alanessë

alanessë

alanessë, see alenessë

alanessë

noun. nicotiana, pipeweed, nicotiana, pipeweed, *tobacco

A Quenya word appearing in notes on Words, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s as alenesse or alanesse “nicotiana, pipeweed [✱tobacco]”, assembled from ala- “plant, grow” and (primitive?) ✶nes- “sweet smelling” (PE17/100). I prefer alanesse as it is more compatible with the etymology Tolkien gave for S. galenas “pipeweed”.

Cognates

• S. galenas “pipeweed, nicotiana, *tobacco” ✧ PE17/100

Elements

Word	Gloss
ala-	“to plant, grow, to grow (of plants) [intr. and trans.], plant; *to thrive, flourish (of other creatures)”
nes-	“sweet smelling”
-ssë	“abstract noun”

Variations

• alenesse ✧ PE17/100
• alanesse ✧ PE17/100

alenessë

nicotiana, pipeweed

alenessë, also alanessë, noun "nicotiana, pipeweed" (tobacco) (PE17:100)

alenessë

noun. nicotiana, pipeweed