mel-

verb. love (as friend)

mel- vb. "love (as friend)" (MEL). Melinyes or melin sé "I love him" (VT49:21). LR:70 has melánë"I love", a doubtful form in Tolkien's later Quenya (melin occurs in later material).

mel-

verb. to love

melin

dear

melin adj. "dear" (MEL)

melmë

love

melmë noun "love" (MEL)

-më

suffix. abstract noun

-më (2) abstract suffix, as in melmë "love" (cf. the verb mel-), #cilmë "choice" (possibly implying a verb *cil- "to choose"). According to PE17:68, primitive -mē (and -wē) were endings used to derive nouns denoting "a single action", which may fit the meaning of cilmë (but melmë "love" would normally be something lasting rather than "a single action").

meles

love

meles, melessë noun "love" (LT1:262; rather melmë in Tolkien's later Quenya)

sonda

dear, fond

[sonda adj. "dear, fond" (VT46:15)]