A noun for “twilight” developed from primitive ᴹ✶dōmi (Ety/DOMO), where the long [[ilk|[ō] became [ū] before [m]]].
Doriathrin
muil
noun. twilight, shadow, vagueness
Cognates
- ᴹQ. muile “secrecy” ✧ Ety/MUY
Derivations
- ᴹ√MUY “*secret” ✧ Ety/MUY
Element in
- Ilk. muilin “secret, veiled” ✧ Ety/MUY
- N. Kerin-muil
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MUY > muil [mujlē] > [muilē] > [muile] > [muil] ✧ Ety/MUY
dûm
noun. twilight
Derivations
Element in
- Ilk. tindum “(starry) twilight, starlight” ✧ Ety/DOMO
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶dōmi- > dûm [dōmi] > [dōme] > [dūme] > [dūm] ✧ Ety/DOMO
A Doriathrin noun meaning “twilight, shadow, vagueness” derived from root ᴹ√MUY (Ety/MUY). Its Quenya cognate ᴹQ. muile suggests a primitive form of ✱✶muı̯lē [mujlē].
Conceptual Development: Tolkien seems to have coined this word to explain Umboth Muilin “Twilight Meres”, a remnant of earlier G. Umboth-muilin “Pools of Twilight”. The meaning of the Ilkorin elements is reversed from the earlier name: in the Gnomish name muilin “pools” was the plural form of the word G. muil, glossed “tarn” in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/58) which is an older English word for “(mountain) lake”. In later writings, Tolkien replaced this name with S. Aelin-uial “Meres of Twilight”.