tecil

pen

tecil ("k")noun "pen" (TEK, PM:318, VT47:8)

tecil

noun. pen

Cognates

• S. tegil “pen” ✧ PM/318; VT47/08

Derivatives

• S. tegil “pen” ✧ VT47/08

Variations

• tekil ✧ PM/318; VT47/08

tegil

noun. pen

Sindarized form of Quenya tekil, not known to the Sindar until the coming of the Ñoldor (but see however tegol for a possible dialectal variant)

tegil

noun. pen

Cognates

• Q. tecil “pen” ✧ PM/318; VT47/08

Derivations

• Q. tecil “pen” ✧ VT47/08

Element in

• S. Findegil “King’s Writer”
• S. Tegilbor “*Pen-fist” ✧ PM/318; VT47/08

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
Q. tekil > tegil	[tekil] > [tegil]	✧ VT47/08

tegil

pen

tegil (i degil, o thegil), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thegil) (PM:318). Also (at least in ”Noldorin”) tegol (i degol, o thegol), analogical pl. tegyl (i thegyl)

tegil

pen

(i degil, o thegil), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thegil) (PM:318). Also (at least in ”Noldorin”) tegol (i degol, o thegol), analogical pl. tegyl (i thegyl)

tekma

noun. pen

Variations

• mā ✧ PE17/044

tegol

noun. pen

It is stated in PM/318 that " tegil was a Sindarized form of Quenya tekil "pen", not known to the Sindar until the coming of the Ñoldor". It must be assumed therefore that tegol was either rejected by Tolkien, or that it may perhaps have been considered as a dialectal variant. For a similar case where both a true Sindarin/Noldorin word and a Sindarized form conceivably coexist, see magol and megil "sword" (it is unlikely that weapons were not known to the Sindar before the coming of the Ñoldor)

tegol

noun. pen

Cognates

• ᴹQ. tekil “pen” ✧ Ety/TEK

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tekla “pen” ✧ Ety/TEK
  • ᴹ√TEK “write or draw (signs or letters), make a mark” ✧ Ety/TEK

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tekla > tegl > tegol	[tekla] > [tekl] > [tegl] > [tegol]	✧ Ety/TEK

tegl

noun. pen

It is stated in PM/318 that " tegil was a Sindarized form of Quenya tekil "pen", not known to the Sindar until the coming of the Ñoldor". It must be assumed therefore that tegol was either rejected by Tolkien, or that it may perhaps have been considered as a dialectal variant. For a similar case where both a true Sindarin/Noldorin word and a Sindarized form conceivably coexist, see magol and megil "sword" (it is unlikely that weapons were not known to the Sindar before the coming of the Ñoldor)