(noun) eneth (pl. enith)
Sindarin
-i
suffix. adjectival suffix
Derivations
- ✶-ya “adjectival suffix” ✧ VT42/10
Element in
- S. serni “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ VT42/10
-il
suffix. feminine suffix
Element in
- S. brethil “princess, (lit.) queen-daughter”
- S. híril “lady, lady; [G.] princess, †queen” ✧ SA/heru
- ᴺS. regil “mare”
- S. Thuringwethil “Woman of Secret Shadow”
esta-
verb. to name
limlug
noun. fish-dragon, sea-serpent
eneth
noun. name
eneth
name
eneth
name
(pl. enith)
ess
noun. name
Cognates
- Q. essë “name”
esta
name
(verb.) esta- (call) (i esta, in estar)
esta
name
(call) (i esta, in estar)
lhûg
dragon
lhûg (construct lhug; with article ?i thlûg or ?i lûg the lenition product of lh is uncertain) (snake, serpent), pl. lhuig (?i luig), also amlug (pl. emlyg).
lhûg
dragon
(construct lhug; with article ?i thlûg or ?i lûg – the lenition product of lh is uncertain) (snake, serpent), pl. lhuig (?i luig), also amlug (pl. emlyg).
limlug
fish-dragon
(sea serpent), pl. limlyg
seidia
set aside
seidia- (appropriate to special purpose or owner) (i heidia, i seidiar) (VT42:20).
A fairly common feminine suffix appearing as -il in Sindarin, either formed on its own or as a variant of the feminine suffix -iel. This suffix was also common Noldorin words in The Etymologies of the 1930s, along with an alternate form -ril that seems to be a feminine agental suffix, the equivalent of masculine -(r)on, seen in pairs like N. melethril/melethron “lover” and N. odhril/odhron “parent” (Ety/MEL, ONO). The -il suffix and its -ril variant are seen all the way back in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s in pairs like G. gwadhril/gwadhron “inhabitant” (GL/47) and G. ainil/ainos “god”, female and male respectively (GL/18). So it seems this feminine suffix was well established in Tolkien’s mind.