wendíne

feminine name. Wendíne

Another name for Nielíqi in an early name list (PE14/15), probably a combination of wen(di) “maiden” and the diminutive suffix -íne(a), as suggested by the editors (Wynne, Gilson, Hostetter, Welden, Smith; footnote #22).

wendelin

feminine name. Wendelin

Qenya name for the mother of Tinúviel (later S. Melian) in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/115), an elaboration of wen(di) “maid”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Wendelin).

Conceptual Development: This name initially appeared in the alternate form Tindriel of unclear meaning (LT1/106, 131).

wenda

noun. brook

A noun given as ’wenda “brook” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√GWEÐE (QL/103).

wente

noun. brook, small river

A noun given the cognate of G. gwent “brook, small river” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the root ᴱ√gu̯et (GL/46). Tolkien seems to have revised the primitive form to u̯et and the Qenya form to vente.

wen(di)

noun. maid, girl, maiden

wendele

noun. maidenhood

wende

noun. maiden

wenga

adjective. *male

A Quenya word (adjective?) in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s given as a cognate G. gweg “man, male of the Elda” (GL/44), perhaps meaning “✱male”.

anwe or aiqale elta súrut lunte aiwendon lossiattea

*went on the heights driven by the wind a ship like a bird with a blossom-white neck

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).

anî

noun. woman

ava-

verb. to depart

en(we)

noun. name

ere-

verb. to go

kalwa

adjective. fair, beautiful

laika

adjective. green

laiqa

adjective. green

laiqasse

noun. greenness

mella

noun. girl

A word for “girl” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√MELE “love”, but Tolkien marked it with a “?” (QL/60). The same word did appear in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa, however (PME/60).

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.

nî

noun. woman

tie-

verb. to go

vente

noun. brook, small river