ᴱQ. Itselokte pn. “Pleiades, (lit.) Cluster of (Silver) Flies”
Qenya name for the Pleiades appearing in both the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa from the 1910s (QL/43; PME/43). It was translated as “Cluster of (Silver) Flies”, a combination of itse “small fly” and lokte “flower-cluster”.
References ✧ PME/43; QL/43
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| itse | “small fly” | ✧ QL/43 |
| lokte | “blossom (of flowers), (flower) cluster, bunch” |
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