Sindarin 

lest

noun. girdle, girdle, *belt

An element in the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” for the magical barrier around Doriath (WJ/228).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would also use this word for “✱belt”.

lest

noun. girdle

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lest melian

proper name. Girdle of Melian

Name of the magical boundary that Melian placed around Doriath, translated “Girdle of Melian” (WJ/228). This name is combination of her name with the otherwise unattested noun lest “girdle”.

Conceptual Development: This name was first written as List Melian (WJ/228).

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lest

girdle

lest (boundary, fence), pl. list

lest

girdle

(boundary, fence), pl. list

Doriath

place name. Land of the Fence

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth.

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Doriath

Doriath

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth. The earlier name of Doriath, Eglador, probably means either "Land of the Forsaken" or "Land of the Elves"[source?] in Sindarin.

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Doriath

Doriath

topon.

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Doriath

noun. land of the fence

(n-)dôr (“land,dwelling”) + iâth (“fence”); genitival sequences with possessor or qualifier second in the later period became fixed compounds, as Dóriath; #probably reinterpreted by Tolkien from earlier ” land of the cave” < (n-)dôr (“land, dwelling-place”) + #i (sing or genitive article) + gath (“cavern”) [Etym. GATH-]

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Quenya 

lesta

noun. *girdle

An element in the name Q. Lestanórë for Doriath (WJ/369), untranslated but probably the cognate to S. lest “girdle” from the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” (WJ/228).

quilta

girdle, belt

quilta noun "girdle, belt" (QL:78); the same source also lists a verb qilti- (sic) "gird, encircle"; one could perhaps read *quilta- if this verb were to be adapted to Tolkiens later Quenya.

quilta

noun. belt, girdle

Lestanórë

doriath

Lestanórë place-name "Doriath", gen. Lestanórëo (WJ:369). If this name means the same as the Sindarin name Doriath, "Land of the Fence", #lesta ought to mean "fence" here (but it is obviously not a cognate of the Sindarin term iâth "fence").It may mean "girdle"; compare Sindarin Lest Melian as a name of the Girdle of Melian (WJ:XXX), suggesting*"Girdle-land" as the meaning of Lestanórë.

quiltaina

adjective. girdled, girt

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Primitive elvish

kwilit

root. belt, girdle

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English

Girdley Island

Girdley Island

David Salo suggests a possible Old Hobbitish etymology from *Gyrdlieg "girdle-island". As in Rushey, the ending -ey means "island" in Old Norse and is found in English islandnames (cf. Gurnsey).

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Early Primitive Elvish

qḷtḷ

root. *belt, girdle

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. qalta “girdled, girt” and ᴱQ. qilta “belt, girdle” (QL/78).

Neo-Eldarin: I think it worth positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KWILIT “belt, girdle” to preserve some of these Early Qenya words.

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Early Quenya

qilta

noun. belt, girdle

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qilta “girdle, belt” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QḶTḶ (QL/78). It also appeared with the gloss “belt” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/78).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would retain ᴺQ. quilta “belt” from a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWILIT, but for “girdle” I would use Q. lesta (WJ/369).

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qalta

adjective. girdled, girt

An adjective appearing as ᴱQ. qalta “girdled, girt” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QḶTḶ (QL/78). The vowel a indicates its primitive form had a long syllabic ḹ, which became al in Early Qenya (PE12/11).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would just use the passive participle ᴺQ. quiltaina of the verb quilta- “to gird, encircle”.

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