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Q. alanessë n. “nicotiana, pipeweed” (Category: Tobacco)

Q. alanessë, n. “nicotiana, pipeweed, *tobacco” (Category: Tobacco)

A Quenya word appearing in notes on Words, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s as alenesse or alanesse “nicotiana, pipeweed [*tobacco]”, assembled from ala- “plant, grow” and (primitive?) ✶nes- “sweet smelling” (PE17/100). I prefer alanesse as it is more compatible with the etymology Tolkien gave for S. galenas “pipeweed”.

References ✧ PE17/100

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Elements

ala-¹ “to plant, grow” ✧ PE17/100
nes- “sweet smelling” ✧ PE17/100
#-ssë² “abstract noun”

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