Unfortunately, Tolkien’s elves don’t have a notion of gender beyond male/female. Here’s a list of words that they do have. I’ve organized them by number. Gondorian’s plurals are often different, and they are in (G. parentheses). The dialect of Doriath often has slightly different words for things, and they will be marked with (D. parentheses). The Woodelven dialect is marked with (W. parentheses).
A quick set of definitions of the grammatical terms:
- Singular
- One [noun]
- Plural
- More than two [noun]s
- Dual
- Two [noun]s. This plural is only used in Doriath.
| Singular | Plural | Doriath-Dual |
|---|---|---|
Female (adjective) | ||
| inu | iny (D. inu) (G. ini) | — |
Woman | ||
| dî | dî | dist |
| dess | diss | dessad |
Girl | ||
| sell | sill | selled |
| iell | ill | ielled |
| gwend | gwind | gwenned |
Teen Girl | ||
| neth | nith | nethad |
Male (adjective) | ||
| anu | eny (D. enu) (G. eni) | — |
Man | ||
| dîr | dîr | dirth |
Boy | ||
| iôn | ŷn (G. iên) | iont |
| iond | ynd (G. iend) | ionnod |
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