Eldamo : Quenya : -mo

Q. -mo suf. “agental suffix” (Category: Doer, Agent)

Q. -mo, suf. “agental suffix” (Category: Doer, Agent)

A suffix of which Tolkien said “the ending -mo often appeared in names or titles, sometimes with an agental significance” (WJ/400). It is based on the pronoun mo “(some)one”. This suffix is often specifically neuter, as in [ᴹQ.] nilmo “friend” vs. male and female [ᴹQ.] nildo and nilde (Ety/NIL).

Conceptual Development: The suffix ᴱQ. -mo appears all the way back in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s in words like ᴱQ. laulemo “inhabitant” and ᴱQ. qolimo “invalid” (QL/52, 78).

References ✧ MR/49; WJ/400

Ulmo “Pourer” had its form influenced by -mo ✧ WJ/400

Elements

mo	“one, anyone, someone, somebody”

Element In

ᴺQ. aimo “saint”
ᴺQ. !airimo “priest”
ᴺQ. !alamo “cultivator, grower”
ᴺQ. !alumo “leather-worker”
ᴺQ. !astamo “member”
ᴺQ. !cordamo “cleric”
ᴺQ. !epeharmo “president”
ᴺQ. !hyólamo “trumpeter”
ᴺQ. !lingwimo “fisherman”
ᴺQ. !nólemo “student”
ᴺQ. !ongolmo “geologist”
ᴺQ. !ongwemo “criminal, transgressor”
ᴺQ. !ostomo “citizen”
ᴺQ. !parmo “student, (lit.) learner”
ᴺQ. !quernamo “proselyte, convert”
ᴺQ. !tungwemo “tax-collector”
ᴺQ. !yulmo “drinker”
Q. astarmo “bystander; witness”
Q. asumo “friend at need, friend with shared interests, colleague”
Q. ciryamo “mariner”
Q. Curumo “*Skilled-one”
Q. enelmo “go-between, intervener, intermediary, mediator”
Q. Estelmo “*Hope-person”
Q. Herucalmo
Q. ingolmo “loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge”
Q. Írimon
Q. Irmo “Desirer”
Q. Isilmo
Q. larmo “listener (spy or scout)”
Q. Maitimo “Well-shaped One”
Q. námo¹ “person, somebody (unnamed)”
Q. Nólimon “*Learned One”
Q. nolmo “wise person”
Q. onótimo “*reckoner” ✧ MR/49
Q. #ormo “riser”
Q. Sarmo
Q. Súlimo “Lord of the Breath of Arda, (lit.) Breather”
Q. #tirmo “watcher”
Q. Ulmo “Pourer”
Q. vinimo “baby, little-one”
Q. vinyamo “youngster”