Early Quenya
nielluin
proper name. Bee of Azure, Blue Bee, Sirius
Changes
- Nielluin → Helluin “Blue Bee” ✧ LT1/200
Cognates
- G. Niothluimi “the Bee of Azure” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nielluin
Variations
- Niellúnë ✧ LT1A/Nielluin
- Niellune ✧ PME/065
- Niellŭne ✧ QL/065
Name of Sirius in the earliest Lost Tales, glossed “Bee of Azure” or “Blue Bee” (LT1/182, 200), also appearing as Niellune (QL/65, PME/65). The name is a combination of the roots nier “honey bee” and lúne “blue”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Nielluin). In the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa, there was a variant form Nierninwa using ninwa for “blue” instead (QL/65, PME/65).