Quenya 

cuiviénen

place name. Water of Awakening

The lake where the Elves first awoke (S/48), a compound of cuivië “awakening” and nén “water” (SA/cuivië, nen).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, the name appeared as a plural: ᴱQ. Koivie-néni “Waters of Awakening” (LT1/85). In The Lays of Beleriand, the name was changed to singular ᴱQ. Cuiviénen (LB/23). It keep this form in most later writings, sometimes written with a “C” and sometimes with a “K”, as in ᴹQ. Kuiviénen (LR/168, Ety/KUY).

Cognates

  • S. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië

Elements

WordGloss
cuivië“awakening”
nén“water, water, [ᴱQ.] river”

Variations

  • Kuiviénen ✧ MR/071; MR/160; MRI/Kuiviénen; WJI/Cuiviénen; WJI/Koivië-néni
Quenya [LT1I/Cuiviénen; MR/071; MR/160; MRI/Kuiviénen; S/048; SA/cuivië; SA/nen; SI/Cuiviénen; SMI/Cuiviénen; TII/Cuiviénen; UTI/Cuiviénen; WJI/Cuiviénen; WJI/Koivië-néni] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Coivienéni

coivienéni

#Coivienéni place-name, "Qenya" form of Cuiviénen, the Waters of Awakening (VT14:5)

cuivië

noun. life

cuivië

awakening

cuivië noun "awakening" (early "Qenya" coivië, q.v., but this word Tolkien later used = *"life"). In Cuiviénen, "Water of Awakening" (SA:cuivië, SA:nen, KUY; spelt with a k_ in the Etymologies). Somewhat surprisingly, cuivië is used to mean "life" in cuivie-lancassë ("k"), literally 'on the brink of life' ("of a perilous situation in which one is likely to fall into death") (VT42:8)_ The form coivië is used for "life" elsewhere.

cuivië

noun. awakening

A word for “awakening”, most notably an element in the word Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” (S/48). It was derived from the root √KUY (Ety/KUY). In a few places it appeared as kuive instead (PE17/68; Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: The earliest form for “Waters of Awakening” was ᴱQ. Koivie-néni (LT1/85), and ᴱQ. koivie was glossed as “awakening” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/48). It was glossed “liveliness” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, however, and ᴱQ. qîvie was “awakening” (GL/29).

Element in

  • Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië
  • Q. Cuivienyarna “Legend of the Awakening [of the Quendi]” ✧ WJ/420

Elements

WordGloss
KUY“awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”
-vë“abstract noun, adverb”

Variations

  • kuive ✧ PE17/068
  • cuivië ✧ SA/cuivië
  • Cuivie ✧ WJ/420
Quenya [PE17/068; SA/cuivië; WJ/420] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cuivë

awakening

cuivë ("k")noun "awakening" (KUY)

cuivë

noun. awakening

coivië

life

coivië _("k")_noun "life" (coivierya, *"his/her life", VT49:41, 42). In early material, the word is glossed "awakening" instead (LT1:257; in LotR-style Quenya cuivië, as in Cuiviénen)

coivië

noun. life, life, [ᴱQ.] liveliness; awakening

The usual word for “life” in Tolkien’s later writings based on the root √KOY (NM/84, 119; VT49/42), in one place appearing with the variant koive (PE17/68). In another place Tolkien instead used kuivie for “life” in the phrase kuivie-lankasse “on the brink of life”, reflecting Tolkien’s ongoing vacillation between √KOY and √KUY as the root for life.

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. koivie was “awakening” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/48) as reflected in the name ᴱQ. Koivie-néni “Waters of Awakening” from this period (QL/48), but the word was glossed “liveliness” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/29). The noun for “life, being alive” was ᴹQ. kuile in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY), but was usually coivie in Tolkien’s writings from the 1950s and 60s, as noted above.

Neo-Quenya: I prefer √KOY as the root for “life” for purposes of Neo-Eldarin, so I’d use coivie as the noun “life, liveliness”, and use cuivië for “awakening” as seen in the later form of the name Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” (S/48).

