Quettaparma Quenyanna

VAGUE néca (faint, dim to see) –MC:223

VALE (dark) tumbë (deep valley); DEEP VALE imbë (dale) (Note: imbë is also the preposition "between") –LT:269, VT45:18

*VALIAN valarinwa, attested in Lambë Valarinwa "the language of the Valar, *Valian Language". Cf. also valaina "of the Valar, belonging to the Valar" (divine) –WJ:395, BAL

VALLEY nan (nand-), tumbo (stem *tumbu-) (deep valley under/among hills, dark vale; so in Etym, Silm:438 and LT1:269. Letters:308 gives tumba "deep valley".) VALLEY (adj.) nalda (lowly), "VALLEY OF SINGING GOLD" Laurelindorinan (Lórien). –TUB, LotR:488 cf. Letters:308, LT1:261, UT:449

VALOUR cánë –KAN

VALUABLE mirwa (precious) –PE17:37

VANISHED vanwa (gone, departed, dead, lost, past and over) –WAN, Nam, WJ:366

VAST – LT2 gives aica "broad, vast", but aica is said to mean "sharp" in later writings. –LT2:338

VEIL (vb) halya- (conceal, screen from light), fanta- (to cloak, mantle). "VEILS, RAYMENT" fana (pl fanar is attested. This word was used of the visible bodies in which the Valar presented themselves to incarnates.) VEILED halda (hidden, shadowed, shady) –SKAL, VT43:22, RGEO:74

VENUS Eärendil (Basic Quenya:24, cf. Silm:55), Tancol ("Signifer", "the significant star" – MR:385)

VERDIGRIS lairus (lairust-) –VT41:10

VESSEL venë (small boat, dish) –LT1:254

VESTMENT colla (cloak) –MR:385

VICTORY túrë (mastery, might, strength), apairë –TUR, GL:17

VIGIL tirissë, also short tiris (tiriss-) (watch) –QL:93, LT1:258

VIGOUR tuo (muscle, sinew, strength), vië (manhood), vëassë, laito/laisi (new life, youth); VIGOROUS vëa (adult, manly); SET VIGOROUSLY OUT TO DO horya- (be compelled to do, have an impulse) –TUG, LT1:267, WEG, VT45:22

VILLAGE masto, (walled village:) opelë (town) –LT1:251, PEL(ES)

VINE liantassë, in other early material also liantë, but the latter word is elsewhere defined as “spider” or “tendril” instead. –LT1:271, PE14:55

VIOLENCE ormë (rushing, wrath, haste); VIOLENT naraca (harsh, rending) (possibly "of sounds", but Tolkien's extra comment is partially illegible) –GOR, KHOR, NÁRAK, VT45:37

VIOLET helin, Helinyetillë ("Eyes of heartsease") (pansy) –LT1:262

VIRGIN, see MAID, MAIDEN

*VIRGINAL (or, *MAIDENLY) *vénëa (only attested in elided form vénë') –VT44:10

VIRGINITY vénë (with the alternative, older [MET] form wénë), venessë –WEN

VISION olos (olor- for older oloz-, as in the archaic pl. olozi, later olori) (dream) –UT:396.

VOCALIC EXTENSION ómataina (i.e., the addition to the base of a final vowel identical to the base vowel [sundóma]) –WJ:417

VOICE óma (pl instrumental ómainen "with voices" is attested. In some words, óma is translated "vowel", q.v.) VOICELESS ómalóra –OM, WJ:391, VT39:16 (the latter source defines óma as "voice, resonance of the vocal chords"), VT45:28

VOID lusta (empty), cúma (the Void) –LUS, KUM

VOMIT quama- (be ill) –QL:76

VOWEL #ómëa (only pl. ómëar attested), also #óma-tengwë, #ómatengwë (this term refers to vowels considered as independent phonemes, according to Fëanor's new insights on phonemics; only pl. ómatengwi is attested), óman (pl. "amandi" in LR:379 is a misreading for omandi, VT46:7; this term from the Etymologies may in any case be obsoleted by the above-mentioned forms), #lehta tengwë (lit. "free/relased element"; only pl. lehta tengwi is attested; we would rather expect *lehtë tengwi). (Note: In some compounds, óma seems to mean "vowel" instead of "voice": VOWEL SIGN #ómatehta (only pl ómatehtar is attested), DETERMINANT VOWEL sundóma, VOCALIC EXTENSION ómataina (q.v. for definition). Yet another term for "vowel", #penna pl. pennar, is given in VT39:16, but this is taken from a draft and not included in the final text Tolkien wrote. – The term #mussë tengwë "soft element" (only attested in the pl.: mussë tengwi) covers vowels, semi-vowels (y, w) and continuants (l, r, m, n). –VT39:8/16, OM, WJ:396, 319, 417, VT39:17