Vinitharya

The date of Vinitharya's birth appears only in The History of Middle-earth volume XII, The Peoples of Middle-earth. It cannot therefore be considered completely reliable.

Vinitharya is evidently derived from Gothic, but our only direct clue to its intended meaning comes from a brief note in which Tolkien compared it to Elvish Rómendacil (that is, 'East-victor'). In fact Vinit-harya (spelt in numerous different ways) was a real Gothic name, but doesn't quite mean 'East-victor'; rather it translates more directly as 'Wend warrior'. The Wend here refers to a people, or more accurately a range of different Slavic peoples across history. In this context, the Wends of history apparently represent a comparable people in Middle-earth, with the most obvious candidate being the Easterlings defeated by Vinitharya's grandfather Rómendacil II.

Based on Tolkien's comparison to Rómendacil, we might take 'warrior' to imply 'victor', so the whole name Vinitharya would, in this particular context, mean something like 'victor over the Easterlings'. Vinitharya was therefore effectively named after his grandfather, though using the language of the Northmen of Rhovanion (represented by Gothic) to render the Elvish name Rómendacil.