Noldorin
ungoliant
feminine name. Gloomweaver
Cognates
- ᴹQ. Ungoliante “Gloomweaver” ✧ SMI/Ungoliant
Variations
- Ungoliant(e) ✧ WRI/Ungoliant(e)
delduthling
feminine name. Ungoliant, *(lit.) Horror Night Spider
Elements
Word Gloss del “horror” dû “night, night-fall, late evening” thling “spider, spider’s web, cobweb” Variations
- Del-du-thling ✧ Ety/DOƷ
- Del-duthling ✧ Ety/DYEL
- Deldu-thling ✧ Ety/SLIG
Another name for Ungoliant appearing on in The Etymologies from the 1930s, a combination of del “horror”, dû “night” and thling “spider” (Ety/DYEL, DOƷ, SLIG).