nyelet

noun. nail (of the finger)

ᴱQ. nyelet “nail (of the finger)” appeared in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s with a plural form nyeleksi (PE15/75). It was probably related to ᴱQ. nyelekka “onyx” from the same document (PE15/76).

Neo-Quenya: I’d retain the word ᴺQ. nyelet “finger nail” for purposes of Neo-Quenya derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√NYELEK, but I would assume that its stem form is nyelec- because (a) I think the plural nyeleksi may be the result of Early Qenya phonetic changes like how [[eq|[ti] became [tsi]]] and (b) a stem form ending in ks- would become a final s in later Quenya phonology (PE19/104).

nyelekka

noun. onyx

The noun ᴱQ. nyelekka “onyx” appeared in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s (PE15/76). It was probably related to ᴱQ. nyelet (nyelek-) “nail (of the finger)” from the same document (PE15/75).

Neo-Quenya: I’d retain the word ᴺQ. nyelecca “onyx” for purposes of Neo-Quenya derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√NYELEK.

nyelek Reconstructed

root. NYELEK

A hypothetical root serving as the basis for the words ᴱQ. nyelet (nyeleks-) “nail (of the finger)” and ᴱQ. nyelekka “onyx” from the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s (PE15/75-76). I think it is worth retaining this root for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin.