A name for the moon in linguistic notes from 1930s (PE21/38, 41), perhaps a derivative of the root ᴹ√NDŪ “go down”, though this root usually applied to the Sun. Its dual form Nunt referred to both the sun and moon (PE21/38).
Qenya
nil
noun. blue-bell, harebell
nú
proper name. Moon
Derivations
- ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)”
kumna
adjective. empty
Cognates
- N. caun “empty, void” ✧ Ety/KUM; Ety/KUM
Derivations
- ᴹ√KUM “void” ✧ Ety/KUM
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KUM > kumna [kumna] ✧ Ety/KUM
A word in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s translated as “harebell” (PE21/19) or “blue-bell” (PE21/26), which are different English names for the same kind of flower.
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, ᴱQ. qille (qilli-) was “bluebell” based on the early root ᴱ√QILI having to do with colours (QL/77; PME/77). These documents also had a more elaborate form ᴱQ. {qillenen >>} qillinin (qillinind-) for “bluebell”, where the second element was probably ᴱQ. nin (nind-) “blue” (QL/66).