Quettaparma Quenyallo

nehtë (2) noun "honeycomb" (VT45:38)

neitë noun "wax" (GL:60; rather líco in Tolkien's later Quenya. The status of the diphthong ei is uncertain; in the LotR appendices, Tolkien did not list ei among the Quenya diphthongs, so perhaps the word neitë from an early source is conceptually obsolete also in terms of phonology.)

nel adv. “thrice”, also nel- (prefix) "tri-" (PE14:84, NEL). Compare neldë.

nelcë ("k") noun "tooth", also nelet (VT46:3)

nelci ("k") pl. of nelet (and nelcë), q.v. (NÉL-EK)

neldë cardinal "three" (SA:neldor, NÉL-ED, VT47:11, VT48:6). Eleni neldë “three stars”, archaic elenion neldë = *“of stars three”. Genitive “of 3 stars” = elenion neldë (for archaic elenion neldëo) (VT49:45; see 54 regarding neldion as the gen. pl.) Cf. also nelya, neldëa, Neldië.

neldëa ordinal "third" (VT42:25); also nelya. Cf. neldë.

neldesta fraction "one third" (1/3), also nelesta, nelsat, nelta. (VT48:11)

Neldië noun "Trinity" (VT44:17)

Neldion noun *"Day of the three [younger gods]", sc. Ossë, Orome and Tulkas (LEP/LEPEN/LEPEK). Elsewhere neldion appears as as the genitive plural form of neldë “three” (VT49:54), but Tolkien emended the relevant text.

neldor noun "beech" (LT2:343)

?nelequë ("kw") cardinal "thirteen" (VT48:21). The spelling "nelekwe" occurring in the primary source could suggest that this is really a Common Eldarin form; if so, one could theorize that the Quenya form would be *nelquë with syncope of the middle vowel (the same source lists "minikwe" as a word for 11, and the Quenya form is known to be minque). Compare nelquëa. On the other hand, "tolokwe" as a word for 18 is listed together with definite Quenya forms and is apparently an unorthodox spelling of *toloquë (as observed by the editor); here no syncope producing *tolquë occurs. Thus toloquë could support ?nelequë as the Quenya word (but because of the uncertainties, yunquentë may be preferred as the word for 13).