Tindómiel, fem. name (UT:210), probably *"daughter of twilight" (tindómë + -iel) and thus the equivalent of Sindarin Tinúviel. Compare tindómerel.
Quenya
tindómë
starry twilight, starlit dusk
tindómë
noun. (starry) twilight, (usually) time near dawn, (starry) twilight, time near dawn, [ᴹQ.] starlit dusk
Cognates
Element in
- Q. Tindómerel “Daughter of Twilight” ✧ SA/tin
- Q. Tindómiel “*Daughter of Twilight”
Elements
Word Gloss tinwë “spark, [apparent] star” lómë “night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness, night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness, [ᴹQ.] night-time, shades of night, gloom; [ᴱQ.] shadow, cloud” Variations
- Tindómë ✧ NM/280
Tindómiel
daughter of twilight
tindómerel
daughter of twilight
tindómerel (also capitalized Tindómerel) fem. name "daughter of twilight", a kenning (poetic name) of the nightingale; = Sindarin Tinúviel. (TIN, SEL-D, SA:tin; "Tindómrl" in mirrored Tengwar in VT47:37 would seem to be an incomplete annotation of the same word). The form Tindómiel (UT:210) could well be an alternative Quenya equivalent of Tinúviel, and it is possibly to be preferred because the status of the ending -rel "daughter" is uncertain (it was to represent older -zel, -sel corresponding to the independent word seldë, but Tolkien changed the meaning of this word from "daughter" to "child", and since the word for "child" appears as hína in later texts, it may be that seldë and the corresponding ending -rel were dropped altogether).
tindómerel
feminine name. Daughter of Twilight
The Quenya name of Tinúviel (SA/tin, PE19/73). Since she was a Sindarin elf, this name is largely theoretical, as a development from the same primitive form: ✶Tindōmiselde. This name is a compound of tindómë and a suffixal form -rel of seldë “daughter”. In a couple places, Tolkien used this name to illustrated the development of primitive intervocalic ✶[s] into Quenya [r] (PE19/33, 73).
Conceptual Development: The earliest “Qenya” name for Tinúviel was ᴹQ. Tinúviel in linguistic notes from the early 1930s; it was declined in various noun cases, and was clearly intended to be a purely Qenya name rather than an adaptation of the Noldorin Tinúviel (PE21/35). The name ᴹQ. Tindómerel appeared in The Etymologies from the mid-1930s, where it already had the derivation described above (Ety/SEL-D, TIN). In some notes on Quenya phonology from the 1930s, this name appeared as Tindómirel with a medial i (PE19/33), but in a revision of those notes from the 1950s it was reverted back to Tindómerel (PE19/73). It appeared as (Tindómrl) in some examples of left-handed tengwar writing from the 1960s (VT47/37); Tolkien probably neglected to add the vowel diacritics in this case.
Cognates
- S. Tinúviel “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight” ✧ PE19/073; SA/tin
Derivations
- ✶Tindōmiselde “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight” ✧ PE19/073
Elements
Word Gloss tindómë “(starry) twilight, (usually) time near dawn, (starry) twilight, time near dawn, [ᴹQ.] starlit dusk” seldë “daughter, daughter; [ᴹQ.] child [f.], *girl” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tindōmi-sel(dĕ) > tindómizel > tindómerel [tindōmiselde] > [tindōmiseld] > [tindōmizeld] > [tindōmizel] > [tindōmirel] > [tindōmerel] ✧ PE19/073 Variations
- tindómerel ✧ PE19/073; SA/tin
- Tindómrl ✧ VT47/37
undómë
twilight
undómë noun "twilight", usually of the time near evening, not near dawn (that is tindómë)
yualë
twilight
yualë noun "twilight" (KAL). Also yúcalë. Cf. yúyal.
yúcalë
twilight
yúcalë ("k")noun "twilight" (KAL, VT45:13). Also yualë.
yúyal
twilight
yúyal noun "twilight" (PE17:169); cf. yualë, yúcalë, q.v.
yúyal
noun. twilight
Cognates
- S. uial “twilight, evendim” ✧ PE17/153; PE17/169
Derivations
- ✶yuyuñal “twilight” ✧ PE17/169
Elements
Word Gloss yu- “both, both, [ᴱQ.] twice” GAL “light; shine, be bright” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶yuy(u)ŋal > yúyal [jujŋal] > [jujɣal] > [jujal] > [jūjal] ✧ PE17/169 Variations
- úyale ✧ PE17/153
úyalë
noun. twilight
tindómë noun "starry twilight, starlit dusk" (DOMO, TIN, SA:tin), usually of the time near dawn, not near evening (SA:tin)