NEN
From Tolkien Gateway
NEN is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "water".[1][2][3]
Derivatives
- Quenya: nēn ("water");[1] nenya ("wet");[1] nende;[1][3] nenda ("watery, wet");[3] nelle ("brook")[3]
- Sindarin: nîn ("wet"); nĕn ("water, lake")[1]
- Noldorin: nen; nend, nenn ("watery")[3]
Other versions of the Lengedarium
In the Qenya Lexicon appears the root NENE, given the signification "flow?".[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 52 (form appearing as "√NEN")
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 167 (form appearing as "√NĒN", with an added breve to "Ē")
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 376 (the root, appearing as "NEN-", is given no signification, but yields equivalent derivatives)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)
