Qenya
uile
noun. long trailing plant
Cognates
- N. uil “seaweed” ✧ Ety/UY
Derivations
- ᴹ√UY “*long trailing plant” ✧ Ety/UY
Element in
- ᴹQ. earuile “seaweed” ✧ Ety/UY
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√UY > uile [uile] ✧ Ety/UY
nén
noun. water
Cognates
- N. nen “water” ✧ Ety/NEN
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Kuiviénen “Waters of Awakening”
- ᴹQ. niksi koitar nenesse “fish live in water” ✧ PE22/125
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NEN > nén [nēn] ✧ Ety/NEN Variations
- nēn ✧ PE21/19; PE21/23; PE21/58 (nēn)
A noun under the root ᴹ√UY in The Etymologies of the 1930s that Tolkien said was a “long trailing plant, especially seaweed”, though he did give a separate word ᴹQ. earuile for “seaweed” (Ety/UY).