Sindarin term for Elf-women in service to Yavanna (PM/404), a combination of her Sindarin name Ivann and the lenited plural form of gwend “maiden”.
Quenya
yavannildi
collective name. Maidens of Yavanna
Cognates
- S. Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” ✧ PM/404; PMI/Yavannildi
Elements
Word Gloss Yavanna “Giver of Fruits, (lit.) Fruit-gift” nilde “friend (f.)”
Elvish women who were devotees of Yavanna and learned the secret of crafting lembas (PM/404). The initial element of this name is Yavanna and the second element may be a feminized form of the suffix -(n)dil “friend”, as in [ᴹQ.] nilde “female friend”, or perhaps the plural of the feminine agental suffix -ldë.