Derivations

  • KOY “*live, have life, [ᴹ√] live, have life”

Element in

Variations

  • koive ✧ PE17/068
  • koivie ✧ PE17/068
  • kuivie ✧ VT42/08
Quenya [NM/084; NM/119; PE17/068; VT42/08; VT49/42] Group: Eldamo. Published by

coivë

noun. life

cuilë

life, being alive

cuilë ("k")noun "life, being alive" (KUY)

coi

life

coi ("k")"life" (LT1:257; in Tolkien's later Quenya cuilë)

cuiviénen

Cuiviénen

The Quenya name Cuiviénen (cuivië "awakening" + nen "water") means "water of awakening".[source?]

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Sindarin 

echui

noun. awakening

Sindarin [Ety/366, S/429] Group: SINDICT. Published by

echui

noun. awakening

A noun for “awakening”, most notably in Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” (SA/cuivië, LR/406). It appeared as N. echui(w) “awakening” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶et-kuiwē under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: The earliest name for the “Waters of Awakening” was G. Nenin a Gwivros from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, and in that document G. cwivros “awakening” appeared as a noun form of G. cwivra- “awaken (intr.)” (GL/29). ᴱN. {cuibros >>} cuivros “awakening” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141) before the word became echui(w) in The Etymologies of the 1930s, as noted above.

Derivations

  • KUY “awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”

Element in

  • S. echuir “early Spring, (lit.) stirring”
  • ᴺS. mornechui “coffee”
  • S. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië
Sindarin [SA/cuivië] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nen echui

place name. Water of Awakening

Lake by which the Elves first awoke, a combination of nen “water” and echui “awakening”, corresponding to its more commonly used Quenya name Q. Cuiviénen (SA/cuivië).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this lake was first named G. Nenin a Gwivros (GL/29), but appeared as ᴱN. Cuinlimfin in the Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s (LB/23). In notes associated with the Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, it became N. Nen Echui (LR/406), a name that also appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/KUY). In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien considered using Nenechui or Echuinen as an Elvish name of Mirrormere (TI/184), but later gave that lake the Sindarin name Nen Cenedril (RS/466).

Cognates

  • Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië

Elements

WordGloss
nen“water; lake, pool; (lesser) river, water; lake, pool; (lesser) river, [ᴱN.] stream”
echui“awakening”
Sindarin [SA/cuivië] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cuil

life

cuil (i guil, o chuil), no distinct pl. form except with article (i chuil)

cuil

life

(i guil, o chuil), no distinct pl. form except with article (i chuil)

echui

awakening

echui (echuiw). No distinct pl. form. Coll. pl. echuiwath.

echui

awakening

(echuiw). No distinct pl. form. Coll. pl. echuiwath.

Noldorin 

cuil

noun. life

Noldorin [Ety/366] Group: SINDICT. Published by

cuil

noun. life, life, [G.] lifetime

A noun for “life” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: This word dates back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where Tolkien clarified that G. cuil “life” was “usually [the] quality of being alive, but [was] also used = lifetime” (GL/27). ᴱN. cuil “life” also appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141).

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. kuile “life, being alive” ✧ Ety/KUY

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KUY > cuil[kujle] > [kuile] > [kuil]✧ Ety/KUY

echui

noun. awakening

Noldorin [Ety/366, S/429] Group: SINDICT. Published by

echuiw

noun. awakening

Noldorin [Ety/366, S/429] Group: SINDICT. Published by

echui(w)

noun. awakening

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. kuivie “awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶et-kuiwē “awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY
    • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Element in

  • N. echuir “early Spring, (lit.) stirring”
  • N. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶et-kuiwē > echui(w)[etkuiwē] > [ekkuiwē] > [ekkuiwe] > [ekkʰuiwe] > [exxuiwe] > [exxuiw] > [exxui] > [exui]✧ Ety/KUY

nen echui

place name. Water of Awakening

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Kuiviénen “Waters of Awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY; LRI/Nen-Echui; LR/406

Variations

  • Nen-Echui ✧ Ety/KUY; LRI/Nen-Echui
  • Nenechui/Echuinen ✧ TI/184
Noldorin [Ety/KUY; LR/406; LRI/Nen-Echui; TI/184; TII/Nen Echui] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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Qenya 

kuiviénen

place name. Waters of Awakening

Changes

  • CuiviénenKuiviénen ✧ SM/086
  • KuiviénenCuiviénen ✧ SMI/Cuiviénen

Cognates

  • N. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY; LRI/Nen-Echui; LR/406

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
kuivie“awakening”
nén“water”

