Middle Primitive Elvish Words
- -ā suf. “present suffix”
- a-¹ pref. “complete”
- a-² pref.
- abāro n. “refuser, one who does not go forth”
- abtā- v. “to go away”
- adnō n. “gate”
- ai adv. “possibility”
- aı̯an- adj. “holy”
- aikwā adj. “tall, steep”
- ailin n. “pool, lake”
- akkala- v. “to blaze, shine (suddenly and) brilliantly”
- akrā adj. “narrow”
- aktō n. “artificer, maker, wright”
- al pref. “without”
- ala- pref. “very”
- alakanda n.
- alakarƀǝ adj. “very active”
- álākō n. “rush, rushing flight, wild wind”
- alarʒǝ adj. “very dread”
- alā́ri n. “bliss”
- alar-si interj. “hail!”
- alkwā n. “swan”
- amba- adv.
- ambar n.
- amƀus n. “breast”
- amī̆l n. “mother”
- ammat- v. “to devour”
- amtā n. “jaws, animal’s mouth”
- Anār n. “Sun”
- andā adj. “long”
- andambundā adj. “long-snouted”
- andọl n. “long pole”
- angā n.
- angosse n. “horror”
- ankā n. “jaw, row of teeth”
- añkal- v. “to blaze” see akkala-
- aññol- n. see oññol-
- anta- v. “to give, present”
- arān n.
- (a)ranyā adj. “free, ?uncontrolling”
- arʒā adj. and n. “dread”
- ari n. “day”
- askarā adj. “tearing, hastening”
- asmalē n. “yellow bird, ‘yellow hammer’”
- asmalindē n. “yellow bird, ‘yellow hammer’”
- -asta suf. “collective plural”
- atakwē n. “construction, building”
- atalat- v. “slip right down, collapse, fall to ruin”
- atar n. “father”
- atta num. card. “two”
- atū n. “father”
- atyēnar n. “anniversary day”
- au adv. “wish or supposition known to be unreal”
- auluta- v. “[unglossed]”
- -bā suf.
- -ba suf. “genitival adjective”
- bad- v. “to judge”
- bād- n. “judgement”
- balā adj. and n. “powerful; Power, God”
- Bale n.
- bányā adj. “beautiful”
- Baradā adj. “lofty, sublime”
- barasā adj. “hot, burning”
- barnā adj.
- baryā- v. “to protect”
- batā̆ n. “beaten track, pathway”
- battā v. “trample”
- bedū n.
- belē n. “strength”
- bélekā adj. “mighty, huge, great”
- berékā adj. “wild”
- berō n. “valiant man, warrior”
- bérya- v. “to dare”
- besnō n. “husband”
- bessē n. “wife”
- bestā n. “matrimony”
- besū n. “husband and wife, married pair”
- beurō n. “follower, vassal”
- beuyā- v. “follow, serve”
- -b(iy)ē suf. “-ing”
- boron- v.
- b’randā adj. “lofty, noble, fine”
- b’rássē n. “heat”
- b’rekta v. “break out suddenly”
- b’rethā n. “beech-mast”
- b’rittē n. “broken stones, gravel”
- b’rōnā adj.
- buzbō n. “large fly”
- -d suf. “allative”
- dagdā n. “pit”
- dagwe ?
- daʒrā adj. “great, large”
- daiō n. “shade, shadow cast by any object”
- danta- v.
- dattā n. “hole, pit”
- dēr n. “man”
- dimbā adj. “sad, gloomy”
- dimbē n. “gloom, sadness”
- doʒmē n.
- dōmi n. “night, twilight, gloom”
- dōmilindē n. “nightingale”
- d’rāk n.
- e pron. “he, she, it”
- edel- n. “Star-folk, Elf”
- edēlā n. “firstborn, eldest”
- edenā adj. “first”
- ednōno n. “firstborn”
- eʒ- v. “to be”
- ektel- v. “to gush”
- ektele n. “spring, issue of water”
- ektelu- v. “to well, bubble up, gush forth”
- #eledā n. “Star-folk, Elf”
- en adv. “yonder”
- eñma ?
