A rejected name for the Númeníoreans from the earliest version of the Fall of Númenor from 1930s (LR/12), a compound of lie “people” and númen “west”.
Qenya
númen
noun. west
núme
noun. west
númenya
adjective. western
lie-númen
proper name. Númenoreans
númenóre
place name. Westernesse
númen endorello isse sí vaia síra
westward of Middle-earth where now Ocean flows
andúne
noun. sunset
An adjectival form of ᴹQ. númen “west” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/RŌ).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. numenda “western” based on ᴱQ. nūme “west” (QL/68), an adjective that also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/68).