², LotR:490, WJ:318

URANUS Luinil (or less probably Nénar; it is not known for certain which of the two is Uranus and which is Neptune) –Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55

URGE horta- (speed, send flying); URGING (noun, not adjectival participle) hortalë (speeding), URGENCY hormë –KHOR

US: The exclusive pronoun (us = “I and some others, not you”) is me (suffixed to ála “do not” in álamë tulya, "do not lead us”, VT43:12, 22). This pronoun evidently connects with the ending -lmë, see WE. Inclusive "us" (i.e. "you and me") should apparently be *ve (for older we), connecting with the subject ending -lvë (older -lwë). If the pronouns me, *ve are stressed, the vowel may be lengthened (mé, vé, VT49:51). In another conceptual phase, Tolkien’s word for inclusive "we, us" may have been *ngwë (Third Age Quenya *nwë), VT48:11. The dual forms receive the ending -t, hence met, wet > *vet as the words for “us” referring to only two persons (exclusive met = “me and one other [not you]”; inclusive wet/*vet = “thee and me”). – Evidently me, *ve would be the same as subject and object, so that these forms could also be translated "we" as a short independent pronoun, and they can also receive case endings, e.g. attested forms like locative messë "on us", allative mello "from us", dative men "for us", allative véna “to us”. The forms atarmë, metermë "for us" also seem to include me, but these forms were evidently ephemeral ("for us", exclusive, is better rendered as men, itself an attested form). –Nam/RGEO:67, VT43:15, 19, VT44:18, VT49:14

USE TONGUE, see TALK.

USEFUL mára (fit, good) –MA3

USUAL senwa (also senya; analogy would however suggest that *senya can also be the independent pronoun “his, her”; if so senwa may be preferred as the less ambiguous form). AS USUAL ve senwa, ve senya. –VT49:22