Subject: That sounds like a challenge!
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Posted on: 2019-11-22 10:28:30 UTC

Quenya: Tintóretecë. 'D' is not known as a first letter in any Quenya word, so I've substituted T (I do that myself when I need to). 'Tintore' is both TTR, and 'Heart-kindler', which is a decent word for doctor. 'Tece' is actually a verbal form of 'to write', so the whole comes out as something like '[D]TR who writes'.

Sindarin: It took a bit of wrangling, but I can give you Dîrathaegerthas, 'Man of healing and letters'. Okay, the T is a Th, but it's close enough. ^_^ (A shorter version is 'Dîrathaegirth', but I figured that final syllable was a bit embarassing in English.)

Adunaic: Adûnitîrbêth is 'west-kindler of words'. From a Numenorean perspective, the West is the land of health and immortality.

At this point I think I shall abandon the challenge; my best Valarin effort was about 14 syllables. So instead:

Valarin: Amanaišalmâchan, 'Unmarred Law'. Both health and song (the Valarin form of literature) are symptoms of the unmarred world.

Black Speech: Wait, I accept the challenge again! Durbaturuk means 'to rule the Orcs'; keeping them alive and telling them what to do sounds like a good route to that!

For bonus points: except for Sindarin, all of these can also be using 'doctor' to mean 'professor'. ^_^

hS

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