ᴱQ. fumella n. “(red) poppy, *(lit.) flower of sleep” (Category: Flower (other))
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. {fūmella >>} fumella or fūmelot “poppy” in the Qenya Lexicon, with an initial element ᴱQ. fúme “sleep” and a second element of either the suffix -lla or a reduced form of ᴱQ. lóte “flower” (QL/39). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa the variants were fumella and fúmelot valinoriva “poppy” (PME/39). In other early notes Tolkien had “Fumella, the red poppy that grew in hosts in Lorien’s gardens” (PE15/14).
Neo-Quenya: Since Tolkien abandoned ᴱQ. fúme “sleep”, I would update this word to ᴺQ. lórelot “poppy, *(lit.) flower of sleep” using a later form lórë for “sleep”.
References ✧ LT1/74; LT1A/fumellar; LT1I/Fumellar; PE15/14; PME/39; QL/39, 44
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| Fumellar | plural | “poppies” | ✧ LT1I/Fumellar |
| fumellar | plural | “flowers of sleep” | ✧ LT1/74 |
| fumellar | plural | “flowers of sleep, poppies” | ✧ LT1A/fumellar |
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| fúme | “(deep) sleep” | ✧ LT1A/fumellar; QL/39 (fūme); QL/39 (fūme) | |
| lóte | “flower, bloom, blossom” | suffix | ✧ QL/39 (#-lot) |
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