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west

Source: PE22:50

Attested in Ambidexters Sentence ("númenna"), Cirion's Oath

originates from: CE NDU- "go down, sink, set"
Inflected forms
númenna "west.all" (q-all)
Component of compounds
Númenor "west-land"

Compound:
nú- "going down" + men "place, spot"