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Early Quenya

nen

noun. river, water

Cognates

  • G. nen(n) “water; river” ✧ LT1A/Neni Erúmëar

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NENE “flow” ✧ LT1/248; LT1A/Neni Erúmëar; QL/065
  • ᴱ√NEÐE ✧ QL/066

Element in

  • Eq. Koivie-néni “Waters of Awakening” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni; LT1A/Neni Erúmëar
  • Eq. Neni Erúmear “Outermost Waters” ✧ LT1A/Neni Erúmëar

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NENE > nen[nen]✧ LT1/248
ᴱ√NENE > nen[nen]✧ QL/065
ᴱ√NEŘE > nen[nenð] > [nend] > [nen]✧ QL/066

Variations

  • nen ✧ LT1/248; LT1A/Neni Erúmëar; PE14/110; PME/065; QL/065; QL/066
  • nēn ✧ PE14/043; PE14/072; PE15/76; PE15/78; PE16/138
  • Nen ✧ PE15/14
Early Quenya [LT1/248; LT1A/Koivië-néni; LT1A/Neni Erúmëar; PE14/043; PE14/072; PE14/110; PE15/14; PE15/76; PE15/78; PE16/138; PME/065; PME/066; QL/065; QL/066] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sindi

noun. river

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “river” derived from the root ᴱ√SIŘI [SIÐI] (QL/84). The same word appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/84).

Cognates

  • G. sîr “river” ✧ LT1A/Sirion

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SIÐI “flow” ✧ LT1A/Sirion; QL/084

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SIŘI > sindi[sinðī] > [sinði] > [sindi]✧ QL/084

Variations

  • -sindi ✧ LT1A/Kelusindi
Early Quenya [LT1A/Kelusindi; LT1A/Sirion; PME/084; QL/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by