A word for “plumage” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. pilin “feather” (QL/74).
Early Quenya
pilin
noun. feather; arrow
pilinqasilla
noun. nodding plume
pilintele
noun. plumage
piliningwe súyer nalla qanta
*the airs are so full
pilna
noun. arrow
A word for a “nodding plume” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, a combination of ᴱQ. pilin “feather” and ᴱQ. qasilla “tuft, nodding spray, tassel, plume” (QL/74, 76; PME/74). It perhaps described a type of plant, as an earlier iteration of Q. pilinehtar.