This word first appeared as ᴱQ. ar (arn-) “child” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/32) and its stem form arn- appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/32). The word reappeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/135), but in the Early Noldorin Dictionary the Qenya form was given as arne. In the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, the word appeared as ᴹQ. aran (arn-) “child” (PE21/19), but there is no sign of it from this point forward, probably displaced by Q. aran “king”.
Qenya
tindómerel
feminine name. Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight
Cognates
- N. Tinúviel “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight” ✧ Ety/SEL-D; Ety/TIN; PE19/033
Derivations
- ᴹ✶Tindōmiselde “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight” ✧ Ety/SEL-D; Ety/TIN; PE19/033
Elements
Word Gloss tindóme “(starry) twilight, starlit dusk” selde “child [f.]” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶tindōmiselde > Tindómerel [tindōmiselde] > [tindōmiseld] > [tindōmizeld] > [tindōmizel] > [tindōmirel] > [tindōmerel] ✧ Ety/SEL-D ᴹ✶Tindōmiselde > Tindómerel [tindōmiselde] > [tindōmiseld] > [tindōmizeld] > [tindōmizel] > [tindōmirel] > [tindōmerel] ✧ Ety/TIN ᴹ✶Tindōmi-seldĕ > Tindómisel > Tindómirel [tindōmiselde] > [tindōmiseld] > [tindōmizeld] > [tindōmizel] > [tindōmirel] ✧ PE19/033 Variations
- Tindomerel ✧ EtyAC/YEL (Tindomerel)
- Tindómirel ✧ PE19/033
lómelinde
noun. nightingale
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ✶dōmilindē “nightingale” ✧ SD/302
Elements
Word Gloss lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” linde “air, tune” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶dōmilindē > lōmelinde [dōmilindē] > [lōmilindē] > [lōmelindē] > [lōmelinde] ✧ SD/302 Variations
- lōmelindë ✧ LR/041
- lōmelinde ✧ SD/302
morilinde
noun. nightingale
Cognates
- Ilk. myrilind “nightingale” ✧ Ety/MOR
Elements
Word Gloss móre “blackness, dark, night” linde “air, tune”
aran
noun. child
Derivations
- ᴹ✶arān
Variations
- aran ✧ PE21/19
seldo
noun. child, child [m.], *boy
A word for a (male) child in The Etymologies of the 1930s added to its entry when the meaning of the root ᴹ√SEL-D was changed from “daughter” to “child” (Ety/SEL-D). It was written above its feminine equivalent ᴹQ. selde and an apparently neuter form ᴹQ. selda was written to the right, making seldo likely the masculine form as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/SEL-D), hence = “✱boy”.
Derivations
- ᴹ√SEL(D) “child, child; *daughter” ✧ Ety/SEL-D
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√SEL-D > seldo [seldo] ✧ Ety/SEL-D
A noun for “nightingale” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, a combination of ᴹQ. móre “night” and ᴹQ. linde “song” (Ety/MOR). Q. lómelindë “nightingale” is better attested.