[nyel an (incomplete?) word occurring in the deleted entry NYELED in the Etymologies, VT46:7). Compare perhaps the final element of Falanyel, #Solonyel]
Quenya
Falanyel
shore-singers
nyel
nyel
nyello
singer
nyello noun "singer" (NYEL). Compare the final element of Falanyel, #Solonyel, q.v
linda
proper name. Singer
The name that the Teleri used to refer to themselves, usually appearing in the plural form Lindar and glossed “The Singers” (SI/Teleri, UT/286). They were so called because in legend, they sang before they could speak with words (WJ/382). The name was derived from the root √LIN “sing” (SA/lin, WJ/382).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name was used for the first tribe, with the gloss “The Fair” (LR/168). It usually appeared as a collective noun, but sometimes appeared in the singular (PE22/51). In The Etymologies, it is given as ᴹQ. linda “fair, beautiful (of sound)” used as a name (Ety/LIND). In later writings, the name of the first tribe became the Vanyar, and Tolkien repurposed this name as another name of the third tribe with a slightly different derivation and meaning.
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Lindalambë “Language of the Lindar”
- Q. Lindarin “*of the Lindar”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √lin- > Lindar [lindar] ✧ SA/lin² ✶Lindāi > Lindar [lindar] ✧ WJ/378 ✶lindā > Lindar [lindā] > [linda] ✧ WJ/380 ✶Lindā > Lindar [lindā] > [linda] ✧ WJ/382
lindo
singer, singing bird
lindo noun "singer, singing bird" (LIN2)
Falanyel (Falanyeld-, as in pl. Falanyeldi), noun, (in the pl.) a name of the Teleri, apparently *"Shore-singers" (PHAL/PHÁLAS)