- ent adv. “over there”
- epe prep. “after”
- eredē n. “seed”
- erekwa adj. “isolated”
- eremaloitē adj.
- et prep. “out, forth”
- ete adv. “back, below”
- etkat- v. “to fashion”
- et-kelē n. “spring, issue of water”
- etkoitu- v. “to bud, open (of flowers and leaves)”
- et-kuiwē n. “awakening”
- etsiri n. “mouth of a river”
- ettul- v. “to come out”
- ezdē n. “rest”
- farā- v.
- ga pron. “indefinite subject”
- gais- v. “to dread”
- gaisrā adj. “dreadful”
- galā- v. “to grow”
- gālæ n. “light”
- galadā n. “tree”
- galyā adj. “bright, light”
- garta n. “hide, leather”
- gāsa n. “void”
- gassā n. “hole, gap”
- gattā n. “cavern”
- geiā adv. “ever”
- gilya n. “star”
- glā n. “radiance”
- glamba n. “shouting, din”
- glisi n. “honey”
- golā- v. “to grow”
- golbā n. “branch”
- #gondō n. “stone, rock”
- gor n. “vigour”
- gū̆- interj. “no, not”
- gyernā adj. “old, worn, decrepit (of things)”
- hamwa n. “chair”
- hō n. “shout”
- hyōlā n. “trump”
- ʒō prep. “partitive; away from, from among”
- -i suf. “aorist suffix”
- ī article. “the”
- īdē n. “heart, desire, wish”
- idrē n. “thoughtfulness”
- ilpirin adj. “immortal”
- -ina suf. “adjective”
- indo n. “mood, heart”
- ing adj. “*first”
- ista- v. “to know”
- istāyā adj. “learned”
- Ithil n. “moon”
- -(i)yē suf. “perfect suffix”
- -iyē suf. “gerund, -ing”
- -jĕ suf. “subjunctive affix”
- #kab- v.
- kaima n. “bed”
- kaire n. “flat isle on a river”
- kalaryā adj. “brilliant”
- kalat n. “light”
- kalrō n. “noble man, hero”
- kalrondō n. “hero”
- kaltwa ? “[unglossed]”
- kalumalanda n.
- kalumalō n.
- kambā n.
- kandā adj. and n. “bold”
- kantaya adj. “shapely”
- kar- v.
- karanā́ adj. “ruddy, scarlet”
- karani adj. “red”
- karƀǝ adj. “active”
- karpalimā n.
- kartastā n.
- kas n. “head”
- kasma n.
- kassa n.
- kast adv. “towards the top”
- kat- v. “to shape”
- katal n. “carving tool”
- katwā adj. “shaped, formed”
- katwārā adj. “shapely”
- ke pron. “thou”
- kelu- v. “to flow, well up”
- kelun n. “river”
- kelutā- v. “to cause to flow out”
- kēm n. “*earth”
- khagdā n. “heap, pile, (piled) mound”
- khaimē n. “custom, habit”
- khalatirnō̆ n. “fish watcher”
- khalnā adj. “noble, exalted”
- khaustā n. “rest-ing”
- khe¹ pron. “we (inclusive)” see we
- khe² pron. “they”
- khīmā adj. “sticky, viscous”
- khīthi n. “mist, fog”
- khithme n. “fog”
- khithwa adj.
- khōn n. “heart”
- khotsē n. “assembly”
- khrassē n. “precipice”
- khugan n. “hound”
- khyelesē n. “glass”
- kiryā n. “ship”
- kiryaktō n. “shipwright”
- kiukā n. “thigh”
- k’lā n. “light”
- kōmā n. “[unglossed]”
- kornā adj. “round, globed”
- kotse n.
- kott- n. “quarrel”
- k’rannā adj. “ruddy (of face)”
- k’rikta- v. “reap”
- krumbā adj. “*left”
- krumbē n. “*left hand”
- kuʒnā adj. “bowed, bow-shaped, bent”
- kuilez n. “quiet”
- kukūwā n. “dove”
- kuldā adj. “red”
- #kundū n.
