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alanessë

alanessë

alanessë, see alenessë

alanessë

noun. nicotiana, pipeweed, nicotiana, pipeweed, *tobacco

A Quenya word appearing in notes on Words, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s as alenesse or alanesse “nicotiana, pipeweed [✱tobacco]”, assembled from ala- “plant, grow” and (primitive?) ✶nes- “sweet smelling” (PE17/100). I prefer alanesse as it is more compatible with the etymology Tolkien gave for S. galenas “pipeweed”.

Cognates

  • S. galenas “pipeweed, nicotiana, *tobacco” ✧ PE17/100

Elements

WordGloss
ala-“to plant, grow, to grow (of plants) [intr. and trans.], plant; *to thrive, flourish (of other creatures)”
nes-“sweet smelling”
-ssë“abstract noun”

Variations

  • alenesse ✧ PE17/100
  • alanesse ✧ PE17/100

alenessë

nicotiana, pipeweed

alenessë, also alanessë, noun "nicotiana, pipeweed" (tobacco) (PE17:100)

alenessë

noun. nicotiana, pipeweed