Noldorin
cîl
noun. cleft, pass between hills, gorge
cîl
noun. cleft, pass between hills, gorge
amon
noun. hill, steep-sided mount
amon
noun. hill
criss
noun. cleft, cut, slash
eden
adjective. new, begun again
mindon
noun. isolated hill, especially a hill with a watch tower
mindon
noun. tower
sein
adjective. new
sein
adjective. new
thanc
adjective. cleft, split, forked
tund
noun. hill, mound
tunn
noun. hill, mound
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s, the equivalent of ᴹQ. kilya “cleft, pass between hills, gorge” and a derivative of ᴹ√KIL “divide” (Ety/KIL). Its most notable use was in the transient name N. Cilthoron(dor); this name eventually became S. Cirith Thoronath “Eagles’ Cleft”, so likely N. cîl became S. cirith.