Quenya 

nírë

tear

nírë noun "tear" (NEI)

níre

noun. force

Quenya [PE 22:165] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

nírë

noun. force

A general word for “force” [physical, social and mental] derived from √NID “force, press(ure), thrust” and appearing in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969 (PE22/165).

nië

tear

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

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-.

Noldorin 

nîr

noun. tear, weeping

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

nîn

noun. tear

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

nîn

noun. tear

Noldorin [Ety/NEI; EtyAC/NEI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Sindarin 

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”.

balt

noun. force, force, [ᴱN.] might

A word for “force” appearing in notes on the Common Eldarin Article (CEA) from 1969 (PE23/136), clearly base on √BAL “power”.

Conceptual Development: The word ᴱN. balt “might” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists, initially glossed “a plain” (PE13/138). As suggested by the editors, the meaning “might” is probably connected to G. bâl (bald-) “worthy, important; great, mighty” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from the early root ᴱ√vḷd (GL/21), while the meaning “plain” is probably connected to G. bladwen “a plain” (GL/23), which is likely based on the early root ᴱ√PALA or ✱ᴱ√BALA (QL/71).

Sindarin [PE23/136] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nîn

noun. tear, tear; [ᴱN.] weeping

nínui

5~B5hJ adjective. tearful

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

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Qenya 

níre

noun. níre

nie

noun. tear

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

Early Noldorin

nîr

noun. tear

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

Early Quenya

nie

noun. tear

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

Gnomish

nien(n)

noun. tear

nîn

noun. tear

Gnomish [GL/60; LT1A/Nienna; LT2A/Níniel] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

nyeχie

noun. tear

Early Primitive Elvish [GL/60; QL/068] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

neinē

noun. tear

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.

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