Quettaparma Quenyallo

lemba adj. "left behind" (LEB/LEM)

Lembi noun "Elves remaining behind" = Telerin Ilkorins (LEB/LEM, PE17:143). Sg. #Lembë. Also called Úamanyar.

lemen, alternative cardinal "five" (VT48:6, 20); the word normally appears as lempë, but compare lemenya below.

lemenya archaic ordinal adj. "fifth", replaced by lempëa (VT42:25)

lemnar noun "week" (of five days) (LEP/LEPEN/LEPEK). Compare enquië, otsola.

lempë cardinal "five" (LEP/LEPEN/LEPEK, GL:53, VT42:24, VT47:10, 24); lempëa ordinal "fifth", an analogical formation replacing older lemenya, in turn altered from the historically "correct" form lepenya because of analogy with the cardinal lempë "five" (VT42:25; Vanyarin Quenya maintained lepenya, VT42:26)

lemya- vb. "remain, tarry" (VT45:27)

lenca ("k") (1) adj. "slow" (LT2:341, cf. VT49:11)

lenca- ("k") (2) vb. "loose, slacken" (LEK. In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the misreading leuka [for lenka] appears; cf. VT45:27)

lenda (1) noun “journey” (PE17:60)

lenda- (2) vb. "linger" (VT45:27)

lendë vb. "left, went" (pa.t. of lelya- "go") (FS, LR:47, SD:310, WJ:362), or, according to the Etymologies, the pa.t. of lenna- "go" and lesta- "leave" (LED, ELED. In the Etymologies as printed in LR, lenna- was misread as "linna-"; see VT45:27)

lenémë prep. "with leave" (+ genitive: "with leave of") (SD:246)

lenga- vb. “behave” (called a “weak verb”) (PE17:74)

lengë noun “gesture, characteristic look, gesture or trait etc.” (PE17:74)

lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.

lenu- vb. "stretch" (LT2:341)

[#lenta- vb. "send", attested in the past tense with pronominal suffixes: lentanelyes "you sent him". Changed by Tolkien to #lelta-, q.v. (VT47:22, 21)]

lenwa adj. "long and thin, straight, narrow" (LT2:341)

lenwë (1) noun “leaving, departure” (PE17:51)

Lenwë (2) noun the leader of the Nandor (Nandorin Denweg, primitive ¤Denwego) (WJ:412)

lenweta- vb. “go away, migrate, leave one’s abode”, pa.t. lenwentë (PE17:51)

lepenquë cardinal "fifteen" (VT48:21)

lepetta noun, a hard-wood tree growing in Gondor (Ithilien), Sindarin lebethron (PE17:89)

lepenya, see lempë

lepesta fraction "one fifth" (1/5), also lepsat (VT48:11)

lëo noun "shade, shadow cast by any object" (DAY)

lepecan ("k") noun "fourth finger" (counted from the thumb) (VT47:10, VT48:5), also lepentë

[lependë] noun "middle finger", also lepenel (VT47:10, VT48:15; struck out)

lepenel noun "middle finger", also [lependë] (VT47:10, VT48:5; lependë was struck out, VT48:15)

lepentë noun "fourth finger" (counted from the thumb) (VT48:5, 14, 15), also lepecan

leper (pl. leperi given) noun "finger" (VT44:16, VT47:10, 14, 24, VT48:5; an older source gives the word for "finger" as lepsë, q.v.)

lepetas noun "first or index finger" (VT47:10, VT48:5, 14). Stem lepetass- (pl. lepetassi, VT47:11) Also tassa.

lepinca ("k") noun "little finger" (VT47:10); variant lepincë (VT47:26, VT48:5)

lepincë ("k") noun "little finger" (VT47:26, VT48:5); variant lepinca (VT47:10). According to VT48:15, 18, lepincë is derived from older lepinki; if so the Quenya form should have the stem lepinci-.

lepsat fraction "one fifth" (1/5), also lepesta (VT48:11)

lepsë noun "finger" (LEP/LEPET; see leper). According to VT45:27, Tolkien derived lepsë from primitive ¤lepti; if so, lepsë should have the stem-form *lepsi-. However, Tolkien struck out the ancestral form lepti, so we cannot be sure whether this idea was maintained or not. In later sources, the word for "finger" appears as leper.

lepta- vb. "pick (up, out) with the fingers" (VT44:16, VT47:10), "[to] finger, feel with fingertips" (VT47:25)

leptafinya (also just finya) adj. “clever(-fingered)” (PE17:17)

leptenta- vb. *”point to/indicate with the finger“ (gloss suggested by Patrick Wynne) (VT49:24). Cf. tenta-, hententa-.

**lér noun "man" (NI¹; hypothetical Q form of PQ dēr; the form actually used in Quenya was nér)

léra adj. noun "free", of persons (VT41:5)

lerembas noun “lembas” (waybread of the Elves) (PE17:52); in a later source, the Quenya word for lembas is however given as coimas, q.v.

lerina adj. "free" of things: not guarded, reserved, made fast, or "owned" (VT41:5)

lerya- vb. "release, set free, let go"; negated avalerya- "bind, make fast, restrain, deprive of liberty" (VT41:5, 6)

lerta- vb. "can" in the sense "be free to do", being under no restraint (physical or other). Lertan quetë "I can speak (because I am free to do so, there being no obstacle of promise, secrecy, or duty)". Where the absence of a physical restraint is considered, this verb can be used in much the same sense as pol- (VT41:6)