nieninquë ("q") noun "snowdrop", etymologically "white tear" (NIK-W, LT1:262, 266)
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noun. snowdrop, snowdrop, [ᴹQ.] (lit.) white tear
nieninquë
snowdrop
nieninquëa
adjective. like a snowdrop
nieninquëa
snowdrop-like
nieninquëa ("q")adj. "snowdrop-like" (MC:215)
A word for “snowdrop”, perhaps a reference to that species of flower, appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a combination of ᴹQ. nie “tear” and ᴹQ. ninqe “white”, so literally “white tear” (Ety/NEI, NIK-W). ᴱQ. nieninqe also appeared with the same form, meaning and etymology in the Qenya Lexicon and the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (QL/68; PME/68). In later writings, it appeared in adjectival form nieninquëa “like a snowdrop” in the 1950s version of the Nieninquë poem (PE16/96); the same form appeared in the version of the poem written around 1930, and its drafts (MC/215; PE16/90, 92). The word nieninquë likewise served as the title of that poem.