Quettaparma Quenyallo

li-, lin- a multiplicative prefix (LT1:269)

lia noun "fine thread, spider filament" (SLIG).

lia- vb. "twine" (LT1:271)

liantassë noun "vine" (LT1:271)

liantë (1) noun "spider" (SLIG), in earlier sources ascribed other meanings:(2) liantë "tendril" (LT1:271) and (3) “vine” (PE14:55, cf. liantassë elsewhere)

líco ("k") noun "wax" (Markirya comments, MC:223). The related noun lícuma "candle" suggests that líco has the stem-form lícu-.

lícuma ("k") noun "taper, candle"

lië noun "people" (LI, Narqelion, VT39:6), in Eldalië, losselië, Ornelië (q.v.); possessive #liéva in Mindon Eldaliéva (q.v.); maybe also compounded in #rohtalië, #ruhtalië (q.v.)

lil adverbial particle "more" (PE14:80)

lillassëa adj. "having many leaves", pl. lillassië in Markirya (ve tauri lillassië, lit. *"like many-leaved forests", is translated "like leaves of forests" in MC:215). The lil- element is clearly an assimilated form of lin-, # 1, q.v.

-lillo or -lillon ending for partitive pl. ablative (Plotz); see –li

lilómëa adj. “very dark, full of darkness” (PE17:81)

lilótëa adj. "having many flowers" (VT42:18)

lilta- vb. "dance" (LILT, Narqelion)

limba noun "a drop" (LIB¹)

limbë (1) adj. (stem limbi-, given primitive form ¤lĭmbĭ) “quick, swift” (PE17:18)

limbë (2) adj. "many", probably obsoleted by #1 above (LT2:342)

#limë (stem *limi-) noun "link", isolated from málimë, q.v.

limil noun “chain” (QL:54)

limpa adj. “frail, slender and drooping” (PE17:168)

limpë noun "(wine), drink of the Valar" (LIP), cf. the early "Qenya" gloss "drink of the fairies" (LT1:258)

lin, lind- noun "a musical sound" (Letters:308), "melody" (LT1:258). Compare lindë.

lin- (1) (prefix) "many" (LI), seen in lindornëa, lintyulussëa; assimilated lil- in lillassëa.

[lin- (2) vb. "sing" (GLIN, struck out)]

linda adj. "fair, beautiful" (of sound) (SLIN, LIND; VT45:27), “soft, gentle, light” (PE16:96), “beautiful, sweet, melodious of sound” (PE17:150); for Linda as a noun, see Lindar.

lindalë noun "music". Cf. Ainulindalë "Music of the Ainur". (The word is cited as lindelë in the printed Etymologies, entry LIN², but according to VT45:27, this is a misreading for lindalë in Tolkien's manuscript.) The word lindalë may argue the existence of a verbal stem #linda- "sing, make music".

Lindar noun "Singers" (sg. Linda), what the Teleri called themselves (WJ:380, MR:349, UT:253, 286). It seems that Lindar is also interpreted "the Beautiful" (cf. the common adj. linda "fair, beautiful"), but this interpretation apparently belongs primarily to Tolkien's earlier conception, when Lindar was the name of the First Clan, the name of which he revised to Vanyar (similarly meaning "the Fair"). Adj. Lindarin = Telerin (but Tolkien of course held it to be = Vanyarin when the First Clan, the later Vanyar, were still called Lindar – before he decided to apply this name to the third clan, the Teleri) (TĀ/TA3)

lindë noun "air, tune, singing, song" (SA:gond, (LIN², [GLIN]); lindelorendor "music-dream-land"; see laurelindórenan lindelorendor... (LotR2:III ch. 4, cf. Letters:308). Also compare lindi- in lindimaitar, q.v. (but the other compounds here cited do not give a lindë a stem-form lindi-).