Qenya
tuilindo
noun. swallow, (lit.) spring-singer
Cognates
- N. tuilinn “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer” ✧ Ety/LIN²; Ety/TUY
Derivations
- ᴹ✶tuilelindō “spring-singer, swallow” ✧ Ety/TUY
Elements
Word Gloss tuile “spring, spring-time” lindo “singer, singing bird” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶tuilelindō > tuilindo [tuilelindō] > [tuilindō] > [tuilindo] ✧ Ety/TUY
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “swallow, spring-singer”, a combination of ᴹQ. tuile “spring” and ᴹQ. lindo “singer” (Ety/LIN², TUY).
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. tuilindo “spring-singer, swallow” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TUẎU, apparently with the same derivation as it had in the 1930s (QL/96). Tuilindo “swallow” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/96).