Eldamo : Middle Quenya : malle

ᴹQ. malle n. “street, (made or stone) road” (Category: Street)

ᴹQ. mallë, n. “street, (made or stone) road” (Category: Street): ᴺQ. !ratta “street; course, river-bed”; ᴱQ. vasta “road”

A word for “street” appearing in Tolkien’s writings of the 1910s-40s. ᴱQ. malle “street” first appeared [albiet marked with “?”] in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√MALA¹ “crush, squeeze, pulp” (QL/58), and in early names from this period such as ᴱQ. Olóre Malle “Path of Dreams” (LT1/18) and ᴱQ. Kúne Malle “Road of Arches” (PE13/105). ᴱQ. malle “street” reappeared in several charts of Qenya Declensions from the 1920s (PE16/112-115) and in contemporaneous Early Qenya Word-lists (PE16/143).

ᴹQ. malle was more fully defined as “made road, stone-road, street” in Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/24) and also appeared in some contemporaneous declension charts (PE21/44-45). In The Etymologies from around 1397, ᴹQ. malle “street” was derived from the root ᴹ√MBAL (Ety/MBAL). This word also appeared with the gloss “road” in various iterations of the ᴹQ. Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s, in the phrases ᴹQ. malle téna lende númenna “a road [once] went straight westward” and ᴹQ. ilya sí maller raikar “now all roads (are) bent” (LR/47, 56; SD/310). There is no sign of this word in the 1950s and 60s, but that could be a coincidence.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word for constructed roads, particularly those that are paved or are city streets.

References ✧ Ety/MBAL; LR/47, 56; PE21/24, 44-45; SD/310

Glosses

“made road, stone-road, street” ✧ PE21/24
“road” ✧ LR/47; LR/56; SD/310
“street” ✧ Ety/MBAL; PE21/44

Variations

malle ✧ Ety/MBAL; LR/47; LR/56; PE21/24; PE21/44; SD/310

Inflections

mallende	ablative		✧ PE21/44
mallillon	ablative plural		✧ PE21/45
malle	accusative		✧ PE21/44
malli	accusative plural		✧ PE21/45
mallello	allative		✧ PE21/44
mallinden	allative plural		✧ PE21/45
mallello	comitative		✧ PE21/44
mallíle	comitative plural		✧ PE21/45
maller	dative		✧ PE21/44
mallir	dative plural		✧ PE21/45
malleo	genitive		✧ PE21/44
mallion	genitive plural		✧ PE21/45
mallenen	instrumental		✧ PE21/44
mallínen	instrumental plural		✧ PE21/45
mallesse	locative		✧ PE21/44
mallissen	locative plural		✧ PE21/45
mallen	nominative		✧ PE21/44
mallin	nominative plural		✧ PE21/24; PE21/45
†mallelin	nominative plural		✧ PE21/45
malleka	partitive-plural		✧ PE21/45
maller	plural; er-plural	“roads”	✧ LR/47; LR/56; SD/310
malleva	possessive		✧ PE21/44
mallíva	possessive plural		✧ PE21/45
mallendon	similative		✧ PE21/44
mallindon	similative plural		✧ PE21/45

Element In

ᴹQ. Tinwe-malle “Star-street”
ᴺQ. !aramallë “side-street”
ᴹQ. ilya sí maller raikar “now all roads (are) bent” ✧ LR/47; LR/56; SD/310
ᴹQ. malle téna lende númenna “a road [once] went straight westward” ✧ LR/47; LR/56; SD/310

Derivations

< ᴹ√MBAL “?crush, pound” ✧ Ety/MBAL

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√MBAL > malle

[mballe] > [malle]

✧ Ety/MBAL

ᴱQ. malle n. “street, road” (Category: Street)

See ᴹQ. malle for discussion.

References ✧ LT1A/Olórë Mallë; PE13/105; PE16/112-115, 143; QL/58, 90

Glosses

“road” ✧ PE13/105
“street” ✧ LT1A/Olórë Mallë; PE16/113; PE16/143; QL/58 (‽malle)

Variations

mallë ✧ LT1A/Olórë Mallë; PE13/105; PE16/112; PE16/113; PE16/143; QL/90; QL/58 (‽malle)

Changes

mallehta >> mallíkut ✧ PE16/114
mallíkut >> malluhto ✧ PE16/114

Inflections

malleldo	ablative	✧ PE16/113
mallello	ablative	✧ PE16/113
[mallell]ut	ablative dual	✧ PE16/114
†mallellot	ablative dual	✧ PE16/114
mallillon	ablative plural	✧ PE16/115
†mallílon	ablative plural	✧ PE16/115
malle	accusative	✧ PE16/112; PE16/113
†malleli	accusative plural	✧ PE16/112
malli	accusative plural	✧ PE16/112
mallea	adjectival	✧ PE16/113
mallíte	adjectival	✧ PE16/113
mallĕva	adjectival	✧ PE16/113
mallenta	allative	✧ PE16/113
[mallent]as	allative dual	✧ PE16/114
†mallentat	allative dual	✧ PE16/114
mallinta(n)	allative plural	✧ PE16/115
mallíko	comitative	✧ PE16/113
malluhto	comitative dual	✧ PE16/114
mallíkut	comitative dual	✧ PE16/114
mallinko	comitative plural	✧ PE16/115
maller	dative	✧ PE16/112; PE16/113
†mallere	dative	✧ PE16/113
mallur	dative dual	✧ PE16/114
†[mall]elir	dative plural	✧ PE16/112
†mallelir	dative plural	✧ PE16/115
mallir	dative plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
mallet	dual	✧ PE16/112
mallet	dual	✧ PE16/114
malleo	genitive	✧ PE16/112; PE16/113
†mallu	genitive	✧ PE16/112
mallu	genitive dual	✧ PE16/114
†[mall]elion	genitive plural	✧ PE16/112
†mallelion	genitive plural	✧ PE16/115
mallion	genitive plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
mallin	instrumental; short-instrumental	✧ PE16/113
mallínen	instrumental	✧ PE16/112; PE16/113
[mall]ínent	instrumental dual	✧ PE16/114
†mallímet	instrumental dual	✧ PE16/114
mallelínen	instrumental plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
†mallínen	instrumental plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
mallesse	locative	✧ PE16/113
mallesset	locative dual	✧ PE16/114
mallissen	locative plural	✧ PE16/115
†mallísen	locative plural	✧ PE16/115
mallen	nominative	✧ PE16/112; PE16/113
mallent	nominative dual	✧ PE16/112
mallent	nominative dual	✧ PE16/114
†mallet	nominative dual	✧ PE16/112
†mallelin	nominative plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
mallin	nominative plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
mallíka	partitive	✧ PE16/112
mallehta	partitive dual	✧ PE16/114
†malleli	plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
malli	plural	✧ PE16/112; PE16/115
mallendon	similative	✧ PE16/113
mallindon	similative plural	✧ PE16/115
mallĕ-	stem	✧ QL/58

Element In

ᴱQ. Kúne Malle “Road of Arches” ✧ PE13/105
ᴱQ. Olóre Malle “Path of Dreams” ✧ LT1A/Olórë Mallë
ᴱQ. Teamalle “High St.” ✧ QL/90

Cognates

G. mal¹ “paved way, road” ✧ LT1A/Olórë Mallë

Derivations

< ᴱ√MALA¹ “crush, squeeze, pulp” ✧ LT1A/Olórë Mallë; QL/58

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√MALA¹ > ‽malle

[mallē] > [malle]

✧ QL/58