- kuu̯ n. “bow”
- *kwantā adj. “full”
- kwelēnē n.
- kwelett- n. “corpse”
- kwendya adj.
- kwǣnē n. “small gull, petrel”
- kwenedē n. “Elf”
- kwentā n. “tale”
- kwentrō n. “narrator, reciter, minstrel”
- kwessē n. “feather”
- kwetta n. “word”
- kwingā n. “bow (for shooting)”
- kyul(u)mā n. “mast” see tyulmā
- la- pref. “no, not, negative prefix”
- labdā n. “licking up (food or drink), gluttonous eating”
- lāda adj. “flat”
- lai- pref. “*many”
- laibē n. “ointment”
- laikā adj. “keen, sharp, acute”
- laikwā adj. “fresh”
- laire n. “long lay”
- lakra adj. “swift, rapid”
- #lamanǝ n.
- lambe n.
- la(n)srondo n. “hearer, listener, eavesdropper”
- lassē¹ n. “leaf”
- lassē² n. “ear”
- lassekwelēne n. “leaf-fading”
- #lastā- v.
- lătĭna adj. “flat (and wide)”
- lauka adj. “warm”
- laurē n. “light of the golden tree Laurelin”
- lebnā adj. “left behind”
- lepenar n. “week”
- lep(e)ne n. “five”
- lepti n.
- -lī suf. “partitive”
- lī n. “number”
- libda n. “soap”
- ligā n. “fine thread, spider filament”
- lindā adj. “sweet sounding”
- #lindē n. “*singing”
- #lindō n. “singer”
- liñwi n. “fish”
- lisge n. “reed”
- litse n. “sand”
- lokko n. “ringlet”
- londē n. “narrow path, strait, pass”
- lopō n. “rabbit”
- lopōtundu n. “rabbit hole”
- lubbu n. “a clumsy piece or lump”
- lugni adj. “blue”
- lungā adj. “heavy”
- -mā suf. “passive suffix, the result of a processs”
- mā n. “land”
- madlī n. “honey-eater”
- magā n. “hand”
- magnā adj. “skilled”
- magrā adj. “useful, fit, good (of things)”
- magyā n.
- mahtā- v. “to handle, stroke, feel; to deal with, wield, treat”
- māʒ n. “hand”
- maʒiti adj. “handy, skilled”
- maʒtā- v. “to handle, stroke, feel”
- maita- v. “to feed”
- makla n. “sword”
- maktā- v. “to fight”
- mālō n. “friend”
- mandale n.
- mandalē n.
- manō n. “departed spirit”
- mapā n. “hand”
- mardasē adv. “at home”
- mart adv. “homewards”
- mat- v. “to eat”
- matna n. “food”
- mauy- v. “need (impersonal)”
- mazgā adj. “soft, pliant”
- mazgē n. “dough”
- mazgō n. “sticky substance, mire”
- mbād- n. “judgement, sentence”
- mbakhā n. “article (for exchange), ware, thing”
- mbanda n. “duress, prison”
- mbandō n. “doomsman, judge”
- #mbar- v. “to dwell”
- ṃbárt- n.
- #mbundā adj. “snouted”
- mbundu n. “snout, nose; cape [of land]”
- me pron. “we (exclusive)”
- melā- v. “to love”
- -mē̆n suf. “instrumental, with (which)”
- metta n. “end”
- minitunda n. “isolated hill, tower”
- miniya adj. “single, distinct, unique”
- mitra adj. “small”
- -m(iy)ē suf. “-ing”
- mizdā adj. “wet”
- mizdē n.
- mōl n. “slave, thrall”
- mori adj. “black”
- mǭri n. “blackness, dark, night”
- morikwende n. “Dark-elf”
- morókō n. “bear”
- mrekyā adj. “wild, fierce”
- -nā suf. “adjective”
- nakma n. “jaw”
- nakse n. “tooth”
- nakt- n. “biting”
- narāka adj. “rushing, rapid, violent”
- narwā adj. “fiery red”
- ‽natsai n.
