Quenya 

nírë

tear

nírë noun "tear" (NEI)

nië

tear

nië noun "tear" (NEI, VT45:38, LT1:262, LT2:346); apparently níe in MC:221

Amillion

february

Amillion noun "February" (LT1:249; LotR-style Quenya has Nénimë)

Niélë

tear

Niélë fem. name (meaning unclear, cf. nië "tear"?), diminutive Nieliccilis ("k") noun "little Niéle" (MC:215; PE16:96). This may suggest that Niélë has the stem-form *Niéli-.

Nénimë

february

Nénimë noun second month of the year, "February" (Appendix D)

nienaitë

adjective. tearful

Elements

WordGloss
nie“tear”

Sindarin 

nínui

noun/adjective. watery

Sindarin [LotR/D] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nínui

noun/adjective. the month of february

Sindarin [LotR/D] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nínui

noun. February, *Watery

Cognates

  • Q. Nénimë “February, *Wet-ness” ✧ LotR/1110; UT/279; UTI/Nénimë; UTI/Nínui

Elements

WordGloss
nîn“wet, *watery”
-ui“-ful, having quality, adjective suffix; possibility, suitability [as verbal suffix], *-able”

Variations

  • Ninui ✧ PM/136
Sindarin [LotR/1110; PM/136; UT/279; UTI/Nénimë; UTI/Nínui] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nîn

noun. tear, tear; [ᴱN.] weeping

Element in

  • S. Nínedhel “?Tear(ful) Elf”
  • S. Níniel “Tear-maiden” ✧ S/219
  • ᴺS. ninna- “to weep, *cry (tears)”

Variations

  • Nín ✧ S/219 (Nín)

nínui

february

Nínui

nínui

5~B5hJ adjective. tearful

Nîn (tear) + -ui (full, having that quality).

Sindarin [Elfdict.com] Published by

nínui

watery

(tearful); no distinct pl. form

nínui

tearful

(watery); no distinct pl. form

nínui

february

níniel

tearful

(pl. nínil)

nîd

tearful

1) nîd (damp, wet); no distinct pl. form, 2) níniel (pl. nínil), 3) nínui (watery); no distinct pl. form

nîd

tearful

(damp, wet); no distinct pl. form

nîn

watery

(wet); no distinct pl. form. Note: nîn is also used as a noun ”tear” and as the pl. form of nên ”water”; there is also the possessive pronoun nín ”my”.

nîr

tear

_(noun) _1) nîr (construct nir) (weeping). No distinct pl. form; coll. pl. níriath. Noun ”

nîr

tear

(construct nir) (weeping). No distinct pl. form; coll. pl. níriath. Noun ”

nírnaeth

tear-gnashing

; no distinct pl. form. 2) nîn; no distinct pl. form; pl. níniath. Note: nîn is also used as a noun ”tear” and as the pl. form of nên ”water”; there is also the possessive pronoun nín ”my”.

nend

watery

1) nend (pl. nind), 2) nîn (wet); no distinct pl. form. Note: nîn is also used as a noun ”tear” and as the pl. form of nên ”water”; there is also the possessive pronoun nín ”my”. 3) nínui (tearful); no distinct pl. form

nend

adjective. watery

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nend

watery

(pl. nind)

Noldorin 

nínui

adjective. *tearful

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
nîn“tear”
-ui“adjective suffix”

Variations

  • Nínui ✧ LR/301

níniel

adjective. tearful

Noldorin [Ety/376] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nîn

noun. tear

Noldorin [Ety/376] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nîn

noun. tear

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶neinē “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
    • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI
  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Element in

  • N. Níniel “Tear-maiden; Tearful”
  • N. niniel “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • N. nínui “*tearful”
  • N. nínim “snowdrop” ✧ Ety/NEI

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶neinē > nîn[neinē] > [neine] > [nīne] > [nīn]✧ Ety/NEI

Variations

  • ✧ EtyAC/NEI ()
Noldorin [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nîr

noun. tear, weeping

Noldorin [Ety/376] Group: SINDICT. Published by

niniel

adjective. tearful

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶neiniel- “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶neiniel- > niniel[neiniela] > [nīniela] > [nīniel] > [niniel]✧ Ety/NEI

nend

adjective. watery

Noldorin [Ety/376, X/ND1] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nenn

adjective. watery

Noldorin [Ety/376, X/ND1] Group: SINDICT. Published by

nenn

adjective. watery

An adjective given as N. nenn “watery” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from primitive ᴹ✶nendā (Ety/NEN).

