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Q. morë (mori-) adj. and n. “dark, black; darkness, night” (Category: Dark, Murky)

Q. morë (mori-), adj. and n. “dark, black; darkness, [ᴹQ.] blackness, [Q.] night” (Category: Dark, Murky)

A word meaning both “dark” and “black” in various compounds, sometimes also functioning as a noun “darkness”. It was derived from primitive ✶mori based on the root √MOR (Let/382).

Conceptual Development: This word has a long history in Tolkien’s languages. It first appeared as ᴱQ. {mōre >>} mōri “night” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s from the early root ᴱ√MORO (QL/62), also appearing as mōre “night” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/63). The word mōre was used as “darkness” in the Oilima Markirya poem written around 1930 (MC/214).

In The Etymologies of the 1930s there were two distinct forms: noun ᴹQ. móre “blackness, dark, night” from primitive ᴹ✶mǭri and adjective ᴹQ. more “blackness, dark, night” from primitive from primitive ᴹ✶mori (Ety/MOR; EtyAC/MOR), though the adjective prefix mori- was frequently translated “dark” in contemporaneous compounds: ᴹQ. Morimando “Dark Mando”, ᴹQ. Moriqendi “Dark Elves”, etc. In later writings, the forms with long ó were no longer used, though whether this was intentional or a coincidence is unclear.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would mainly use more as an adjective with the sense “dark”, reserving for the colour “black” the word morna instead. For the noun form, I’d use mornië, but I sometimes use mori- or móri- for “night” in compounds as the time of darkness.

References ✧ Let/382; PE17/110; PM/384; VT49/24

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#Mori- stem “darkness” ✧ PM/384
#Mori- stem   ✧ VT49/24
#mori- stem “black/night” ✧ PE17/110

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mori > more [mori] > [more] ✧ Let/382

ᴹQ. more (mori-) adj. “black, dark” (Category: Black)

See Q. morë for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/MOR ✧ “black”

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ᴹ✶mori > more [mori] > [more] ✧ Ety/MOR

ᴹQ. móre (móri-) n. “blackness, dark, night” (Category: Dark, Murky)

See Q. morë for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/MOR ✧ “blackness, dark, night”

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ᴹ✶mǭri > móre [mǭri] > [mǭre] > [mōre] ✧ Ety/MOR

ᴱQ. móre (móri-) n. and adj. “night, darkness; black, dark” (Category: Dark, Murky)

See Q. morë for discussion.

References ✧ LT1A/Mornië; MC/214, 221; PE16/60, 62, 64, 72, 74, 76-77; PME/63; QL/62

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móren nominative   ✧ PE16/64
moorin nominative plural   ✧ PE16/72; PE16/77
morin nominative plural “dark” ✧ PE16/62
mórin nominative plural   ✧ PE16/64; PE16/76
moori plural   ✧ PE16/77
móri plural “black” ✧ MC/221
móri plural   ✧ PE16/74
mōri stem   ✧ PME/63
mōri- stem   ✧ QL/62

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ᴱ√MORO > mōri [mōrī] > [mōri] ✧ QL/62
ᴱ√MORO > mōre [mōri] > [mōre] ✧ QL/62