Noldorin
elw
adjective. (pale) blue
Cognates
- ᴹQ. helwa “(pale) blue” ✧ Ety/ƷEL
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources On. elwa > elw [elwa] > [elw] > [elu] ✧ Ety/ƷEL
elw
adjective. (pale) blue
lhûn
adjective. blue
Cognates
- ᴹQ. lúne “blue, blue, [ᴱQ.] deep blue” ✧ Ety/LUG²
Derivations
Element in
- N. Eredluin “Blue Mountains” ✧ Ety/LUG²
- N. Lhûn “Blue River”
- N. Lhúnorodrim “Blue Mountains” ✧ Ety/LUG²
- N. Luindirien “Blue Towers” ✧ Ety/LUG²
- N. Tor-dilluin
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶lugni > lhûn [lugni] > [lugne] > [luŋne] > [lūne] > [lūn] > [l̥ūn] ✧ Ety/LUG² ᴹ✶lugni > luin [lugnī] > [lugni] > [luŋni] > [lūni] > [luin] > [l̥uin] ✧ Ety/LUG²
gael
adjective. pale, glimmering
glinn
noun. (pale) blue
Cognates
- ᴹQ.
ilin“pale blue” ✧ Ety/GLINDIDerivations
- ᴹ√
GLINDI“pale blue” ✧ Ety/GLINDIElement in
- N. Eredlindon “Mountains of Lindon, (earlier) Blue Mountains” ✧ Ety/GLINDI (
Ered-lindon); LR/405Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√GLINDI > glind > glinn [glindi] > [glinde] > [glind] > [glinn] ✧ Ety/GLINDI Variations
glinn✧ Ety/GLINDI (glinn)lind✧ LR/405
lhûn
adjective. (unknown meaning)
maidh
adjective. pale, fallow, fawn
meidh
adjective. pale, fallow, fawn
nim-
adjective. pale, white
nimp
adjective. pale, white
nimp
adjective. pale
Cognates
- ᴹQ. ninqe “white” ✧ Ety/NIK-W
Derivations
- ᴹ√NIK(W) “*snow; white” ✧ Ety/NIK-W
Element in
- N. Ered Nimras “White Mountains”
- N. Ered Nimrath “White Mountains”
- N. Ephel Nimrais
- N. Nimbrethil
- N. Nimloth “Pale Blossom”
- N. nimmid(a)- “to whiten” ✧ Ety/NIK-W
- N. Nimdil “White Horn”
- N. nínim “snowdrop”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NIK-W > nimp [niŋkwi] > [niŋkwe] > [nimpe] > [nimpʰe] > [nimɸe] > [nimfe] > [nimf] > [nimp] > [nimp] ✧ Ety/NIK-W
This word, which also appears on the map of Middle-earth in LotR, is glossed as "blue" in The Etymologies, but Tolkien later rejected this meaning (as luin was already used in that sense). He then proposed several explanations for it, including the possible adaptation of a Dwarvish name into Sindarin, but he apparently never reached a definitive solution.