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!

Early Quenya

líne

noun. thread, cotton

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LIYA “unite many as one” ✧ QL/053
    • ᴱ√LĪ “*many”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√LI+ya > līnẹ[lijnē] > [lijne] > [līne]✧ QL/053

Variations

  • līnẹ ✧ QL/053
Early Quenya [QL/053] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nemba

noun. thread

A noun for “thread” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√NEME having to do with sewing (QL/65).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NEME “*sew” ✧ QL/065

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NEME > nemba[nembā] > [nemba]✧ QL/065
Early Quenya [PME/065; QL/065] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kangawinda

noun. cobweb

A word for “cobweb” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/45), apparently a combination of the verb ᴱQ. kanga- “weave” and the noun ᴱQ. winda “woof”. It also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/45).

Early Quenya [PME/045; QL/045] Group: Eldamo. Published by