lesta

noun. *girdle

An element in the name Q. Lestanórë for Doriath (WJ/369), untranslated but probably the cognate to S. lest “girdle” from the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” (WJ/228).

Cognates

• S. lest “girdle, girdle, *belt”

Element in

• Q. Lestanórë “Doriath, *(lit.) Land of the Girdle” ✧ WJ/369

Variations

• Lesta ✧ WJ/369 (Lesta)

quilta

girdle, belt

quilta noun "girdle, belt" (QL:78); the same source also lists a verb qilti- (sic) "gird, encircle"; one could perhaps read *quilta- if this verb were to be adapted to Tolkiens later Quenya.

Lestanórë

doriath

Lestanórë place-name "Doriath", gen. Lestanórëo (WJ:369). If this name means the same as the Sindarin name Doriath, "Land of the Fence", #lesta ought to mean "fence" here (but it is obviously not a cognate of the Sindarin term iâth "fence").It may mean "girdle"; compare Sindarin Lest Melian as a name of the Girdle of Melian (WJ:XXX), suggesting*"Girdle-land" as the meaning of Lestanórë.

quilta

noun. belt, girdle

Derivations

• ᴺ✶. KWILIT “belt, girdle”

Element in

• Eq. macilquilta “swordbelt”
• ᴺQ. quiltalannë “apron”
• ᴺQ. quiltassë “(em)broidery”

lest

noun. girdle

lest

noun. girdle, girdle, *belt

An element in the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” for the magical barrier around Doriath (WJ/228).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would also use this word for “✱belt”.

Cognates

• Q. lesta “*girdle”

Element in

• S. Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” ✧ WJ/228

Variations

• Lest ✧ WJ/228

Doriath

noun. land of the fence

(n-)dôr (“land,dwelling”) + iâth (“fence”); genitival sequences with possessor or qualifier second in the later period became fixed compounds, as Dóriath; #probably reinterpreted by Tolkien from earlier ” land of the cave” < (n-)dôr (“land, dwelling-place”) + #i (sing or genitive article) + gath (“cavern”) [Etym. GATH-]

Doriath

Doriath

topon.

lest

girdle

lest (boundary, fence), pl. list

lest

girdle

(boundary, fence), pl. list

Doriath

place name. Land of the Fence

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth.

Doriath

Doriath

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth. The earlier name of Doriath, Eglador, probably means either "Land of the Forsaken" or "Land of the Elves"[source?] in Sindarin.

kwilit

root. belt, girdle

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. quilta “belt, girdle”
• ᴺQ. quilta- “to gird, encircle”