aiwë

noun. (small) bird

A noun meaning “(small) bird” (SA/lin¹, Ety/AIWĒ), appearing in Radagast’s Quenya name Aiwendil “Lover of Birds” (UT/401). It was derived from primitive ᴹ✶aiwē like its Sindarin cognate aew (Ety/AIWĒ).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, ᴱQ. aiwe appeared as the cognate of G. aigli “bird” (GL/17), but in Early Noldorin notes from the 1920s, the cognate of ᴱN. aiw “bird” was given as ᴱQ. oive (PE13/136, 158) or oi(we) (PE13/132). A similar form oio (stem oiw-) appeared in notes on the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/12). In The Etymologies from the mid-1930s, the form ᴹQ. aiwe was restored (Ety/AIWĒ), and this is the source of the derivation given above.

aiwë

(small) bird

aiwë noun "(small) bird" (AIWĒ, SA:lin #1); Aiwendil "Lover of Birds" (UT:401)

aiwendil

masculine name. Lover of Birds

The Quenya name of Radagast (UT/393). Christopher Tolkien translated the name as “Lover of Birds” (UT/401), a compound of aiwë “bird” and -(n)dil “-lover”.

Aiwenor

birdland

Aiwenor, Aiwenorë (read *Aiwenórë?) place-name "Birdland" = lower air (AIWĒ)

aiwë

aiwe

Aiwe derives from the Elvish root AIWĒ-.

aiwenorë

Aiwenórë

In Quenya, Aiwe means "(small) bird", and nórë means "land" or "country".

aiwestë

noun. bird’s nest

A neologism for “nest” coined by Tamas Ferencz, an elaboration of Q. aiwë “bird”.

wilin

bird

wilin noun "bird" (LT1:273; if this "Qenya" word is to be used in LotR-style Quenya, it must not be confused with the 1st pers. aorist of the verb wil-.)