Early Quenya
lepsile
noun. tendril
Derivations
- ᴱ√LEPE “*finger” ✧ QL/053
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√LEPE > lepsilẹ [leptilē] > [leptile] > [leptsile] > [lepsile] ✧ QL/053 Variations
- lepsilẹ ✧ QL/053
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
A word appearing as ᴱQ. lepsilẹ “tendril” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LEPE having to do with finger words (QL/53). The under-dotted ẹ also appears in the word ᴱQ. līnẹ under the root ᴱ√LI+ya, and so might represent a stem ending in a vocalized y, such as: ✱lepsilyǝ, līnyǝ > lepsilı̯-, līnı̯- > lepsile, līne.
Neo-Quenya: Since √LEP was still associated with finger words in Tolkien’s later conceptions of the languages, I’d retain ᴺQ. lepsilë “tendril” for purposes of Neo-Quenya.