Neo-Sindarin: In keeping with the idea that the sound “remained nd at the end of fully accented monosyllables” in Sindarin (LotR/1115), I would represent this word as ᴺS. nend in Neo-Sindarin.

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶nendā “watery, wet” ✧ Ety/NEN
    • ᴹ√NEN “*water” ✧ Ety/NEN

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶nendā > nend > nenn[nendā] > [nenda] > [nend] > [nenn]✧ Ety/NEN

nenneth

noun. February, *Watery

Changes

  • NennethNinui “February” ✧ PM/136

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Nendesse “February, *Wet-ness” ✧ PM/134

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Qenya 

nie

noun. tear

Cognates

  • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neinē “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI

Element in

  • ᴺQ. nienaitë “tearful”
  • Q. nieninquë “snowdrop, snowdrop, [ᴹQ.] (lit.) white tear”
  • ᴹQ. nieninqe “snowdrop, (lit.) white tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • Q. Nienna “Lady of Pity and Mourning”
  • ᴹQ. Nienna ✧ Ety/NEI
  • Q. Nienor “Mourning”
  • ᴹQ. Nienor “Sorrowful, Mourning”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√NEI̯ > níre[neire] > [nīre]✧ Ety/NEI
ᴹ√NEI̯ > nie[neje] > [nie]✧ Ety/NEI
ᴹ✶neñē > neʒe > nie[neŋe] > [neɣe] > [neje] > [nie]✧ EtyAC/NEI

Variations

  • níre ✧ Ety/NEI
Qenya [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI; PE21/06; PE21/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

neiniel-

adjective. tearful

Derivatives

  • N. niniel “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

neinē

noun. tear

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NEY “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
  • N. nîn “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Element in

  • ᴹ✶neiniel- “tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI

Variations

  • neñē ✧ EtyAC/NEI (neñē)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ney

root. tear

Tolkien used similar forms throughout his life for Elvish words connected to “tears”, the most enduring being Q. Nienna “Lady of Pity and Mourning” and S. nirnaeth as in Nirnaeth Arnoediad “[Battle of] Tears Unnumbered”. The first manifestation of this root was as ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” and ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, though Tolkien considered moving all the derivatives of ᴱ√NYE(NE) to ᴱ√NYEHE (QL/68). Nonetheless it seems the distinction survived in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon which had both nı̯e and nı̯eχe as primitive forms (GL/59-60). Early derivatives include ᴱQ. nyé “bleat” and ᴱQ. nyéni “she-goat” along with ᴱQ. nyére/G. nîr “grief” and ᴱQ. nie/G. nîn “tear”, the last of these appearing in G. Nínin-Udathriol, the earliest name of S. Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

The root reappeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√NEI̯ “tear” (Ety/NEI), though Tolkien considered and rejected alternate roots ᴹ√NEÑ (EtyAC/NEI) and ᴹ√NEI̯(ET) “moist” (NEI̯(ET)), the latter becoming the primitive word ᴹ✶neiti > ᴹQ. níte “moist, dewy” and N. nîd “damp, wet; tearful”. Other derivatives include ᴹQ. nie “tear”/N. nîn “tear” (same as the forms from the 1910s) as well as N. nírnaeth “lamentation” (Ety/NEI). Tolkien’s continued use of Q. Nienna (S/28) and S. nirnaeth (S/192) in later versions of the Silmarillion indicate this root’s ongoing validity.

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think some of the Quenya nye- forms from the 1910s might be salvaged as abnormal vocalization from n(e)ye- < √NEY.

