According to VT/46:16, N chwind, chwinn are not adjectives (see Etym/388), but nouns with the meaning "eddy" (cf. Q hwinde).
>> chwind
Noldorin
chwinn
noun. eddy
Cognates
- ᴹQ. hwinde “eddy, whirlpool” ✧ Ety/SWIN
Derivations
- ᴹ√SWIN “whirl, eddy” ✧ Ety/SWIN
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√SWIN > chwind > chwinn [swinde] > [w̥inde] > [xwinde] > [xwind] > [xwinn] ✧ Ety/SWIN
chwinn
adjective. twirling, whirling
chwind
adjective. twirling, whirling
chwinn
noun. eddy
chwind
noun. eddy
According to VT/46:16, N chwind, chwinn are not adjectives (see Etym/388), but nouns with the meaning "eddy" (cf. Q hwinde).
>> chwinn
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing as N. chwinn “eddy, whirlpool” and derived from the root ᴹ√SWIN “whirl, eddy” (Ety/SWIN). Christopher Tolkien marked it as an “adj.” in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, but this was a misreading of the gloss “eddy” as reported by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/SWIN). If adapted to Neo-Sindarin, this word would become ᴺS. hwind, as suggested in HSD (HSD).