Eldamo : Early Quenya : nindon

ᴱQ. nindon (nindond-) n. “lapis lazuli” (Category: Gem, Jewel)

⚠️ᴱQ. nindon (nindond-), n. “lapis lazuli” (Category: Gem, Jewel): ᴺQ. !luinion “lapis lazuli, (lit.) blue-rock”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s glossed “lapis lazuli” as a combination of ᴱQ. nin (nind-) “blue” and ᴱQ. ondo “stone” (QL/66; PME/66). In the Qenya Lexicon ningon was written below it and a faint line was drawn through the first part of nindon, possibly indicating a replacement as suggested by the editors.

References ✧ PME/66; QL/66

Glosses

“lapis lazuli” ✧ PME/66; QL/66

Variations

nindon ✧ PME/66; QL/66
ningon ✧ QL/66

ningon [per editors, written after and possibly replacing nindon “lapis lazuli” ✧ QL/66

Inflections

nindond-

stem

✧ QL/66

Elements

nin	“blue (colour), blueness, blue green”
ondo	“stone, rock”

Cognates

G. nind “blue stone, turquoise”

Derivations

< ‽ᴱ√NINI “*blue” ✧ QL/66 (‽NINI)

Phonetic Developments

‽ᴱ√NINI > nindon

[nindond] > [nindon]

✧ QL/66