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Old 03-13-2004, 11:50 AM   #16
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In Quenya:

baby --> lapsë

child --> hìna

That is the closest that I could find. I don't have an English-Sindarin list, so I think that we can safely assume that, in Quenya, Elves used these terms to refer to babies or children.
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