3.84 Worm

3.83 Fly (n)

3.82 Bee

3.811 Spider

3.81 Insect

ᴱQ. malo n. “moth”

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. malo “moth” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from primitive ᴱ✶[mal]wǝ under the early root ᴱ√MALA “crush, squeeze, pulp” (QL/58). It had a plural malwi, and in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was given the stem form of malu-.

3.79 to Hunt

ᴹQ. fafarra- vb. “*to keep on hunting”

A frequentative form of ᴹQ. fara- appearing in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/112), hences meaning something like “*to keep on hunting”. It replaced an archaic form †papharra-.

3.75 Deer

S. aras n. “deer, hart, *stag”

A word in the name Cabed-en-Aras “Deer’s Leap” (S/224; UT/150). Its primitive form ✶aras(sō) was translated “hart” (PE21/82), so this word probably refers to a male deer.

3.77 Elephant

3.72 Lion

Q. rá (ráv-) n. “lion”

An archaic word for “lion” mentioned in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the 1950s, versus more common Q. rauro (PE19/99, 104).

3.71 Wolf

ᴹQ. húna- n. “to howl”

The deleted verb ᴹQ. hūna- “howl” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the deleted root ᴹ√ÑO, replacing ñōna- “groan” (EtyAC/ÑŌ²).

3.65 Fish