Source of the river Kelusindi in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/157), it seems to simply be kapalinda “spring of water” used as a name, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Kapalinda).
Early Quenya
kapalinda
noun. spring of water
Element in
- Eq. Kapalinda ✧ LT1A/Kapalinda
- Eq. Kapalindar
kapalinda
place name. Kapalinda
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s for a “spring of water”, derived from the root ᴱ√KAPA “leap, spring” (QL/45).