celebren (< celebrina “silver-like”) + tâl (“foot”) [HKF] nd didn’t became nn when n and d come from different elements of a compound.
Sindarin
Celebrindal
noun. a title of Idril
Celebrindal
noun. silver foot
celebrindal
feminine name. Silverfoot
Sobriquet of Idril, translated “Silver-foot” (S/126). Her name is a combination of celebrin “silver” and the lenited form -dal of tâl “foot” (SA/celeb, tal).
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this name appeared as G. Talceleb “Silver Feet” (LT2/165, 216). In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, Tolkien changed the name to N. Celebrindal “Silver-foot” (SM/143, LR/141), though in The Etymologies it appeared in a variant (lenited) form Gelebrendal with an e replacing the i (Ety/KYELEP).
Cognates
- Q. Tyeleptalëa “Silver-footed”
Elements
Word Gloss celebrin “like silver (in hue or worth), like silver (in hue or worth), [G.] of silver” tâl “foot; [lower] end”
_prop. n. _a title of Idril. >> Idril. This gloss was rejected.