Isilyali ve ta. Sisse, yane Elenya yo Anarya amalassie nin; sie, síra mauya nin kare rimbe kardali. Ente, síra meryale: *karaitiekoali avalatyaine. Náve ankaraite anda lúmen nwaruva aiquen.

+Robert Reynolds manima meryale síra?

+Tamas Ferencz Síra *Epeharmure [Presidents' (dual) Day, (lit.) before-sitters' day, presiders' day < epe + har + mo +u +re]: enyalien *epeharmu Washington yo Lincoln.

Mana *hentópanyat?

+James Coish 'my eyelids'

+Robert Reynolds (I am not that sure about that literal translation of president TBH :)

+Tamas Ferencz [I'm not that sure about it, either. I think that in this case, something more specific than a general "leader" title like káno is appropriate/necessary (for instance, to distinguish presidents from other leaders like state governors). However, since the title "president" in any language may well have not existed in Middle Earth, some inherently NQ construct seems indicated. I also contemplated ?*ingaharmo along similar lines, but I'm quite open to less literal suggestions.]

+Robert Reynolds I don't know yet. Perhaps something involving min "first" (cf eteminya). Or using OPO/PO in the sense of fore(-) (I feel it's better suited than epe). Or maybe I can come to peace with harmo (minharmo?).

[elfling ID#28614] suggested sondamo for "president". Since then it was not challenged :-)

+Ицхак Пензев well, hereby it is challenged:)

To achieve the literal meaning “chairperson”, I would start with a later word for “seat, chair”: direct affixing yields *hanwamo < khadmā + ​-mo, *handamo < *khadnā + ​-mo or reconstructing yields *hanwo < *khadmō with literal meaning “sit-person; sitter”.

Now that I look at the etymology of har-​ < khad-​, **harmo seems phonologically unlikely. Prefixing then yields *epe/*opohanwo, *epe/*opohanwamo (I cannot figure out what †pkʰ or †pk would have become other than that they don’t occur, so no syncope). This may be a way to distinguish “chairperson” and ”president” when necessary. Also, other affixes than epe-​/opo-​ and ​-mo are certainly plausible: *harquen < khad-​ + ​-quen, *hanwaquen, *handaquen, for instance.

Less literal renderings are still very much on the table, of course: *minkanwo, *minkanwamo, *minkarquen, arta.