VoronwГ See Bronweg.
Vorotemnar For voro вverв™see Bronweg. Temnar must be from root TEME вieв™ of which no derivative words are listed in QL.
Wendelin This is not in QL, but GL gives Gwendeling (changed later to Gwedhiling) as the Gnomish name corresponding to Qenya Wendelin; вueen of the Woodland Elves, mother of TinГvielв™(the only occurrence of the name TinГviel in the dictionaries). The name must be related to Qenya wen вaid, girlв™and the Gnomish forms given under Urwen.
Wingildi See Wingilot.
Wingilot Under the root GWINGI/GWIGI in QL are wingГ вoam, spindriftв™ wingilot вoamflower, EГrendelв™ boatв™ and wingild- вymphв™(cf. Wingildi). For the element -lot see Lindelos.
ВВВВВGL has the entry: вi>Gwingalos or Gwingli=Lothwinga or Foamflower, the name of EГrendelв™ (Ioringliв™) boatв™also lothwing вoamflowerв™ gwing вavecrest, foamв™ and gwingil вoam-maiden (mermaid, one of the attendants of Uinen)’.
Wirilуmл See Gwerlum.
Wiruin See Gwerlum.
Yavanna In QL this name is given under the root YAVA, together with yavin ‘bears fruit’, yбva ‘fruit’, yбvan ‘harvest, autumn’. The Gnomish form is Ifon, Ivon, ‘especially in the combinations Ivon Belaurin, Ivon Cнmir, Ivon i · Vladorwen’ see Kйmi, Palъrien.
SHORT GLOSSARY OF OBSOLETE, ARCHAIC, AND RARE WORDS
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an if, 64, 140, 149, 155, 165, 180, 182, 189, 197, 208
arrassed covered with arras (rich figured tapestry), 17
astonied stunned, astonished, 116, 185
bason formerly a common spelling of basin, 164 etc.
bent open place covered with grass, 34
brakes thickets, 106
charger large dish, 191
clamant clamorous, noisy, 43
clomb old past tense of climb, 122
constellate formed into a constellation, 195
cools coolnesses, 74
corbel basket, 186
covetice (inordinate) desire, 117; covetousness, 146–7
eld old age, 59, 219, 228
fain gladly, 45, 150; disposed, desirous, 195; fain of well-pleased with, 117, 208
fane temple, 39, 43
fey 37. The old senses were ‘fated, approaching death; presaging death’. It seems very unlikely that the later sense ‘possessing or displaying magical, fairylike, or unearthly qualities’ (O.E.D. Supplement) was intended.
flittermice bats, 40
go move, in the phrase all the creatures that go 219
houseleek a fleshy plant that grows on the walls and roofs of houses, 95
inaureoled surrounded with a halo, 204 (the word is only recorded in the O.E.D. in a poem by Francis Thompson, 1897).
jacinth blue, 34
lampads 35. The word is only recorded in the O.E.D. (first used by Coleridge) of the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God in the Book of Revelation, iv. 5.
lets upon gives on to, opens on to, 210
lief gladly, willingly, 163; liever more gladly, more willingly, rather, 105, 163
lustihead vigour, 99
meed requital, 105
minished reduced, diminished, 150, 208
or…or either…or, 127, 192, 214
or yet apparently means ‘already’, 166
ousel blackbird, 47 (now spelt ouzel, in Ring-ouzel and other bird-names).
pleasance ‘A pleasure-ground, usually attached to a mansion; sometimes a secluded part of a garden, but more often a separate enclosure laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs…’ (O.E.D.) This sense is present in pleasa(u)nces 74, 116, but in rest and pleasance 69 the sense is ‘enjoyment, pleasure’ in nor did he have lack of pleasance 65 either meaning may be intended, but I think probably the former.
pled old past tense of plead, 167
plenilune the time of full moon, 205 (see Letters p. 310).
pricks (spurs his horse), rides fast, 114. Oromл pricks over the plain echoes the first line of The Faerie Queene, A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
recked troubled, cared, 179
rede counsel, advice, 141, 182, 217; plan, 180; redes counsels, 117
rondured (in golden-rondured) 35. Rondure ‘circle, rounded form’ rondured is not recorded.
ruth matter of sorrow, calamity, 185; distress, grief, 191; remorse, 194; in the greatest ruth was that to [the Valar] thereafter 209 the sense is unclear: ‘matter of sorrow or regret’, or possibly ‘harm, ill’.
saps deep diggings, 104
sate old past tense of sit, 58, 105, 153, 181, 190, 194
seamews seagulls, 124
selenites inhabitants of the Moon, 205
shallop 192. This word had precise applications to particular kinds of boat, but here apparently means ‘open boat propelled by oars and sail’.
share 34, 38. share = ploughshare, but used here of the blade of a scythe.
sledge-blows blows as of a sledge, a large heavy hammer, 78
sprent past participle of the lost verb sprenge ‘sprinkle, scatter’, 192
sprite(s) spirit(s), 71, 74, 95, 115, 191
suaded persuaded, 69, 163
trillups 108, trillaping 109. This word is not recorded in any dictionary available to me.
umbraged (in wide-umbraged) 34, 38. Umbraged ‘shaded, shadowed’, but here in the sense ‘shadowing’, ‘casting a shade’.
web(s) woven fabric, 58, 73, 95 (also used in senses ‘webbed feet’ 127, ‘cobwebs’ 77, etc.)
whickering 205 (whickering sparks). The verb whicker meant to laugh or titter, or of a horse to whinny, but the O.E.D. cites a line from Masefield the wall-top grasses whickered in the breeze, and the 1920 Supplement to the Dictionary gives a meaning ‘to make a hurtling sound’, with a single citation where the word is used of a thunderbol1t whickering through the sky. In the 1962 version of The Man in the Moon the word flickering occurs in this verse.