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ᴱQ. silqeléni n. “silver birch, (lit.) long tresses” (Category: Birch)

⚠️ᴱQ. silqueléni, n. “silver birch, (lit.) long tresses” (Category: Birch)
Q. hwindë “birch”

A word for a “silver-birch” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, a combination of ᴱQ. silqe “tress of hair” and -léni “long”, hence more literally “[lady of] long tresses” (QL/53, 83; PME/83).

References ✧ PME/83; QL/53, 83

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silqe “tress of hair; (glossy) hair” ✧ QL/53 (#silqe); QL/83 (‽silqe)
-léni “long” ✧ QL/53 (lēni)

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