hwindë

birch

hwindë (1) noun "birch" (PE17:23)

hwindë

eddy, whirlpool

hwindë noun (2) "eddy, whirlpool" (SWIN). In the pre-classical Tengwar system presupposed in the Etymologies, hwindë was also the name of tengwa #34, which letter Tolkien would later call hwesta sindarinwa instead.

hwindë

noun. birch

A word for “birch” in notes from the mid-1960s (PE17/23).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. silwin (silwind-) “birch” under the early root ᴱ√SILI (QL/83).