Quenya 

pilin

arrow

pilin (pilind-, as in pl. pilindi) noun "arrow" (PÍLIM)

quessë

noun. feather

The Quenya word for “feather” and the name of tengwa #4 [z] (LotR/1122).

Conceptual Development: Some similar words appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QASA: ᴱQ. qasil “arrow-feather, arrow” and ᴱQ. qasilla “tuft, nodding spray, tassel, plume” (QL/76); quasil was only glossed “arrow” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/76). ᴹQ. qesse “feather” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWES (Ety/KWES), already the name of tengwa #4 (EtyAC/KWES). It was also the name of this tengwa in notes on the Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s and 1940s (PE22/22, 51, 61), and remained so into the published version of The Lord of the Rings.

Quenya [LotR/1122; PE17/123; PE17/168; WJ/417] Group: Eldamo. Published by

quessë

feather

quessë noun "feather", also name of tengwa #4 (Appendix E, WJ:417, KWES, VT45:24); súriquessë "wind feather" (referring to a "tuft of radiating grass" in a drawing by Tolkien) (J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, p. 197)

Sindarin 

plinn

noun. arrow

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

pilimbes

noun. arrow feathering

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

pilin(d)

noun. arrow, [G.] dart

@@@ from pilind-

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/adaptations. Published by

pilinoth

noun. arrow of war, arrow sent as a summons to war

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

pess

noun. feather

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

laud

noun. feather

A Sindarin word for “feather”, attested only its suffixal form -lod in the name gwaelod “wind feather” (PE23/142). It is derived from ✶lauto, so its Sindarin singular form would be ✱laud.

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!

Middle Primitive Elvish

pilin

root. *arrow

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the derivatives ᴹQ. pilin “arrow”; in The Etymologies as recorded by Christopher Tolkien the root was given as ᴹ√PÍLIM (Ety/PÍLIM), but according to Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne the root might also be read as ᴹ√PÍLIN (EtyAC/PÍLIM). This root is probably a later iteration of the early root ᴱ√PILI from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, unglossed and with derivatives like ᴱQ. pilin “feather” and ᴱQ. pilna “arrow” (QL/74); it also had derivatives like G. pilon “arrow, dart” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/64). Later “feather” words were based on the root ᴹ√KWES (Ety/KWES; LotR/1122), but ᴹQ. pilin remains the best known Elvish word for “arrow”.

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/PÍLIM; EtyAC/PÍLIM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kwes

root. *feather

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s whose derivatives had mainly to do with feathers, such as ᴹQ. qesse “feather” and N. pesseg “pillow” (Ety/KWES). Tolkien’s continued use of Q. quessë “feather” in his later writings indicates its ongoing validity (LotR/1122). A possible precursor to this root was unglossed ᴱ√PEKE from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s whose derivatives had to do with plumes (QL/73). There is also ᴱ√PILI whose derivatives had to do with arrows and feathers (QL/74), but in later writings ᴹ√PILIN seems to have narrowed in sense specifically to “arrow” (Ety/PÍLIM; EtyAC/PÍLIM).

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KWES] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kwessē

noun. feather

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KWES] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

lhinn

noun. arrow

Early Noldorin [PE13/149; PE13/156; PE13/163] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lhind

noun. arrow

yrlhinn

adjective. arrowless

Early Noldorin [PE13/156] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Solosimpi

plinde

noun. arrow

Solosimpi [PE13/163] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

pilna

noun. arrow

Early Quenya [QL/074] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pilin

noun. feather; arrow

Early Quenya [PE13/163; PE14/043; PE14/044; PE14/047; PE14/073; PE14/079; PE15/69; PE16/112; PE16/113; PE16/114; PE16/115; PME/074; QL/074; VT40/08] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qasil

noun. arrow, arrow-feather

Early Quenya [PME/076; QL/076] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

pilin

noun. arrow, arrow; [ᴱQ.] feather

Qenya [Ety/PÍLIM; PE21/16; PE21/33; PE21/36; PE21/52] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pilen

noun. feather

A word for “feather” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/33-34), probably a later iteration of ᴱQ. pilin “feather” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/74). The word ᴹQ. pilin was more frequently glossed “arrow”.

Qenya [PE21/33; PE21/34] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qesse

noun. feather

Qenya [Ety/KWES; EtyAC/KWES; PE22/022; PE22/051; PE22/061] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

feng

noun. arrow, war arrow

Gnomish [GL/34; GL/42] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pilon

noun. arrow, dart

fengwathil

noun. arrow feathering

Gnomish [GL/34; GL/64] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

pili

root. *feather; arrow

Early Primitive Elvish [QL/074] Group: Eldamo. Published by