Name ideas for a dog

Mae govannen!

In March my partner and I went to a Tolkien-themed tour in Switzerland. The guide was very passionate and brought us to the idea to search for a name in Sindarin or Quenya for our dog that we're about to adopt. It will be a a female corgi, so we're thinking of something with the word "cinta". But the problem is, that dog-names usually should be about 2 syllables and we'd have to just take cinta as is that way (which would just mean our dog means short :P). We'd like to combine it with something like "star", "friend" or companion but want to keep the name in a feminine tone. Would you have some ideas or suggestions? We'd appreciate it a lot!

Congrats on the new dog!

So, for Sindarin I would avoid cinta and would either use S. #pîn “little”

• pineth/pinil "small one", piniel "little-daughter"
• PI-neth IPA: 'pi.nɛθ/PI-nil IPA: 'pi.nil, PI-ni-el IPA: 'pi.ni.ɛl

or with the root √NIK “small”

• nigeth/nigil, "small one (female)", nigiel "small-daughter"
• NI-geth IPA: 'ni.gɛθ/NI-gil IPA: 'ni.gil, NI-gi-el IPA: 'ni.gi.ɛl
• ᴺS. nigol “mouse, (lit.) small one”
• NI-gol IPA: 'ni.gɔl

or something like these

• S. gwinig n. “little-one, baby”
• GWI-nig IPA: 'gwi.nig
• ᴺS. [G.] mib n. “(little) kiss, peck” > mibeth, mibiel
• MI-beth IPA: 'mi.bɛθ, MI-bi-el IPA: mi.bi.ɛl
• N. tithen adj. “little, tiny” > tithenil "little one (female)
• TI-the-nil IPA: 'ti.θɛ.nil

Thanks for the suggestions! Is cinta bad because its typically not combined with other words? Would just "cinta" work? Else we're liking one pf the "pin"- options :)

Well canta comes from √KIT “*small” ✧ PE17/157 and is unglossed in Sindarin.

A note from Eldamo.org

Tolkien gave the roots √KIN and √KIT with the gloss “small” in Notes on Names (NN) from 1957; given Sindarin derivative S. cidinn, √KIT is the likelier of the two possibilities (PE17/157).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I recommend against using the Quenya derivative of this root, as there are other better-known Quenya words for “small”. In Sindarin, however, we have fewer options, and I think it is worth retaining this root for that branch of the Eldarin languages.