Quenya 

pilin

arrow

pilin (pilind-, as in pl. pilindi) noun "arrow" (PÍLIM)

quessë

feather

quessë noun "feather", also name of tengwa #4 (Appendix E, WJ:417, KWES, VT45:24); súriquessë "wind feather" (referring to a "tuft of radiating grass" in a drawing by Tolkien) (J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, p. 197)

quessë

noun. feather

The Quenya word for “feather” and the name of tengwa #4 [z] (LotR/1122).

Conceptual Development: Some similar words appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QASA: ᴱQ. qasil “arrow-feather, arrow” and ᴱQ. qasilla “tuft, nodding spray, tassel, plume” (QL/76); quasil was only glossed “arrow” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/76). ᴹQ. qesse “feather” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWES (Ety/KWES), already the name of tengwa #4 (EtyAC/KWES). It was also the name of this tengwa in notes on the Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s and 1940s (PE22/22, 51, 61), and remained so into the published version of The Lord of the Rings.

Quenya [LotR/1122; PE17/123; PE17/168; WJ/417] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Sindarin 

pilin(d)

noun. arrow, [G.] dart

@@@ from pilind-

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/adaptations. Published by

plinn

noun. arrow

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

laud

noun. feather

A Sindarin word for “feather”, attested only its suffixal form -lod in the name gwaelod “wind feather” (PE23/142). It is derived from ✶lauto, so its Sindarin singular form would be ✱laud.

Sindarin [PE23/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pess

noun. feather

Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

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Middle Primitive Elvish

pilin

root. *arrow

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the derivatives ᴹQ. pilin “arrow”; in The Etymologies as recorded by Christopher Tolkien the root was given as ᴹ√PÍLIM (Ety/PÍLIM), but according to Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne the root might also be read as ᴹ√PÍLIN (EtyAC/PÍLIM). This root is probably a later iteration of the early root ᴱ√PILI from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, unglossed and with derivatives like ᴱQ. pilin “feather” and ᴱQ. pilna “arrow” (QL/74); it also had derivatives like G. pilon “arrow, dart” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/64). Later “feather” words were based on the root ᴹ√KWES (Ety/KWES; LotR/1122), but ᴹQ. pilin remains the best known Elvish word for “arrow”.

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/PÍLIM; EtyAC/PÍLIM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kwessē

noun. feather

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KWES] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

pilin

noun. feather; arrow

Early Quenya [PE13/163; PE14/043; PE14/044; PE14/047; PE14/073; PE14/079; PE15/69; PE16/112; PE16/113; PE16/114; PE16/115; PME/074; QL/074; VT40/08] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pilna

noun. arrow

Early Quenya [QL/074] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

pilin

noun. arrow, arrow; [ᴱQ.] feather

Qenya [Ety/PÍLIM; PE21/16; PE21/33; PE21/36; PE21/52] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pilen

noun. feather

A word for “feather” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/33-34), probably a later iteration of ᴱQ. pilin “feather” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/74). The word ᴹQ. pilin was more frequently glossed “arrow”.

Qenya [PE21/33; PE21/34] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qesse

noun. feather

Qenya [Ety/KWES; EtyAC/KWES; PE22/022; PE22/051; PE22/061] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Solosimpi

plinde

noun. arrow

Solosimpi [PE13/163] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

lhinn

noun. arrow

Early Noldorin [PE13/149; PE13/156; PE13/163] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lhind

noun. arrow