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Gnomish

duilin

masculine name. Swallow

Changes

  • Duilin → Fuilin ✧ LBI/Fuilin
  • Duliglin → Duilin ✧ LT2/203
  • Duliglin → Duilin ✧ LT2I/Duilin

Cognates

Element in

  • G. Nos Duilin “*People of Duilin” ✧ LT2A/Duilin; PE15/22
  • G. Thlim Duilin “*Folk of the Swallow” ✧ PE13/104

Variations

  • Duliglin ✧ LT2/203 (Duliglin); LT2I/Duilin (Duliglin)
Gnomish [LBI/Duilin; LBI/Fuilin; LT2/203; LT2A/Duilin; LT2I/bo-Dhuilin; LT2I/Dhuilon; LT2I/Duilin; PE13/104; PE15/22] Group: Eldamo. Published by

duilinc

noun. swallow

duil

noun. swallow

Derivations

Variations

  • duil ✧ GL/31 (duil)

duilin(g)

noun. swallow

Changes

  • duili → duilinc ✧ GL/31

Cognates

  • Eq. tuilindo “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer” ✧ LT2A/Duilin; QL/096

Element in

  • G. Duilin “Swallow” ✧ LT2A/Duilin

Variations

  • duiling ✧ GL/31; QL/096
  • duilinc ✧ GL/31
  • duili ✧ GL/31 (duili)
  • duirilin ✧ GL/31 (duirilin)
  • duilin ✧ GL/39; GL/54
Gnomish [GL/23; GL/31; GL/39; GL/54; LT2A/Duilin; QL/096] Group: Eldamo. Published by

glindwil

noun. swallow

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s for the bird “swallow” with variants glindwil and lindwil, a combination of G. glin “sound” and the suffixal form -wil of G. bil bird (GL/39, 54).

Elements

WordGloss
glin“sound, voice, utterance”
bil“bird”

Variations

  • lindwil ✧ GL/31 (lindwil); GL/39; GL/54
Gnomish [GL/31; GL/39; GL/54] Group: Eldamo. Published by