Nъmл (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing.) In QL nъmл ‘West’ is derived from root NUHU ‘bow, bend down, stoop, sink’ other words are nъta- ‘stoop, sink’, nъmeta-, numenda- ‘get low (of the Sun)’, nъmлa ‘in the West’. Gnomish num- ‘sink, descend’, nъmin ‘in the West’, Auranъmin ‘sunset’, numbros ‘incline, slope’, nunthi ‘downward’. Cf. Falassл Nъmлa, Faskala-nъmen, Sirnъmen.
Nъri Name of Fui Nienna: ‘Nъri who sighs’, p. 66. This is given without translation in QL under root NURU, with nъru- ‘growl (of dogs), grumble’, nur ‘growl, complaint’. In Gnomish she is Nurnil, with associated words nur- ‘growl, grumble’, nurn ‘lament’, nurna- ‘bewail, lament’.
Ф (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing: ‘the Sea’, pp. 84–5.) See Уnen.
Oarni See Уnen.
Olofantur See Lуrien, Fanturi.
Olуrл Mallл For Olуrл see Lуrien. mallл ‘street’ appears in QL under root MALA ‘crush’ (see Balrog); the Gnomish form is mal ‘paved way, road’, and the equivalent of Olуrл Mallл is Malmaurien (see Murmuran).
Уnen The root ’o’o in QL has derivatives Ф, a poetic word, ‘the sea’, oar ‘child of the sea, merchild’, oaris (-ts), oarwen ‘mermaid’, and Ossл the name уwen (antecedent of Уnen in the text, pp. 61, 79) also appears, and evidently means the same as oarwen (for -wen see Urwen). The later form Uinen in the Tales is apparently Gnomish; GL Uґnen ‘Lady of the Sea’. changed late to Uinen. A form Oinen also occurs (p. 211).
In the Valar name-list Уnen is called also Solуrл (see Solosimpi) and Ui Oarista. This latter appears in QL, with the definition ‘Queen of the Mermaids’, together with Uin ‘the primeval whale’ but how these relate to the other names is obscure.
Orc QL ork (orq-) ‘monster, demon’. GL orc ‘goblin’, plural orcin, orchoth (hoth ‘folk, people’, hothri ‘army’, hothron ‘captain’).
Oromл In QL Oromл ‘son of Aulл’ is placed under a root ORO that is distinct (apparently because of the nature of the consonant) from ORO (with meaning of ‘steepness, rising’) given under Kalormл; but these roots are said to be ‘much confused’. This second root yields уrл ‘the dawn, Sunrise, East’, уrлa ‘of the dawn, Eastern’, orontл, oronto ‘Sunrise’, osto ‘the gates of the Sun’, and Ostor ‘the East, the Sun when she issues from her white gates’. It is noted that Oromл should perhaps be placed under the other root, but there is no indication of the connections of the name. In The Hiding of Valinor (p. 214) Oromл has a particular knowledge of the East of the world. His name in Gnomish is Orma; and in the Valar name-list he is also called Raustar, for which see Meбssл.
Oronto (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, ‘East’.) See Oromл.
Orossi In the list of fays referred to under Nandini the Orossi are ‘fays of the mountains’, and this name is thus a derivative from the root ORO seen in Kalormл.
Ossл See Уnen. His Gnomish name is Otha or Oth.
Palisor See Palъrien. Palъrien An early entry in QL gives Palurin ‘the wide world’ under a root PALA, whose derivatives have a common general sense of ‘flatness’, among them palis ‘sward, lawn’, whence no doubt Palisor. In GL the corresponding name is Belaurin, B(a)laurin; but she is also called Bladorwen ‘the wide earth, the world and its plants and fruits, Mother Earth’ (related words are blant ‘flat, open, expansive, candid’, blath ‘floor’, bladwen ‘a plain’). See Yavanna.
Poldуrлa Not in QL, but GL gives serval corresponding forms: Polodweg="Tulcus" (polod ‘power, might, authority’); polodrin ‘mighty, also in poetic form Poldurin or Poldorin which is especially used as epithet of Tulcus; Q. Poldуrлa.
Qalmл-Tбri The root is QALA ‘die’, whence qalmл ‘death’, qalin ‘dead’, and other words of the same meaning. Tбri is from TAHA: tв ‘high’, tбra ‘lofty’, tбri ‘queen’, etc.; Gnomish dв ‘high’, dara ‘lofty’, daroth ‘summit, peak’. Cf. Taniquetil.
Qalvanda ‘The Road of Death’ (p. 213). See Qalmл-Tбri. The second element is from root VAHA: whence vв past tense ‘went’, vand- ‘way, path’, vandl ‘staff’, vanwa ‘gone on the road, past, over, lost’ (as in Mar Vanwa Tyaliйva). Cf. Vansamнrin.