Variations

  • Koiviénen ✧ PE21/33
  • Cuiviénen ✧ SM/084; SM/086
Qenya [Ety/KUY; LR/168; LR/212; LR/216; LR/406; LRI/Kuiviénen; LRI/Nen-Echui; PE21/33; PE21/36; SM/084; SM/086; SMI/Cuiviénen; VT27/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kuivie

noun. awakening

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KUY > kuive[kuiwe] > [kuive]✧ Ety/KUY

Variations

  • kuive ✧ Ety/KUY
  • kuivië ✧ SD/047
Qenya [Ety/KUY; SD/047] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kuive

noun. awakening

Middle Primitive Elvish

et-kuiwē

noun. awakening

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Derivatives

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KUY] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

cwivros

noun. awakening

Cognates

  • Eq. qíva “awake” ✧ GL/29
  • Eq. koivie “awakening; liveliness” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni

Element in

Variations

  • cuivros ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni
Gnomish [GL/29; LT1A/Koivië-néni] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nenin a gwivros

place name. Waters of Awakening

Cognates

  • Eq. Koivie-néni “Waters of Awakening” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni
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Early Noldorin

cuivros

noun. awakening

Changes

  • cuibroscuivros ✧ PE13/141

Variations

  • cuibros ✧ PE13/141 (cuibros)
Early Noldorin [PE13/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cuil

noun. life

Cognates

  • Eq. koire “life” ✧ PE13/141

Derivations

Element in

  • En. cuilvorn “lifetime” ✧ PE13/141
  • En. urguil “lifeless” ✧ PE13/156
  • En. uchuil “lifeless” ✧ PE13/155 (uchuil)
Early Noldorin [PE13/141; PE13/155; PE13/156] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

cuiviénen

place name. Water of Awakening

Cognates

Early Quenya [LB/023; LBI/Cuiviénen; SM/012] Group: Eldamo. Published by

koivie-néni

place name. Waters of Awakening

Changes

  • Koivië-NéniCuiviénen ✧ LBI/Cuiviénen
  • Koivië-néniKuiviénen ✧ SMI/Cuiviénen
  • Koivië-néniKuiviénen ✧ WJI/Koivië-néni

Cognates

Elements

WordGloss
koivie“awakening; liveliness”
nen“river, water”

Variations

  • koivie·nēni ✧ GG/15
  • Koivië-Néni ✧ LBI/Cuiviénen
  • Koivienéni ✧ LT1/085
  • Koivië-néni ✧ LT1/115; LT1/232; LT1A/Koivië-néni; LT1A/Neni Erúmëar; LT1I/Koivië-néni; SMI/Cuiviénen; WJI/Koivië-néni
Early Quenya [GG/15; LBI/Cuiviénen; LT1/085; LT1/115; LT1/232; LT1A/Koivië-néni; LT1A/Neni Erúmëar; LT1I/Koivië-néni; SMI/Cuiviénen; WJI/Koivië-néni] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qívie

noun. awakening

Variations

  • qîvie ✧ GL/29
Early Quenya [GL/29] Group: Eldamo. Published by

koi

noun. life

koile

noun. life

koire

noun. life

Cognates

  • En. cuil “life” ✧ PE13/141
  • G. cuil “life, lifetime” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KOẎO “have life” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni; QL/048
  • ᴱ✶koile ✧ PE13/141

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√KOYO > koi[koðʲ] > [koj] > [koi]✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni
ᴱ✶koile > koile[koðʲlē] > [koðʲle] > [kojle] > [koile]✧ PE13/141
ᴱ√KOẎO > koire[koðʲlē] > [koðʲle] > [kojle] > [koile]✧ QL/048

Variations

  • koi ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni; QL/048
  • koirë ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni
  • koile ✧ PE13/141
  • koito ✧ PE16/060
Early Quenya [LT1A/Koivië-néni; PE13/141; PE16/060; QL/048] Group: Eldamo. Published by

laume

noun. life

loa

noun. life

A noun for “life” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LAWA, apparently an alternate name of ᴱQ. Vána (QL/52).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LAWA “*life (esp. plants)” ✧ QL/052

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√LAW̯A > Loa[lawā] > [lawa] > [laua] > [loa]✧ QL/052

Variations

  • Loa ✧ QL/052
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