Ocean surrounding Middle-earth in a very early map, translated by Christopher Tolkien as “Outermost Waters” (LT1/84-5), a combination of the plural of nen “water” and the plural of erúmea “outermost”.
Early Quenya
nen
noun. nostril
nen
noun. river, water
neni erúmear
place name. Outermost Waters
nendo
noun. water mead
A noun given as ᴱQ. nendo “water mead” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the root ᴱ√NEŘE [NEÐE] (QL/66). It was also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the same form and gloss (PME/66). In the Qenya Lexicon, Tolkien indicated it might instead be derived from the root ᴱ√NESE, though how is not entirely clear.
Neo-Quenya: I think this word might be salvaged as ᴺQ. nendo “water mead, ✱watered plain” for purposes of Neo-Quenya but reimagined as a derivative of √NEN “water”. This can replace ᴹQ. nanda of the same meaning from The Etymologies (Ety/NAD), since in later writings the various Q. nand- forms were exclusively used with the sense “valley”.
nenda
adjective. wet
nenuvar
collective name. Water [Fay]
Name for a type of Water Fay in Tolkien’s “Creatures of the Earth” from the 1910s (PE14/10). It might be related to nénuvar “pool of lilies”.
nenyu
noun. yellow water-lily
nenyuvar
noun. pool of lilies
nénu
noun. yellow water lily
A word for a “yellow water lily” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√NENE “flow” that was the basis for river and water words (QL/65; PME/65). In the Qenya Lexicon it had a variant form nenyu.
cuiviénen
place name. Water of Awakening
nénuvar
noun. pool of lilies
A word for a “pool of lilies” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. nēnu “yellow water lily” (QL/65; PME/65). In the Qenya Lexicon it had a variant form nenyuvar based on the variant “lily” word nenyu.
men
noun. nose, beak
The word ᴱQ. men (mem-) “nose, beak” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√MEME (QL/61).
Neo-Quenya: In later writings, Tolkien used ᴹQ. nengwe for “nose”, but I think it might be worth adapting this word as ᴺQ. mén (mem-) “beak”, with a long vowel to help distinguish it from Q. men “way”. This derivation is similar to ᴹQ. kén (kem-) “soil, earth” < ᴹ√KEM from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/KEM); hat-tip to Röandil for suggesting this comparison and the form mén.
koivie-néni
place name. Waters of Awakening
nienóri
feminine name. Nienóri
ailin
noun. lake, pool
ailo
noun. lake, pool
amillion
noun. February
aïlior
collective name. Water [Fay]
Name for a type of Water Fay in Tolkien’s “Creatures of the Earth” from the 1910s (PE14/10). Its etymology is unclear.
capalini
collective name. Water [Fay]
Name for a type of Water Fay in Tolkien’s “Creatures of the Earth” from the 1910s (PE14/10). Its etymology is unclear.
dachen
adjective. slain
ektelarni
collective name. Water [Fay]
Name for a type of Water Fay in Tolkien’s “Creatures of the Earth” from the 1910s (PE14/10). Its etymology is unclear, but its initial element might be related to ektele “fountain”.
linqea
adjective. watery
A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “watery”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. linqe “water” (QL/54).
liqin(a)
adjective. wet
lunde tiqilindea
proper name. February
A name for the month of February in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/56), a combination of lunde “month” and tiqilindea “thawing”.
mak-
verb. to slay
nete-
verb. to get
nie
noun. tear
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).
siri-
verb. flow
sovalwaris
noun. February
súma
noun. nostril
wenda
noun. brook
A noun given as ’wenda “brook” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√GWEÐE (QL/103).
úqa
adjective. wet
A word appearing as ᴱQ. nen “nostril” in several documents from the 1920s (PE14/72; PE15/75; PE16/113). Its plural form nengi made it clear its stem was neng- (PE14/72; PE16/112). Its (Early Qenya) dual nenqi was also “usually used of the nose or both nostrils of one person” (PE15/75).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, the word for “nostril” was ᴱQ. sūma under the early root ᴱ√SUHYU “breath, exhale”, where its dual sunwi “nostrils” could also be used as “nose” (QL/86). The word súma “nostril” was mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa along with its dual sunwi (PME/86). Under the same early root, Tolkien had ᴱQ. súne as a more ordinary word for “nose”, specifically a nose of a human (QL/86; PME/86). ᴱQ. súne “nose” survived in the documents from the 1920s (PE14/76; PE15/75; PE16/136), but “nostril” became ᴱQ. nen (neng-) as noted above.
See the entry on ᴹQ. nengwe for a discussion of later “nose” words from the 1930s.
Neo-Quenya: Since ᴹ√NEÑ-WI was the base for the word ᴹQ. nengwe “nose” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/NEÑ-WI), ᴺQ. nen (neng-) “nostril” might remain viable for purposes of Neo-Quenya as a derivative of the shorter form of this root: ᴹ√NEÑ. However, in later Quenya grammar its dual would most likely become ✱nengu, and I would use the dual only for “(pair of) nostrils” and not “nose”.