Another name for Ilmen in notes from the early 1930s (SM/241), a combination of tinwe “star” and malle “street”.
Qenya
malle
noun. street, (made or stone) road
malle téna lende númenna
a road [once] went straight westward
tinwe-malle
place name. Star-street
A word for “street” appearing in Tolkien’s writings of the 1910s-40s. ᴱQ. malle “street” first appeared [albiet marked with “?”] in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√MALA “crush, squeeze, pulp” (QL/58), and in early names from this period such as ᴱQ. Olóre Malle “Path of Dreams” (LT1/18) and ᴱQ. Kúne Malle “Road of Arches” (PE13/105). ᴱQ. malle “street” reappeared in several charts of Qenya Declensions from the 1920s (PE16/112-115) and in contemporaneous Early Qenya Word-lists (PE16/143).
ᴹQ. malle was more fully defined as “made road, stone-road, street” in Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/24) and also appeared in some contemporaneous declension charts (PE21/44-45). In The Etymologies from around 1397, ᴹQ. malle “street” was derived from the root ᴹ√MBAL (Ety/MBAL). This word also appeared with the gloss “road” in various iterations of the ᴹQ. Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s, in the phrases ᴹQ. __malle__ téna lende númenna “a road [once] went straight westward” and ᴹQ. ilya sí __maller__ raikar “now all roads (are) bent” (LR/47, 56; SD/310). There is no sign of this word in the 1950s and 60s, but that could be a coincidence.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word for constructed roads, particularly those that are paved or are city streets.