lenwë

leaving, departure

lenwë (1) noun "leaving, departure" (PE17:51)

lenwë

lenwë

Lenwë (2) noun the leader of the Nandor (Nandorin Denweg, primitive ¤Denwego) (WJ:412)

lenwë

masculine name. Lenwë

The Quenya name of the leader of the Nandor (S/54). The meaning of the initial element is unclear, but its final element is the suffix -wë common in ancient names. See the entry for his Nandorin name, Nan. Denweg, for further discussion.

Conceptual Development: In earlier linguistic notes from the 1930s (PE18/24) and Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (MR/169), his Quenya name was Nano or [ᴹQ.] Nanno.

Cognates

• Nan. Denweg ✧ WJ/385; WJ/412; WJI/Lenwë; WJI/Denweg

Derivations

• ✶Denwego ✧ WJ/412

Elements

Word	Gloss
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-wë	“ancient name suffix (usually but not always masculine)”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶Denwego > Lenwe	[denwego] > [denweg] > [denweɣ] > [denwe]	✧ WJ/412

Variations

• Lenwe ✧ WJ/385; WJ/412

lenwë

noun. leaving, departure

Derivations

• ✶ledmē “leaving, departure” ✧ PE17/051
  • √LED “go, proceed, go, proceed, [ᴹ√] fare, travel” ✧ PE17/051

Element in

• Q. lenweta- “to go away, migrate, leave one’s abode” ✧ PE17/051

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ledmē > lenwe	[ledmē] > [lenmē] > [lenwē] > [lenwe]	✧ PE17/051

Variations

• lenwe ✧ PE17/051

ledmē

noun. leaving, departure

Derivations

• √LED “go, proceed, go, proceed, [ᴹ√] fare, travel” ✧ PE17/051

Derivatives

• Q. lenwë “leaving, departure” ✧ PE17/051

Element in

• ✶le(n)dembassē “bread taken on leaving home (for a long journey)” ✧ PE17/051; PE17/051