Noldorin
cuil
noun. life
cuil
noun. life, life, [G.] lifetime
Cognates
- ᴹQ. kuile “life, being alive” ✧ Ety/KUY
Derivations
- ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KUY > cuil [kujle] > [kuile] > [kuil] ✧ Ety/KUY
A noun for “life” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY).
Conceptual Development: This word dates back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where Tolkien clarified that G. cuil “life” was “usually [the] quality of being alive, but [was] also used = lifetime” (GL/27). ᴱN. cuil “life” also appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141).