(noun) lain; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone is the adjective ”free, freed”.
Sindarin
lain
noun. thread, warp, ‽twine, thread, warp
lain
noun. thread
lain
adjective. free, freed
lain
thread
lain
free, freed
1) lain; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”thread”. 2)
lain
thread
; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone is the adjective ”free, freed”.
lain
adjective. free(d), *liberated
lain
free, freed
; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”thread”.
rain
free
rain (wandering, erratic). No distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”border” (VT46:10; suggested Sindarin form of ” Noldorin” rhain)
rain
free
(wandering, erratic). No distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”border” *(VT46:10; suggested Sindarin form of ” Noldorin” rhain)*
lhê
noun. fine thread, spider filament
adleitha
free
(i adleitha, in adleithar), also †adleg- (i adleg, in edlegir), pa.t. adlenc, pp. adlengen, pl. edlengin).
lae-
verb. to not be
leitha
set free
(i leitha, i leithar)
An element in the name of the grey elvish rope S. hithlain (LotR/371) which in a note from the late 1960s was glossed “grey thread” and derived from √LAN “stretch, extend; ?twine” (PE17/60). As such, the word lain probably means “thread”. Tolkien later wrote “warp” after hithlain, probably an alternate meaning of lain, likely with the sense of cross-threads as in the “warp and weft” that are part of weaving in a loom.