Laiquendi

green-elves

Laiquendi noun "Green-elves", not much used (translated from Sindarin Laegil, Laegelrim) (WJ:385, SA:quen-/quet-, LÁYAK; spelt "Laiqendi" in the latter source)

Laiquendi

noun. Green Elves

Green Elves

laiquendi

collective name. Green-elves

Name for the Nandor of Beleriand meaning “Green-elves” (S/96), a compound of laica “green” and the plural of Quendë “Elf”. In one place (WJ/385), Tolkien said this name was not much used.

Conceptual Development: The earliest form of this name was ᴹQ. Laiqeldar (SM/270), because at the time Tolkien used Eldar as a generic term for Elves. This version contained an earlier Quenya word for “green”: ᴹQ. laiqa. The name changed to ᴹQ. Laiqendi when Tolkien revised his naming scheme for Elves (LR/176, Ety/LÁYAK). The name retained this form into the published version of The Silmarillion, despite the change of ᴹQ. laiqa >> Q. laica (PE17/84), though later it could have derived the “qu” from the element Quendë.

Cognates

• S. Laegel “Green-elves” ✧ WJ/385; WJI/Laegel

Elements

Word	Gloss
laica	“green”
Quendë	“Elf, (lit.) One That Speaks”

Variations

• Laiqendi ✧ PE18/073

Nando

one who goes back on his word or decision

#Nando (1) pl. Nandor noun name of the Green-elves (Laiquendi). The primitive word ¤ndandō, whence Quenya Nando, implied "one who goes back on his word or decision", since the Nandor left the March from Cuiviénen to Aman. Adj. Nandorin. (WJ:412, VT48:32)

Nanar

green-elves, *danians

Nanar pl. noun "Green-elves, *Danians", sg. *Nana (DAN)

laegel

proper name. Green-elves

A Sindarin term for the Green Elves (WJ/385), a combination of laeg “green” and †Ell “Elf”.

Cognates

• Q. Laiquendi “Green-elves” ✧ WJ/385; WJI/Laegel

Elements

Word	Gloss
laeg	“fresh and green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), green, viridis, green (of leaves/herbiage), fresh”
Ell	“Elf”

ndandō

noun. one who goes back on his word or decision

Derivations

• √(N)DAN “back (again); retreat, go back, give way (as one advances), revert, back (again), [ᴹ√] backwards; [√] retreat, go back, give way (as one advances), revert” ✧ WJ/412

Derivatives

• Q. Nandor “Silvan Elves, (lit.) Those who go back” ✧ WJ/412
• S. Dân “*Green-elf” ✧ PE17/140; PE17/140

Element in

• ✶ndanyā

Variations

• ndand ✧ PE17/140

lhoebelidh

proper name. Green-elves

Noldorin equivalent of ᴹQ. Laiqendi “Green-elves” appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s, a combination of N. lhoeb “fresh” (cognate of ᴹQ. laiqa “green”) and the plural of N. Eledh “Elf” (Ety/LÁYAK). It also appeared in the variant form Lhoebenidh.

Conceptual Development: In an early form of this entry, it appeared as Lhebenidh or Lhebelidh (EtyAC/LÁYAK).

Changes

• Lhebenidh/Lhebelidh → Lhoebenidh/Lhoebelidh ✧ Ety/LÁYAK

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Laiqendi “Green-elves” ✧ Ety/LÁYAK

Variations

• Lhebenidh/Lhebelidh ✧ EtyAC/LÁYAK (Lhebenidh/Lhebelidh)