maiwë

gull

maiwë noun "gull" (MIW), pl. maiwi in _Markirya. Cf. also the "Qenya" pl. maiwin "gulls" (MC:213)_

maiwë

noun. gull

A noun for “gull” appearing in its plural form maiwi in the Q. Markirya poem of the 1960s (MC/222). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹQ. maiwe “gull” was derived from the root ᴹ√MIW “whine” (Ety/MIW).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s the word was ᴱQ. māwe (māwi-) “gull” under the early root ᴱ√MAWA “cry, bleat” (QL/60), also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/60). In Early Qenya Word-lists from the 1920s Tolkien instead had vaiya or {maiwe >>} waiwe “seamew” (PE16/138), but in the version of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem from circa 1930, Tolkien used maiwe in its nominative plural form maiwin “gulls” (MC/213).

Cognates

• S. maew “gull”

Derivations

• ᴹ√MIW “whine”

Element in

• Q. ve maiwi yaimië “like gulls wailing” ✧ MC/222

Variations

• maiwe ✧ PE22/148 (maiwe)

mŷl

noun. gull

mŷl

noun. gull

A word for “gull” in the name S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” (WJ/379); its singular and plural forms would be the same. It might be derived from ✱miulē < ᴹ√MIW “whine”, the basis for other “gull” words, since iu became ȳ in Sindarin. I’d recommend using the better attested S. maew “gull” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.

Derivations

• ᴹ√MIW “whine”

Element in

• S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” ✧ WJ/379

gwael

noun. gull

maew

noun. gull

A noun for “gull” first appearing as N. maew in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√MIW “whine” (Ety/MIW). It appeared in later notes as an archaic genitive plural maewion in the phrase S. †glim maewion “(the) voices of gulls” (PE17/97). Its class plural mewrim seems to have appeared in S. Ras Mewrim “✱Cape of the Gulls”, an alternate name for S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” (WJ/190). If so, the vowel e would be the result of the sound change whereby ae sometimes became e in polysyllables.

Cognates

• Q. maiwë “gull”

Derivations

• ᴹ√MIW “whine”

Element in

• S. glim maewion “(the) voices of gulls” ✧ PE17/097
• S. Ras Mewrim “*Cape of the Gulls” ✧ WJ/190

m

gull

ŷl (i vŷl, construct myl), no distinct pl. form except with article (i mŷl).

cuen

small gull

(i guen, o chuen) (petrel), pl. ?cuin (?i chuin) (VT45:24)

paen

small gull

(i baen, o phaen) (petrel), no distinct pl. form except with article (i phaen). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” poen, VT45:24.

gwael

gull

(i ’wael), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwael)

maew

gull

1) maew (i vaew), no distinct pl. except with article (i maew), coll. pl. maewrim; 2) gwael (i **wael), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwael), 3) mŷl (i vŷl, construct myl), no distinct pl. form except with article (i mŷl**).

maew

gull

(i vaew), no distinct pl. except with article (i maew), coll. pl. maewrim

maew

noun. gull

maew

noun. gull

Cognates

• ᴹQ. maiwe “gull” ✧ Ety/MIW

Derivations

• ᴹ√MIW “whine” ✧ Ety/MIW

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√MIW > maew	[maiwe] > [maiw] > [maew]	✧ Ety/MIW