lú

noun. 24 hours, day

lúle

noun. blue stone, sapphire

A word appearing as ᴱQ. lūle “blue stone, sapphire” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, related to ᴱQ. lūne “(deep) blue” (QL/57).

Neo-Quenya: I would update this word to ᴺQ. luilë for purposes of Neo-Quenya, since the later word and root for “blue” was luinë and √LUY.

lúne

adjective. blue, deep blue

lúnelinqe

adjective. flowing; *blue-water

lúre

noun. dark weather, bad weather

This word appeared as ᴱQ. lūre “dark weather” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√LUVU; it had a stem form of {lūri- >>} lūre- (QL/57). It also appeared as lūre in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/57).

Neo-Quenya: A similar root √LUB “shadow, darkness” appeared in Tolkien’s later writings, so I think this word can be salvaged as ᴺQ. lúrë from primitive ✱lubrĭ. If so, it would be a rare example of the ancient br not undergoing metathesis to rb, but instead vocalizing before the following voiced consonant: ✱lubrĭ > luβre > lūre.

lúrea

adjective. overcast, dark [of weather]

ᴱQ. lūrea “dark, overcast” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as an adjectival form of ᴱQ. lūre “dark weather” (QL/57); the same form was mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “overcast, dark” (PME/57).

Neo-Quenya: I think this word might be salvaged as ᴺQ. lúrëa; see the entry on ᴺQ. lúrë for a possible revised etymology.

lúkima

adjective. slimy

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “slimy”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. lúke “slime” (QL/56).

lúnelinqe vear

in the flowing sea

The seventh line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/213). The first word is the compound lúnelinqe of the words lúne “blue” and linqe, the latter either a noun “stream” or an adjective “flowing”. The second word is an inflection vear of the noun vea; Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter suggest it might be an idiomatic use of the dative declension (PE16/83), but I think it might be a variant of the locative: the r-locative.

Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:

> lúne-linqe vea-r = “✱blue-flowing stream-in”

lúke

noun. slime

A noun in both the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s glossed “slime”, derived from the root ᴱ√LUKU (QL/56). The root √LUK had other meanings in Tolkien’s later writings, and there is no obvious way to salvage this word.

lúlea

adjective. sapphirine

An adjectival form of appearing as ᴱQ. lūle “blue stone, sapphire” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/57).

lúvin(a)

adjective. dark, overcast

An adjective for “dark, overcast” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LUVU (QL/57).

lutu-

verb. to flow, float, sail

lúme

noun. time

lúmen

noun. year, period

lúta-

verb. to have time pass

lúto

noun. flood

lukta-

verb. to have time pass

lúmia

adjective. pertaining to time, temporal

lúsina

adjective. warm, glowing (of things); affectionate, hearty (of people)

kelu-

verb. to flow

velunte

noun. sail

velu

noun. sail

ninwa

adjective. blue

ninda

adjective. blue

ninya

adjective. blue

tala

noun. sail

qinga

noun. bow

aurin

adjective. warm

laiwa

adjective. pale

lin

noun. snake

A word for “snake” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with a stem form of {linge- >>} ling- (QL/54).

lingo

noun. snake

lóto-

verb. to bloom

níva

adjective. pale

oqi

noun. snake

tirin

place name. Tower

Name of Ingil’s tower in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/5), it is simply tirin “tower” used as a name (LT1A/Kortirion).

latta

noun. year