linya

pool

linya noun "pool" (LIN1)

ailo

lake, pool

ailo noun "lake, pool" (LT2:339; Tolkien's later Quenya has ailin)

lóna

pool, mere

lóna (1) noun "pool, mere" (VT42:10). Variant of lón, lónë above?

nendë

pool

nendë (1) noun "pool" (NEN), "lake" (PE17:52)

nendë

noun. lake, lake, [ᴹQ.] pool

A word for “lake” (PE17/52) or “pool” (Ety/NEN), derived from the root √NEN “water”.

Conceptual Development: This word appeared in both The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/NEN) and notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/37) with the same basic meaning and derivation.

Derivations

• √NEN “water, water, [ᴱ√] flow” ✧ PE17/052

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√NEN > nende	[nende]	✧ PE17/052

Variations

• nende ✧ PE17/052

aelin

noun. lake, pool

ael

noun. lake, pool, mere

ael

noun. lake, pool

A noun for “lake, pool”, appearing as an element in Aeluin “✱Blue Lake” and Aelin-uial “Meres of Twilight” (S/114, 122). The latter name has its plural form aelin = “meres, ✱pools, lakes”.

Conceptual Development: This word had a long history as a cognate to Q. ailin; although the Quenya form was quite stable, the Gnomish/Noldorin/Sindarin forms went through a number of changes. The earliest iterations of this word appeared in in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as G. ail “a lake, pool” or G. ailion “lake” (GL/17). In the Gnomish Lexicon Slips the latter became {ailin >>} eilin “pool” (PE13/113). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s Tolkien had ᴱN. ailin “lake” with plural form ailiniath from Old Noldorin oilin (PE13/136, 158).

In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien had N. oel “pool, lake” derived from primitive ᴹ✶ailin, a combination of the root ᴹ√AY and ᴹ√LIN (Ety/AY, LIN¹). In that document, its plural form was oelin (Ety/AY), where the plural preserved the final n that was lost in the singular. In The Etymologies it was an element of N. Oelinuial “Pools of Twilight” (Ety/AY), but in the contemporaneous narratives this name was Aelin-uial (LR/262), as it was in later Sindarin (S/114, 122). This reflects Tolkien’s vacillation on the development of the diphthong ai in Noldorin.

In The Silmarillion appendix Christopher Tolkien implied the regular Sindarin form of this word was aelin (SA/aelin), but more likely this was the plural form in Sindarin, as oelin was the plural in Noldorin.

Cognates

• Q. ailin “a large lake, (large) lake, [ᴹQ.] pool”

Element in

• S. Aelin-uial “Meres of Twilight” ✧ SA/aelin
• S. Aeluin “*Blue Lake” ✧ S/162

Elements

Word	Gloss
AY(AR)	“sea”
LIN	“pool, mere, lake”

Variations

• aelin ✧ SA/lin¹

lîn

noun. pool

rim

noun. cold pool or lake (in mountains)

lô

noun. shallow lake, fenland

loeg

noun. pool

loeg

noun. pool

ael

pool

1) ael (aelin-, pl. aelin) (lake, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin. 2)

ael

pool

(aelin-, pl. aelin) (lake, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin.

ael

mere

ael (aelin-, pl. aelin) (lake, pool). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin.

ael

mere

(aelin-, pl. aelin) (lake, pool). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin.

ael

lake

(aelin-, pl. aelin) (pool, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin.

lîn

pool

lîn (lake), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #**liniath (isolated from Hithliniath**, WJ:194). 3)

lîn

pool

(lake), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #*liniath*** (isolated from Hithliniath**, WJ:194). 3)

lîn

lake

1) lîn (pool), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #liniath (isolated from Hithliniath, WJ:194). 2) ael (aelin-, pl. aelin) (pool, mere). In ”Noldorin” oel, pl. oelin. 3) nên (water, pool, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn**. **

lîn

lake

(pool), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. #*liniath*** (isolated from Hithliniath**, WJ:194).

both

small pool

(i moth, construct both) (puddle), pl. byth (i mbyth). David Salo would lengthen the vowel and read ✱bôth in Sindarin.

rim

cold pool or lake

; no distinct pl. form except with article (idh rim), coll. pl. rimmath. Note: a homophone means ”crowd, great number, host”.

lô

shallow lake

(fenland), pl. lŷ.

loeg

pool

loeg (no distinct pl. form: loeg is also atttested with plural meaning) (VT45:29). 4) nên (water, lake, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.

loeg

pool

(no distinct pl. form: loeg is also atttested with plural meaning) (VT45:29). 4) nên (water, lake, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.

nên

lake

(water, pool, stream, waterland), construct nen, pl. nîn.

loeg

noun. pool

@@@ as suggested by Lokyt, possibly a plural form of unattested log, since it is glossed in the plural in the source material: “pools”

Derivations

• √LOG “wet (and soft), soaked, swampy”

Element in

• Nan. Loeg Ningloron “Gladden Fields, (lit.) Pools of the Golden Water-flowers”

lhîn

noun. pool

lhîn

noun. pool

Cognates

• ᴹQ. linya “pool” ✧ Ety/LIN¹

Derivations

• ᴹ√LIN “pool” ✧ Ety/KHIS; Ety/LIN¹

Element in

• N. Hithliniath “Pools of Mist” ✧ Ety/KHIS
• N. Orodlin

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√LIN¹ > lhîn	[linje] > [linie] > [lini] > [lin] > [l̥in] > [l̥īn]	✧ Ety/LIN¹

liniath

noun. pools

oel

noun. lake, pool, mere

rhim

noun. cold pool or lake (in mountains)

rhimb

noun. cold pool or lake (in mountains)