Qenya
tinúviel
feminine name. Tinúviel
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”
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.