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.
Early Quenya
nenuvar
collective name. Water [Fay]
Cognates
- G. nendil “waterfay”
Variations
- nenuvar ✧ PE14/010
nenyuvar
noun. pool of lilies
nénuvar
noun. pool of lilies
Variations
- nēnuvar ✧ PME/065; QL/065
- nenyuvar ✧ QL/065
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”.
Variations
- ektelarni ✧ PE14/010
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.
Variations
- aïlior ✧ PE14/010
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.
Variations
- capalini ✧ PE14/010
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”.