Qenya
falanyel
proper name. *Beach Singer
Cognates
- ᴹT. Fallinel “Teleri” ✧ Ety/PHAL
Elements
Word Gloss falasse “beach” nyello “singer”
nyello
noun. singer
Derivations
- ᴹ√NYEL “ring, sing, give out a sweet sound” ✧ Ety/NYEL
Element in
- ᴹQ. Falanyel “*Beach Singer”
- ᴹQ. Solonyeldi “*Surf Singers”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NYEL > nyello [njello] ✧ Ety/NYEL
Another name for the Teleri in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/PHAL), apparently a combination of falasse “beach” and nyello “singer”, hearkening back to the earlier name for the third tribe, the ᴱQ. Solosimpe “Shore Piper”.