- nauthe n. “imagination”
- nāyǝ n. “lament”
- #ndagta- v.
- #ndak- v.
- ndākō n. “warrior, soldier”
- ndē̆- pref. “in, inside”
- ndǣr n. “bridegroom”
- ndḗro n. “bridegroom”
- ndeuna adj. “second”
- ndeuro n. “follower, successor”
- ndīse n. “bride”
- #-ndō suf. “agental suffix”
- ndorē n. “land, dwelling-place, region where certain people live”
- ndulla adj. “dark, dusky, obscure”
- ndulna adj. “secret”
- ndūne n. “west”
- ṇdūnē n. “sunset”
- -nē suf. “past suffix”
- nē adv. “was; then, ago”
- nĕ suf. “?genitive”
- negdē n.
- neinē n. “tear”
- neiniel- adj. “tearful”
- neiti adj. “moist, dewy”
- #nem- v. “to seem”
- nē̆n n. “water”
- nendā adj. “watery, wet”
- nengǝ n. “beak, nose”
- nenle n. “brook”
- neñrē n. “tear, weeping”
- neñwi n. “nose”
- nēthē n. “youth”
- nethrā adj. “young”
- ngalambe n. “barbarous speech”
- ñgolda adj. “wise”
- ñgolodō n. “gnome”
- ngolwina adj. “wise, learned in deep arts”
- ñgwalaraukō n.
- ni pron. “I”
- nī n. “woman”
- nībe n. “front, face”
- nidwō n. “bolster, cushion”
- ninkwerita- v.
- ninkwi adj. “white, pale”
- ninkwitā- v. “to make white (or pale), whiten”
- nī̆s n. “woman”
- ñol- n. “smell”
- ñōle n. “odour”
- ñōn- n. “idea, thought”
- not- v. “to count”
- nūrā adj. “deep”
- nut- v. “to tie”
- nyadrō n. “rat”
- ṇ̃gwā̆le n. “torture”
- ṇ̃kwalē n. “death agony”
- oiyā adj. “everlasting”
- oktā n. “strife, war”
- olro- v. “to dream”
- olsa- v. “to dream”
- ōmata- v. “to eat away, devour, corrode”
- oññol- n. “strong smell”
- onrō n.
- ontā́ro n. “begetter, parent”
- orku n. “goblin”
- ornē n. “(high) tree”
- orta- v. “to rise”
- ortā- v. “to raise”
- ortur- v. “master, conquer”
- panda ?
- panō n. “plank, fixed board (especially in a floor)”
- pantā adj. “open”
- parkā adj. “dry”
- parmā n. “book”
- pathmā n. “level place, sward”
- pathnā adj. “smooth”
- patnā adj. “wide”
- pē n. “mouth, lips”
- peltakse n. “pivot”
- pheren n. “beech-tree”
- philínkē n.
- phoroti adj. “right or north”
- phuine n. “night, deep shadow, nightshade”
- poikā adj. “clean, pure”
- pori n. “flour, meal”
- -r suf. “plural verb”
- rāba adj. “wild, untamed”
- ragnā adj. “crooked”
- rakmē n. “fathom”
- rāmā n. “wing”
- rāmalē n. “pinion, great wing (of an eagle)”
- rambā n. “wall”
- ramna n. “wing (horn), extended point at side”
- ramya- v. “to fly, sail; to wander”
- randā n. “cycle, age (100 Valian Years)”
- ranku n. “arm”
- ratā n. “path, track”
- rattā̆ n. “course, river-bed”
- rāu n. “lion”
- reddā n. “‘sown’, sown field, acre”
- rīgē n. “crown”
- rimbā adj. “frequent, numerous”
- rimbē n. “crowd, host”
- rinki n. “flourish, quick stroke”
- risse- n. “a ravine”
- rista- v. “cut”
- -rō suf.
