Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

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).

Element in

  • Eq. anaina “womanly” ✧ QL/031

Variations

  • anî ✧ QL/031
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anî

noun. woman

nî

noun. woman

Cognates

  • G. nîr “woman” ✧ GL/60
  • En. nain “woman”

Element in

  • Eq. -ni “feminine suffix”
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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.

Variations

  • nyēl ✧ PE16/135
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