S. levnui num. ord. “fifth” (Category: Ordinal Number)
A word appearing as the river name Lefnui in The Lord of the Rings (LotR/750) whose meaning was “fifth” according to notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s (VT42/10). In these notes Tolkien said the spelling Lefnui is preferable, but the actual pronunciation was levnui (VT42/14). Notes on numbers later in the same document had levnui “fifth” (VT42/25-26), an adjective form of leben “five”. I would stick with the form levnui “fifth” whose pronunciation is more obvious.
References ✧ VT42/10, 25-26
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| leben | “five” | ✧ VT42/25 |
| -ui | “-ful, having quality, adjective suffix; [as verbal suffix] possibility, suitability, *-able” | ✧ VT42/10; VT42/25; VT42/26 |
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