- rǭda n. “cave”
- rokkō n. “swift horse”
- ronyō n. “‘chaser’, hound of chase”
- rundā n. “rough piece of wood”
- #runya n. “spoor, track, footprint”
- ruskā adj. “brown”
- sāba n. “*juice”
- sagmā n. “poison”
- sagrā adj. “bitter”
- salakwē n. “*grass”
- sambē n. “*chamber”
- sangā n. “throng” see stangā
- sarnā n. “of stone”
- settā adj. “first”
- sī̆/sē̆ pron. “she”
- silimā adj. “silver, shining white”
- silimē n. “light of Silpion, †silver”
- sirya- v. “to flow smoothly”
- skala n. “fish”
- skalnā adj. “veiled, hidden, shadowed, shady”
- skarnā adj. “wounded”
- skarwē n. “wound”
- skelmā n. “skin, fell”
- skelnā adj. “naked”
- skelta- v. “to strip”
- skorā- v. “look out for, expect, wait for”
- skyapat- n. “shoe”
- slaiwā adj. “sickly, sick, ill”
- slignē n. “spider, spider’s web, cobweb”
- slindā adj.
- slindi adj. “fine, delicate”
- slingē n. “spider, spider’s web, cobweb” see slignē
- slinyā adj. “lean, thin, meagre”
- slīwē n. “sickness”
- smāgā n. “soil, stain”
- smagla n. and adj. “stain; stained”
- smaldā n. “gold (as metal)”
- smalinā adj. “yellow”
- smalu n. “pollen, yellow powder”
- smalwā adj. “fallow, pale”
- soglā ?
- solos n. “surf”
- spāna n. “cloud”
- spangā n. “beard”
- sparā- v. “hunt, pursue”
- spindē n. “tress, braid of hair”
- spinē n. “larch”
- -stā suf. “-ing”
- stabnē n. “wooden post”
- stabnō n. “carpenter, wright, builder”
- stabrō n. “carpenter, wright, builder”
- stalga adj. “stalwart, steady, firm”
- stalgondō n. “hero, dauntless man”
- stalrā adj. “steep, falling steeply (of river)”
- stambē n. “room, chamber”
- stangā n. “throng, crowd, press”
- stankā n. “cleft, split”
- starāna adj. “stiff, hard”
- stegrā ?
- sū̆/sō̆ pron. “masc., he”
- suglu n. “goblet”
- sukmā n. “drinking-vessel”
- swanda n. “sponge, fungus”
- swesta- v. “to puff”
- syadā n.
- syadnā adj. “compact, compressed”
- syadsē n. “cleft, gash”
- syadta n. “axe-stroke”
- syalmā n. “shell, conch, horn of Ulmo”
- syandā n. “a throng, crowd”
- syandō n. “cleaver, sword, hewer”
- syatsela n. “broadsword-blade, axe-blade”
- -t suf. “dual verb”
- -tā suf. “causatives from adjectives”
- ta pron. “impersonal 3rd pl.; pronominal stem”
- tad adv. “thither”
- taʒna adj. “*high”
- taikā adj. “steep, tall, deep”
- tainā adj. “long”
- takmā n. “thing for fixing”
- taksē n. “nail, pin”
- tāl n. “foot”
- talam n. “floor, ground; ‘flet’, platform”
- talat- v. “slip down”
- talgarta n. “high boot”
- talkō n. “craftsmen, wright”
- talmā n. “foundation, basis, root”
- talrunya n. “sole of foot”
- talt adv. “downwards”
- tambā- v. “to knock”
- tamrō n. “woodpecker, knocker”
- tāna adj. “*high”
- tanka adj. “firm”
- tankāta- v. “to make firm”
- tankla n. “brooch, clasp, pin”
- tānniq n.
- tanō n. “craftsman, smith”
- tārā adj. “lofty”
- targā adj. “tough, stiff”
- tārī n. “queen”
- tarkā n.
- tār(ō) n. “king”
- tatalat- v. “totter, keep on slipping”
- tatharē n. “willow-tree”
- taurā adj. “masterful, mighty”
- taurē n. “great wood, forest”
- tawar n. “wood (material)”
- tawārē̆ n. “dryad, spirit of woods (f.)”
- tawārō̆ n. “dryad, spirit of woods (m.)”
- te pron. “personal 3rd pl.”
