mad-

verb. to eat

mad-

verb. to eat

chwiniol

noun. whirling, giddy, fantastic

chwiniol

adjective. whirling, giddy, mad, fantastic

A word appearing N. chwiniol “whirling, giddy, mad, fantastic” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, an adjectival form of N. chwinia- “twirl, whirl, eddy” (Ety/SWIN; EtyAC/SWIN). The gloss “mad” was missing from The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/388) but was noted by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/16).

Neo-Sindarin: Many Neo-Sindarin writers adapted this word as ᴺS. hwiniol “whirling, giddy, mad, fantastic” since ancient initial *sw* became *hw* in Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s rather than chw as it did in Noldorin of the 1930s and 40s. I prefer ᴺS. whiniol as more consistent with Tolkien’s orthography in the 1950s and 60s.