fána (2) noun "cloud" _(SPAN, VT46:15). _Cf. fana.
Quenya
fana
veils
fana
noun. raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit
fána
cloud
larma
noun. raiment
A word from the late 1960s for “raiment” appearing only its plural form in the phrase Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe coar al larmar “Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in veils, like to Elvish bodies and raiment” (PE17/175). It’s derivation is unclear, but it might be tied to ᴹ√LAD “lie flat” from the 1940s (PE22/126).
larma
raiment
#larma (1) noun "raiment", attested in pl. form larmar (PE17:175)
lumbo
cloud
lumbo noun "cloud" (pl. lumbor in Markirya), also glossed "gloom; dark, shade" (PE17:72, 168). In early "Qenya", lumbo was glossed "dark lowering cloud" (LT1:259)
top-
cover
top- vb. "cover" (1st pers. aorist topë "covers"), pa.t. tompë (TOP). Variant tup-, q.v.
tup-
cover
#tup- vb. "cover", isolated from untúpa, q.v. Variant top- in the Etymologies.
ungo
cloud, dark shadow
ungo noun "cloud, dark shadow" (UÑG)
fana noun term denoting the "veils" or "raiment" in which the Valar presented themselves to physical eyes, the bodies in which they were self-incarnated, usually in the shape of the bodies of Elves (and Men) (RGEO:74, PE17:173-180). According to PE17:26, fana may be said to mean "shape" with "added notion" of light and whiteness, "it is thus often used where we might use a vision of something beautiful or sublime", yet with no connotation of "uncertainty or unreality".