beauty, beautifulness

Plural: bainais

With singular and plural “the”, showing Soft and Nasal mutations:
i vainas “the beauty”
i mainais “the beauties”

/ˈbaj.nas/

bain “beautiful” (Ety351; Ety359; PE17:165) and -as abstract nominalizer, isolated from words such as bellas “strength” (Ety352) and maenas “craft” (Ety371)

bellas “strength” (Ety352)

maenas “craft” (Ety371)

hannas “understanding, intelligence” (Ety363)

The correspondent of Q vanessë could instead be baneth, crafted after venessë and gweneth (Ety398). David Salo used beinas for the LotR films.

If we consider an older version of the term, then benias is a possibility too, making its history as follows: banyasse>banias>benias

Ú-velin i vainas lîn. Le melin.
I don't love your beauty. I love you.

Fiona Jallings, a.k.a. 'dreamingfifi' Merin Essi ar Quenteli! - Wordlists - Reconstructed Sindarin