Quenya 

celussë

freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring

celussë ("k")noun "freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring" (UT:426, VT49:30)

tuilë

spring, spring-time

tuilë noun "spring, spring-time", also used = "dayspring, early morn" (VT39:7, TUY), in the calendar of Imladris a precisely defined period of 54 days, but also used without any exact definition. Cf. tuilérë, q.v. (Appendix D) - In early "Qenya", the word tuilë is glossed "Spring", but it is said that it literally refers to a "budding", also used collectively for "buds, new shoots, fresh green" (LT1:269). Cf. tuima in Tolkien's later Quenya.

tuilë

noun. spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green

Cognates

  • S. ethuil “spring, spring [the season]” ✧ LotR/1107
  • S. tuil “spring”
  • Van. twílë “spring” ✧ PE19/107

Derivations

  • √TUY “sprout, bud” ✧ VT39/07

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√TUJU > tuile[tuile]✧ VT39/07

Variations

  • tuile ✧ PE19/107; VT39/07
Quenya [LotR/1107; LotR/1111; PE19/107; UT/327; UTI/tuilë; VT39/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Sindarin 

celos

place name. Celos

A stream in Gondor flowing into the river Sirith (LotR/875). It is a cognate of Q. celussë “freshnet”, derived from a combination of ✶kelu- “flow out swiftly” and the primitive abstract-noun suffix ✶-ssē/-ssā (UTI/Celos). The Sindarin name is most likely derived from primitive ✶kelussā, because primitive [[s|short [i], [u] became [e], [o] preceding final [a]]], with the final [a] lost later.

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared in a list of rivers in Gondor as N. Kelos (TI/312).

Cognates

  • Q. celussë “freshnet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring” ✧ UTI/Celos
Sindarin [LotRI/Celos; UTI/Celos] Group: Eldamo. Published by

celu

noun. spring, source

Sindarin [Ety/363, X/W] Group: SINDICT. Published by

eithel

noun. issue of water, spring, well

Sindarin [Ety/363, S/430, S/433, WJ/85, TC/187] Group: SINDICT. Published by

ethuil

noun. spring, spring [the season]

Cognates

  • Q. tuilë “spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green” ✧ LotR/1107

Element in

Variations

  • Ethuil ✧ AotM/062; SD/129
Sindarin [AotM/062; LotR/1107; SD/129] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tuil

noun. spring

Cognates

  • Q. tuilë “spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green”

Element in

  • S. Thranduil “Vigorous Spring” ✧ PE17/027
Sindarin [PE17/027] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Celos

freshet

celos (i gelos, o chelos) (water falling swiftly from a spring), pl. celys (i chelys)

Celos

flow out swiftly

The Sindarin name Celos derives from the root KELU- ("flow out swiftly") + ending -sse, -ssa. The Quenya cognate is kelussë ("freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring").

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway "Celos"] Published by

Celos

Celos

The Sindarin name Celos derives from the root KELU- ("flow out swiftly") + ending -sse, -ssa. The Quenya cognate is kelussë ("freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring").

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway] Published by

Celos

water falling swiftly from a spring

celos (i gelos, o chelos) (freshet), pl. celys (i chelys).

Celos

water falling swiftly from a spring

celos (i gelos, o chelos) (freshet), pl. celys (i chelys).

celos

water falling swiftly from a spring

(i gelos, o chelos) (freshet), pl. celys (i chelys).

celos

freshet

(i gelos, o chelos) (water falling swiftly from a spring), pl. celys (i chelys)

celu

spring

(of water) 1) celu (i gelu, o chelu) (source), analogical pl. cely (i chely). Archaic celw; so the coll. pl. is likely celwath. 2) (well) eithel (source, issue of water), pl. eithil.

celu

spring

(i gelu, o chelu) (source), analogical pl. cely (i chely). Archaic celw; so the coll. pl. is likely celwath.

eithel

spring

(source, issue of water), pl. eithil.

ethuil

spring

(season) ethuil (no distinct pl. form). SPRING-SINGER, see SWALLOW

ethuil

spring

(no distinct pl. form).

tuia

spring

(verb) tuia- (i duia, i thuiar) (swell, sprout)

tuia

spring

(i duia, i thuiar) (swell, sprout)

Quendya 

twílë

noun. spring

Cognates

  • Q. tuilë “spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green” ✧ PE19/107

Variations

  • twīle ✧ PE19/107

Adûnaic

khibil

noun. spring

A noun translated “spring” and fully declined as an example of a Strong I noun (SD/430).

Noldorin 

celw

noun. spring, source

Noldorin [Ety/363, X/W] Group: SINDICT. Published by

eithel

noun. issue of water, spring, well

Noldorin [Ety/363, S/430, S/433, WJ/85, TC/187] Group: SINDICT. Published by

ethuil

noun. spring

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. tuile “spring, spring-time” ✧ PM/134

Variations

  • Ethuil ✧ PM/135

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Qenya 

kelulinde

noun. spring

A word for “spring” in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s, a combination of ᴹQ. kelu- “flow” and ᴹQ. linde “pool” (PE21/10). ᴱQ. kelusindi “river (near its source)” = ᴱQ. kelu- + sindi from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s is similar in structure (QL/46).

Gnomish

tuil

noun. spring

Cognates

  • Eq. tuile “spring, (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green” ✧ LT1A/Tuilérë

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TUẎU “*spring, sprout” ✧ LT1A/Tuilérë

Element in

  • G. tuilir “spring(time)” ✧ GL/71; LT1A/Tuilérë

Variations

  • duil ✧ GL/31 (duil); LT2A/Duilin (duil)
  • Tuil ✧ GL/47
Gnomish [GL/31; GL/47; GL/71; LT1A/Tuilérë; LT2A/Duilin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aithl

noun. spring

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ektḷ ✧ GL/18; LT2A/Ecthelion
    • ᴱ√KELE “flow, run; ooze, trickle”

Element in

  • G. aithla- “to spring (from), issue forth, bubble up” ✧ GL/18

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ektḷ > aithl[ektl] > [exθl] > [eiθl] > [aiθl]✧ GL/18

Variations

  • aithel ✧ LT2A/Ecthelion
  • aithyl ✧ PE13/108
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/25; GL/31; LT2A/Ecthelion; PE13/108] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aithyl

noun. spring

hairen

feminine name. Spring

Gnomish [GL/47; LT1A/Tuilérë] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

welme

noun. spring

welwe

noun. spring

Cognates

  • G. gwelwi “spring of water”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWELE “*boil, bubble” ✧ QL/103

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√GWELE > ’welwe[gʷelwē] > [gʷelwe] > [welwe]✧ QL/103

Variations

  • ’welwe ✧ QL/103
  • ’welme ✧ QL/103
Early Quenya [QL/103] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tuilére

noun. Spring

Cognates

  • G. tuilir “spring(time)” ✧ QL/096

Element in

Variations

  • Tuilérë ✧ LT1A/Tuilérë; LT1I/Tuilérë
  • Tui(lēre) ✧ PME/096
  • Tuilēre ✧ QL/096
  • Tui ✧ QL/096 (Tui)
  • tuilē-re ✧ QL/096
Early Quenya [LT1A/Tuilérë; LT1I/Tuilérë; PME/096; QL/040; QL/096] Group: Eldamo. Published by