Changes

  • NEÑNEI̯ ✧ Ety/NEI

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶neinē “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI
    • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • N. nîn “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neiti “moist, dewy” ✧ Ety/NEI
    • ᴹQ. níte “moist, dewy, moist, dewy, *damp (of weather)” ✧ Ety/NEI
    • N. nîd “damp, wet; tearful” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴹ✶neñrē “tear, weeping” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
    • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ EtyAC/NEI
  • ᴹQ. nie “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴺQ. níta- “to weep, cry [tears]”
  • ᴹQ. níte “moist, dewy, moist, dewy, *damp (of weather)” ✧ EtyAC/NEI̯(ET)
  • ᴺQ. nyé “bleat, cry of goat or sheep”
  • ᴺQ. nyenyë “weeping”
  • ᴺQ. nyérë “grief”
  • N. nîd “damp, wet; tearful” ✧ EtyAC/NEI̯(ET)
  • N. nîn “tear” ✧ Ety/NEI
  • ᴺS. nínia- “to weep”
  • N. nîr “tear, weeping, weeping, [G.] grief, sorrow; [N.] tear” ✧ Ety/NEI

Element in

  • ᴹQ. nieninqe “snowdrop, (lit.) white tear” ✧ Ety/NIK-W
  • ᴺS. nída- “to weep, cry (tears)”

Variations

  • NEI̯ ✧ Ety/NEI
  • NEI ✧ Ety/NIK-W; EtyAC/NEI
  • NEÑ ✧ EtyAC/NEI (NEÑ); EtyAC/NEI̯(ET) (NEÑ)
  • NEI̯(ET) ✧ EtyAC/NEI̯(ET) (NEI̯(ET))
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NEI; Ety/NIK-W; EtyAC/NEI; EtyAC/NEI̯(ET)] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

nîn

noun. tear

Cognates

  • Eq. nie “tear” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nienna

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nienna
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59

Element in

  • G. Nenir ✧ GL/60
  • G. Níniel “Child of Tears” ✧ LT2A/Níniel
  • G. ninna- “to weep” ✧ GL/60; LT2A/Níniel
  • G. ninios “lamentation, dropping of tears” ✧ GL/60; LT2A/Níniel
  • G. Nínin-Udathriol “Unnumbered Tears” ✧ LT2A/Níniel

Variations

  • nien(n) ✧ GL/60
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nien(n)

noun. tear

Early Noldorin

nîr

noun. tear

Element in

Variations

  • nír ✧ PE13/151
Early Noldorin [PE13/151] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

nyeχie

noun. tear

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ GL/60; QL/068
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59

Derivatives

  • Eq. nie “tear” ✧ GL/60; QL/068

Variations

  • nı̯eχie ✧ GL/60
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Early Quenya

nienaite

adjective. tearful

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
nie“tear”
Early Quenya [MC/214; MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/077] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nie

noun. tear

Cognates

  • G. nîn “tear” ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nienna

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶nyeχie “tear” ✧ GL/60; QL/068
    • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ GL/60; QL/068
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59
  • ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” ✧ LT1A/Nienna
    • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ GL/59

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶nı̯eχie > nie[nʲexiē] > [nʲexie] > [nʲeɣie] > [nʲeie] > [nʲie] > [nie]✧ GL/60
ᴱ✶nyeχie > nie[nʲexiē] > [nʲexie] > [nʲeɣie] > [nʲeie] > [nʲie] > [nie]✧ QL/068

Variations

  • nië ✧ LT1A/Nienna
  • níe ✧ MC/221
Early Quenya [GL/60; LT1A/Nienna; LT2A/Nínin-Udathriol; MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/077; PE16/143; PME/069; QL/068] Group: Eldamo. Published by

amillion

noun. February

Variations

  • amillion ✧ QL/030
Early Quenya [LT1A/Amillo; QL/030] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lunde tiqilindea

proper name. February

A name for the month of February in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/56), a combination of lunde “month” and tiqilindea “thawing”.

Variations

  • (Lunde) tiqilindea ✧ QL/056
Early Quenya [QL/056] Group: Eldamo. Published by

linqea

adjective. watery

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “watery”, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. linqe “water” (QL/54).

Early Quenya [QL/054] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sovalwaris

noun. February

Early Quenya [QL/086] Group: Eldamo. Published by