Early Quenya
uole kúvion
proper name. Man in the Moon, Moonking
Cognates
- G. Ûl Cuvonweg “Moonking” ✧ GL/27; LT1A/Uolë Kúvion
- G.
Ûl Thilgodrin“a full moon” ✧ GL/72Variations
- Ōle Kūmion ✧ GL/27; GL/72
- Uolë Kúvion ✧ LT1/198; LT1A/Uolë Kúvion; LT1I/Uolë Kúvion
- Ólë Kúmion ✧ LT1A/Uolë Kúvion
Name of the Man in the Moon in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/193), his second name is clearly related to kú “crescent moon”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Uolë Kúvion), but the meaning of his first name is unclear. In the Gnomish Lexicon his first name was instead Óle (GL/27, GL/72).