nî

noun. woman

anî

noun. woman

nieriltasinwa

proper name. Unnumbered Tears

Qenya cognate of the battle of Nínin-Udathriol “Unnumbered Tears” in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/84). It initial element is the plural of nie “tear” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Nielluin). The remainder seems to be a combination of the negative prefix il- “un-” and the otherwise unattested adjective tasinwa “numbered”, likely related to tanta “number” (QL/90).

nie

noun. tear

nienaite

adjective. tearful

nion

noun. bee

hestani

noun. sister

hestanoini

noun. sister

heresse

noun. sister

A word for “sister” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with numerous variants: heresse, hesta(noi)ni, and hestaqin, all based on the early root ᴱ√HESE that was the basis for “brother” and “sister” words (QL/40). Of these Tolkien said heresse was the “ordinary word”, and it also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/40).

anai

noun. woman

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s form “woman” with variants anai and anî, a feminine form ᴱQ. anu “a male” (QL/31).

nyére

noun. grief

ner

noun. man, husband; warrior

nún

adverb. beneath

liqin(a)

adjective. wet

nekte

noun. honey

nyenye

noun. weeping

rána

noun. Moon

alma

noun. face

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “face, visage”, derived from the early root ᴱ√ALA “gaze”, but this word was deleted (QL/39). It also appeared with the gloss “face” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa, where it was not deleted (PM/39).

eru

adverb. once

hestaqin

noun. sister

ile

noun. honey

linqea

adjective. watery

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “watery”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. linqe “water” (QL/54).

nektele

noun. honeycomb

The word nektele “honeycomb” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s as an elaboration of ᴱQ. nekte “honey” (QL/65; PME/65).

Neo-Quenya: I’d update this word to ᴺQ. nehtelë “honeycomb” to be compatible with the later form Q. nehtë “honey” (PE19/91).

nenda

adjective. wet

notso

noun. damp

nyél

noun. woman

A word for “woman” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s with stem form nyel-, as indicated by its accusative nyela (PE16/135). Its etymology is unclear; Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson suggested it might be connected to the early root ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” or later root ᴹ√NYEL “ring, sing”, but these both feel like stretches to me.

piqis(se)

noun. grief

pulqe

noun. juice

síre

noun. stream

vasa

noun. juice

yéma

noun. face

A word for “face” appearing in Early Qenya Word-lists from the 1920s (PE16/136) along with a list of body parts from the same period (PE14/117). It is likely derived from the early root ᴱ√DYĒ whose derivatives have to do with “gaze” or “look at” (QL/105), as suggested by Patrick Wynne (VT49/21).

ú

preposition. beneath

úqa

adjective. wet