Lestanórë

place-name "Doriath", gen. Lestanórëo WJ:369. If this name means the same as the Sindarin name Doriath, “Land of the Fence”, \#lesta ought to mean “fence” here but it is obviously not a cognate of the Sindarin term iâth “fence”.It may mean “girdle”; compare Sindarin Lest Melian as a name of the Girdle of Melian WJ:XXX, suggesting*“Girdle-land” as the meaning of Lestanórë.