- teʒē n. “path, course, line, direction, way”
- tekla n. “pen”
- tekmā n. “writing, grammar”
- tekmē n. “letter, symbol, writing”
- tekna n. “a letter”
- télesā n. “rear”
- telmē̆ n. “hood, covering”
- telu- v. “to roof in”
- telumē n. “vault, heaven”
- telumēhtǝ n. “canopy”
- tēñe n. “line, row”
- tēra adj. “straight, right”
- terēn(ē) adj. “slender”
- terēwā adj. “piercing, keen”
- ters- n. “fine pierced hole”
- thā adv. “then, next”
- thārō n. “saviour”
- thaurēnā adj. “*fenced”
- thausā adj. “foul, evil-smelling, putrid”
- #thelese n. “*sister”
- thērē n. “look, face, expression, countenance”
- thindi adj. “pallid, grey, wan”
- tinmē n. “spark, glint”
- *tirnō̆ n. “watcher”
- tiukā adj. “thick, fat”
- tiukō n. “thigh”
- tollo n. “island”
- tōp- v. “to roof”
- torōmā n. “[unglossed]”
- tū n. “strength”
- tubnā adj. “deep”
- tūgu n. “muscle, sinew; vigour, physical strength”
- tui- v. “to grow fat, swell‽”
- tuilē n. “spring (time)”
- tuilelindō n. “spring-singer, swallow”
- tuimā n. “a sprout, bud”
- tul- v.
- tulku n. “support, prop”
- tultā- v. “make come”
- tulukmē n. “support, prop”
- tulyā- v. “to send hither”
- tumbu n. “deep valley under or among hills”
- tundā adj. “tall”
- tundu¹ n. “hill, mound”
- tundu² n. “hole”
- tungā adj. “taut, tight; resonant (of strings)”
- tupsē n. “thatch”
- tūrē n. “mastery, victory”
- tūrō suf. “master, victor, lord”
- turumā n. “shield”
- turumbē n. “shield”
- tussā n. “bush”
- tyalangando n. “harp-player, harper”
- tyalyā- v. “to play”
- tyulmā n. “mast”
- tyulussē n. “poplar-tree”
- ūbanō n. “monster”
- ubrā adj. “abundant”
- uklaina adj. “wicked”
- ulda n. “torrent, mountain stream”
- ulgundō n. “monster, deformed and hideous creature”
- ulyā- v. “it is raining”
- ūmanā adj. “wicked”
- ungwē n. “gloom”
- us(u)kwē n. “reek”
- vaiā n. “sea”
- vaianer n. “sailor”
- wahsē n. “stain”
- wahtā- v. “to soil, stain”
- wahtē n. “a stain”
- waʒrā adj. “soiled, dirty”
- wān n. “goose”
- wannā adj. “departed, dead”
- wanōrō n. “one of kin”
- wanta- v. “to depart, die”
- wanwē n. “death”
- wath n.
- wāyā n. “envelope”
- -wē suf. “abstract suffix”
- we pron. “we (inclusive)”
- wedā n. “bond”
- wǣdē n. “bond, troth, compact, oath”
- wedtā n. and vb. “contract”
- wegō suf. “man; warrior”
- wegtē n. “manhood”
- weʒē n. “manhood, vigour”
- wen- n. “girl”
- wilwā n. “air, lower air”
- wínda- v. “fade”
- windı̯ā adj. “pale blue”
- wingē n. “foam, crest of wave, crest”
- winyē n. “evening”
- wō̆- pref. “together”
- -ya suf. “adjectival suffix”
- -yā suf. “causatives from verbs”
- yāba n. “fruit”
- yābā̆-sūka n. “fruit drink, cider”
- yagō n. “gulf”
- yagwē n. “ravine, cleft, gulf”
- yakta- n. “neck”
- yantā n. “yoke”
- yat adv. “away, back there; ago”
- yatmā n.
- yatta prep. “across”
- yē prep. “at”
- yend n. “daughter”
- yenpanta adj. “aged, long-lived”
- yenrinde n. “year”
- yondō n. “son”
- yu conj.