Early Quenya
ailuvin
feminine name. Lake Foam
Cognates
- G. Ailwing “Lake Foam” ✧ GL/17
Elements
Word Gloss ailo “lake, pool” winge “(blowing) foam, spindrift, froth, scud, spray; wave”
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A Qenya equivalent of G. Elwing, more obviously related to the archaic form of that name G. †Ailwing, appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s (GL/17). Tolkien indicated that its stem form as Ailuving-. Assuming it has the same meaning as its Gnomish equivalent, it is probably a compound of ailo “lake” and some form of winge “foam”. The Quenya form of this name did not appear in later writings.