lia

noun. twine

liantasse

noun. vine

A word appearing as ᴱQ. liantasse “vine” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. liante “tendril” under the early root ᴱ√LI+ya “unite many as one” (QL/53).

Neo-Quenya: The later root ᴹ√SLIG was the basis for words like ᴹQ. liante “spider” and ᴹQ. lia “fine thread, spider filament”, so I think ᴺQ. liantassë “vine” can be salvaged as a derivative of this root, perhaps originally meaning “✱an entwining”. This word was used for “vine” in Helge Fauskanger’s NQNT (NQNT).

lia(r)

adjective. many

lia-

verb. to entwine

liante

noun. tendril, vine

limba

adjective. many

ungwe

noun. spider

kangaris

noun. spider

A word for “spider” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, based on the verb ᴱQ. kanga- “weave, spin” from the early root ᴱ√KANGA (QL/45), also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/45).

lepsile

noun. tendril

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.

li(n)-

prefix. many

ola-

prefix. many

olli

adjective. many

olli-

prefix. many