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Gnomish

duil

noun. swallow

Derivations

Variations

  • duil ✧ GL/31 (duil)

duil

noun. flight, power of flight; having power of flight, fledged

Derivations

Element in

  • G. duila- “to fly” ✧ GL/31
  • G. duileg “having power of flight, fledged” ✧ GL/31

Variations

  • duil ✧ GL/23; GL/31; GL/31; GL/31
Gnomish [GL/23; GL/31] Group: Eldamo. Published by

duilin

masculine name. Swallow

Changes

  • DuilinFuilin ✧ LBI/Fuilin
  • DuliglinDuilin ✧ LT2/203
  • DuliglinDuilin ✧ LT2I/Duilin

Cognates

Element in

  • G. Nos Duilin “*People of Duilin” ✧ LT2A/Duilin; PE15/22
  • G. Thlim Duilin “*Folk of the Swallow” ✧ PE13/104

Variations

  • Duliglin ✧ LT2/203 (Duliglin); LT2I/Duilin (Duliglin)
Gnomish [LBI/Duilin; LBI/Fuilin; LT2/203; LT2A/Duilin; LT2I/bo-Dhuilin; LT2I/Dhuilon; LT2I/Duilin; PE13/104; PE15/22] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tuil

noun. spring

Cognates

  • Eq. tuile “spring, (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green” ✧ LT1A/Tuilérë

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TUẎU “*spring, sprout” ✧ LT1A/Tuilérë

Element in

  • G. tuilir “spring(time)” ✧ GL/71; LT1A/Tuilérë

Variations

  • duil ✧ GL/31 (duil); LT2A/Duilin (duil)
  • Tuil ✧ GL/47
Gnomish [GL/31; GL/47; GL/71; LT1A/Tuilérë; LT2A/Duilin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

duilinc

noun. swallow

duilin(g)

noun. swallow

Changes

  • duiliduilinc ✧ GL/31

Cognates

  • Eq. tuilindo “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer” ✧ LT2A/Duilin; QL/096

Element in

  • G. Duilin “Swallow” ✧ LT2A/Duilin

Variations

  • duiling ✧ GL/31; QL/096
  • duilinc ✧ GL/31
  • duili ✧ GL/31 (duili)
  • duirilin ✧ GL/31 (duirilin)
  • duilin ✧ GL/39; GL/54
Gnomish [GL/23; GL/31; GL/39; GL/54; LT2A/Duilin; QL/096] Group: Eldamo. Published by

glindwil

noun. swallow

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s for the bird “swallow” with variants glindwil and lindwil, a combination of G. glin “sound” and the suffixal form -wil of G. bil bird (GL/39, 54).

Elements

WordGloss
glin“sound, voice, utterance”
bil“bird”

Variations

  • lindwil ✧ GL/31 (lindwil); GL/39; GL/54
Gnomish [GL/31; GL/39; GL/54] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aithl

noun. spring

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ektḷ ✧ GL/18; LT2A/Ecthelion
    • ᴱ√KELE “flow, run; ooze, trickle”

Element in

  • G. aithla- “to spring (from), issue forth, bubble up” ✧ GL/18

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ektḷ > aithl[ektl] > [exθl] > [eiθl] > [aiθl]✧ GL/18

Variations

  • aithel ✧ LT2A/Ecthelion
  • aithyl ✧ PE13/108
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/25; GL/31; LT2A/Ecthelion; PE13/108] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aithyl

noun. spring

nôl

noun. head

Cognates

  • Eq. nóla “summit, head, top (only used of mountains etc.); (round) hill; crown of head” ✧ GL/61

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶nold ✧ GL/61
    • ᴱ√NOHO “extended”
    • ᴱ√ƷONO “hard” ✧ QL/066; QL/067

sîr

noun. river

Cognates

  • Eq. sindi “river” ✧ LT1A/Sirion

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SIÐI “flow” ✧ LT1A/Sirion

Element in

  • G. siriol “flowing, fluent, liquid, melliflous” ✧ GL/67
  • G. Sirion “†river” ✧ GL/67; LT1A/Sirion
  • G. Thorn Sir “Eagle-stream” ✧ LT1A/Sirion

Variations

  • Sîr ✧ GL/67
Gnomish [GL/67; LT1A/Sirion] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hairen

feminine name. Spring

Gnomish [GL/47; LT1A/Tuilérë] Group: Eldamo. Published by