Early Quenya
silmo
masculine name. the Moon
Cognates
- G. Silma “*Moon” ✧ GL/67; LT1A/Silmo; PE14/013
Derivations
- ᴱ√SILI “*gleam” ✧ LT1A/Sil; QL/083
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√SILI > Silmo [silmō] > [silmo] ✧ QL/083 Variations
- silmo ✧ PE15/75
Guardian of Silpion, one of the Two Trees, in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/73). In the Qenya Lexicon his name was glossed “the Moon” and given as a derivative of the root ᴱ√SILI (QL/83).