lón, lónë (pl. lóni given) noun "deep pool", "river-[?feeding] well" (the second gloss was not certainly legible). A rejected paragraph in Tolkien's manuscript defined the word as "deep pool or lake" (VT48:28, PE17:137)
Quenya
lónë
noun. *isle, isle, [ᴹQ.] island, remote land difficult to reach
Derivations
- ✶lō “ablative, from a place within the world”
Element in
- Q. Avallónë “Outer Isle” ✧ S/260
lón
deep pool
lóna
pool, mere
lóna (1) noun "pool, mere" (VT42:10). Variant of lón, lónë above?
linya
pool
linya noun "pool" (LIN1)
nendë
pool
nendë (1) noun "pool" (NEN), "lake" (PE17:52)
An element in the name Q. Avallónë “Outer Isle”, thus likely “[remote] isle”.
Conceptual Development: A similar form ᴹQ. lóna “island, remote land difficult to reach” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as the only derivative of the root ᴹ√LONO (Ety/LONO). This root was connected to the ablative element ᴹ√LŌ “✱from” (EtyAC/LŌ, LONO), so “remote land” is likely the original meaning. This word lóna was an element of the name ᴹQ. Avalóna “Outer Isle”, which ultimately became Q. Avallónë (S/260), a name that Tolkien said was “signifying the isle that lies nighest unto the Valar in Valinor” (MR/175 footnote). Thus lónë appears to be an updated version of ᴹQ. lóna, probably of similar meaning.