Noldorin
gildin
noun. silver spark
gildin
noun. silver spark
tint
noun. spark
tint
noun. spark
Derivations
- ᴹ√TIN “sparkle, emit slender (silver pale) beams” ✧ Ety/TIN
Element in
- N. Tinfang “Starbeard”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TIN > tint [tinte] > [tintʰe] > [tinθe] > [tinθ] > [tint] ✧ Ety/TIN
tinw
noun. spark, small star
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “silver spark”, a combination of the root ᴹ√GIL and ᴹ√TIN (Ety/TIN). Presumably this refers to stars, since both roots also have derivatives referring to stars.