Name for the region of Air in Silmarillion notes from the 1930s (SM/236). It is simply vista “air as substance” used as a name.
Qenya
wilma
noun. inner or lower air
qilir
noun. quiet
vista
place name. Air
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wilma
noun. inner or lower air
qilir
noun. quiet
vista
place name. Air
Name for the region of Air in Silmarillion notes from the 1930s (SM/236). It is simply vista “air as substance” used as a name.
The noun ᴱQ. qilde or qille “quiet, rest, hush” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QḶÐḶ (QL/44). Qilde also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as equivalent to (deleted) G. clidhron (GL/23). The Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s instead had noun ᴹQ. qilir “quiet” derived from primitive ᴹ✶ku̯ilẹz (PE21/33-34), based on a similar root.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I prefer ᴺQ. quildë “quiet, rest, hush” as most compatible with its adjective form ᴺQ. quilda “quiet, hushed, still” and the later Quenya syncope.