The Nandor spoke a Telerin dialect called Nandorin or Danian.After the split of the Nandor the west-Danian dialect evolved into Ossiriandeb (also Ossiriandic, Ossiriandrin or Ossiriandish and Laiquenderin or later Uialrin, Sîrrandrai and Lindellin) while East-Danian evolved into Leikvian or Silvan-Elvish (with dialects such as Galadhrin and Lam Tawaren).
Genealogy
- Primitive Quendian
- Common Eldarin
Wordlist
- alm - elm-tree
- Amroth - up-climber
- -as - group, host
- Beorn - man, warrior
- Bor - fist
- car - building, house
- Caras - moated settlement
- cogn - bow
- cwenda -Elf
- Dan - one who turned back
- Danas, Dani - followers of Dan, those who turned back
- Danitharo - saviour of the Dani
- don -place, land
- dóri -land, people
- duil- spring
- dunna - black
- ealc - swan
- eb -language, tongue
- edel, elda - elf
- el - lady, female ending
- enel - middle
- Eria -lonely
- fene - shape
- fin - slope, height
- Gal - growth
- Galad - tree
- Galion - descendant of growth
- Garma -wolf
- gof -fruit
- gol -light
- golas -foliage
- Golda - a Noldo
- gwind - girl
- hrassa -precipe
- ion - scion, descendant
- larm - elm tree
- Leg, leik - green
- Len - far, arrive
- Lindai, Lindi - Singers, Wood-Elves
- Linda, Lind - Singer, Wood-Elf
- Lindon - Place of song
- Lindóri - Singers, Wood-Elves
- Lóri - golden
- lygn - pale
- meord -fine rain
- nand - Valley
- Nel - bell
- Nî - woman
- Nim - white
- Nimrodel - lady of the white grotto
- on -man, male ending
- or - rise
- orgof - rising fruit
- Orgol - rising light
- Oro - Mountain, height
- Oron - tree
- ornar - forest
- rod - cave, grotto
- scella, sciella - shade, screen
- seld - daughter
- Snaes -spear-point
- spenna- cloud
- Swarn - crooked, corrupted
- telf - silver
- telfin - silvern, of silver
- Tharo - saviour
- Thran - vigorous
- Tôr - wood
- Urc - Orc pl. yrc
- Utum - deep
- vir -host, folk
Outer information
Tolkien's Nandorin languages seem to have been inspired mainly by anglo-saxon, gothic and maybe to some degree by old Greek.The Neo-Nandorin languages, made up the the ICE Authors, are however loosely based on Estonian vocabulary.