Q. nieninquë n. “snowdrop” (Category: Snow)
A word for “snowdrop”, perhaps a reference to that species of flower, appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a combination of ᴹQ. nie “tear” and ᴹQ. ninqe “white”, so literally “white tear” (Ety/NEI, NIK-W). ᴱQ. nieninqe also appeared with the same form, meaning and etymology in the Qenya Lexicon and the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (QL/68; PME/68). In later writings, it appeared in adjectival form nieninquëa “like a snowdrop” in the 1950s version of the Nieninquë poem (PE16/96); the same form appeared in the version of the poem written around 1930, and its drafts (MC/215; PE16/90, 92). The word nieninquë likewise served as the title of that poem.
Reference ✧ PE16/96 ✧ “snowdrop”
Elements
| ᴹQ. nie | “tear” |
| ninquë | “white; chill, cold; pallid” |
Element In
ᴹQ. nieninqe n. “snowdrop, (lit.) white tear” (Category: Snow)
References ✧ Ety/NEI, NIK-W
Glosses
Elements
| nie | “tear” | ✧ Ety/NEI | |
| ninqe | “white” | ✧ Ety/NIK-W | |
| ᴹ√NIK(W) | “*snow; white” | ✧ Ety/NEI (NIK-W) | |
| ᴹ√NEY | “tear” | ✧ Ety/NIK-W (NEI) | |
Cognates
ᴱQ. nieninqe n. “snowdrop, (lit.) white tear” (Category: Snow)
References ✧ GL/60; LT1A/Nielíqui, Taniquetil; MC/215; PME/69; QL/68
Glosses
Elements
| nie | “tear” | ✧ QL/68 | |
| ninqe | “white” | ✧ LT1A/Nielíqui; LT1A/Taniquetil | |
| ᴱ√NYEHE | “weep” | ✧ LT1A/Nielíqui | |
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