Early Quenya
nénu
noun. yellow water lily
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
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.