ehtelë

issue of water, spring

ehtelë noun "issue of water, spring" (SA:kel-, KEL, ET). Compare "Qenya" ectelë ("k")"fountain" (LT1:257, LT2:338; in LotR-style Quenya ehtelë).

ehtelë

noun. spring, issue of water

A noun glossed “spring, issue of water”, derived from the primitive form ✶et-kelē, literally “✱out-flow”, but in ancient times the [tk] was transposed to [kt] giving ektelē (SA/kel; Ety/KEL). In Quenya, this kt became ht [xt].

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s, this word appeared as ᴱQ. ektele “fountain”, a variant of ᴱQ. kektele (QL/35). This word was mentioned in a number of other documents from this period, including the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/31), the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/46), and the Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin (PE15/23). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s it appeared as ᴱQ. ehtil (PE13/136, 158). In The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared as ᴹQ. ehtele with the gloss and derivation given above (Ety/ET, KEL).

Cognates

• S. eithel “source, spring, well, source, spring, well, [N.] issue of water, fountain” ✧ SA/kel

Derivations

• ✶et-kelē “spring, issue of water” ✧ SA/kel

Element in

• ᴺQ. laucehtelë “hot spring”

ectelë

fountain

ectelë _("k")noun"fountain", also cectelë ("k")(LT1:257, LT2:338; in LotR-style Quenya _ehtelë)

cectelë

fountain

cectelë ("k")noun "fountain" (LT1:257, LT2:338. In LotR-style Quenya rather ehtelë.)

tuilë

spring, spring-time

tuilë noun "spring, spring-time", also used = "dayspring, early morn" (VT39:7, TUY), in the calendar of Imladris a precisely defined period of 54 days, but also used without any exact definition. Cf. tuilérë, q.v. (Appendix D) - In early "Qenya", the word tuilë is glossed "Spring", but it is said that it literally refers to a "budding", also used collectively for "buds, new shoots, fresh green" (LT1:269). Cf. tuima in Tolkien's later Quenya.

tuilë

noun. spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green

Cognates

• S. ethuil “spring, spring [the season]” ✧ LotR/1107
• S. tuil “spring”
• Van. twílë “spring” ✧ PE19/107

Derivations

• √TUY “sprout, bud” ✧ VT39/07

Element in

• Q. tuilérë “*spring-day”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√TUJU > tuile	[tuile]	✧ VT39/07

Variations

• tuile ✧ PE19/107; VT39/07

celure

noun. fountain

capalinda

spring of water

capalinda _("k")_noun "spring of water" (LT1:257; ehtelë may be preferred in LotR-style Quenya)