Eldamo : Early Quenya : lingwe

ᴱQ. lingwe n. “snake, worm” (Category: Worm)

⚠️ᴱQ. lingwë, n. “snake, worm” (Category: Worm): Q. hlócë “reptile, snake, serpent, worm, *lizard; [ᴹQ.] dragon”; Q. #lingwë “fish”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “snake” with variants lingwe and lingo, an elaboration of ᴱQ. lin (ling-) of the same meaning (QL/54). Lingwe “snake” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/54), but in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s it was glossed “worm” (PE16/145). In later writings, lingwë was “fish” (NM/336; Ety/LIW).

References ✧ PE16/145; PME/54; QL/54

Glosses

“snake” ✧ PME/54; QL/54; QL/54 (lingo)
“worm” ✧ PE16/145

Variations

lingwe ✧ PE16/145; PME/54; QL/54
lingo ✧ QL/54

Elements

lin²

“snake”

✧ QL/54

Element In

ᴱQ. lingwilla “coil, spire” ✧ QL/54
ᴱQ. ulumpingwe “caterpillar”
ᴱQ. lingwin “serpent, dragon” ✧ QL/54

Cognates

ᴱN. lhiw “worm”
G. lingos “snake”