Quenya-English Dictionary

E
e ?. indeed? unidentified word in the
sentence e man antaváro? (LR:63),
”what will he give indeed?” It may
be an adverbial particle ”indeed”;
on the other hand, one very early
”Qenya” text may suggest that it
is the pronoun ”he”, though ”he”
is also expressed as the ending -ro:
”He - what will he give?”
-ë gram. grammar-pluralisationadjectives-general
adjectives,
like verbs, must agree with their
nouns in number. An adjective
usually pluralises by removing the
final vowel and replacing with -ë,
unless the adjective already ends in
-ë (in which case it pluralises in -i)
or in -ëa (in which case the -ëa is
removed and replaced by -ië)
etymology: pluralisation of adjectives
used to be done by the addition
of -i. For example: lantai. Then
-ai become -ë (thus why we must
remove the a and replace with -ë).
But and adjective ending with -ëa
would become -ëai - which would
have become -ëe, thus it became -ië
see also: -i, -ië
-ë gram. grammar-verbs-aoristfinal
The aorist is generally formed
in -i, but where it is final, it is
formed in -ë. It should still be
formed in -i if an ending must be ap-
plied.
etymology: in primitive elvish,
the aorist was probably formed in -
î which became -ë in quenya when
final
see also: -i
Eä n. creation, universe, it is, it
be ”is” in a more absolute sense
than the copula ná = ”exists” (CO);
Eä ”it is” or ”let it be”, used as a
noun for ”All Creation”, the universe
(WJ:402; Letters:284, footnote)
Taryn - ? the great ”I am”?
-ëa gram. grammar-verbspresent-tense
a-stem verbs
form the present tense by changing
the -a into -ëa and lengthening the
stem-vowel. This is the equivalant
of adding -es or sometimes ”is
˜-ing” to an English verb. eg do
becomes ”does” or ”is doing” →
lanta- becomes lantëa. Pure verbs
from present tense in -a
see also: -a
ëala n. being, spirit spirits whose
natural state it is to exist without
a physical body, like Balrogs
(MR:165), contrast with Vala and
Maia
ëar n. sea (WJ:413; see Letters:386 for
etymology) Eär ”the Great Sea”, ablative
Eärello ”from the Great Sea”,
et Eärello ”out of the Great Sea”
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