cf. Q ilmen
Noldorin
gilith
noun. starlight, *region of the stars
Changes
- Gilwen → Gilfen “starlight” ✧ EtyAC/GIL
Cognates
Elements
Word Gloss geil “star” -th “abstract noun” Variations
- Gilwen ✧ Ety/GIL (Gilwen)
- Gilith ✧ Ety/GIL
- Gilfen ✧ EtyAC/GIL
gilgalad
noun. starlight
gil-galad
masculine name. Starlight
Elements
Word Gloss geil “star” calad “light” Variations
- gilgalad ✧ Ety/GIL
- Gilgalad ✧ SDI2/Gilgalad
gilith
noun. region above air where stars are
A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “starlight” under the root ᴹ√GIL “shine (white or pale)” with variant forms Gilith and {?Gilwen >>} Gilfen (Ety/GIL; EtyAC/GIL). Elsewhere in The Etymologies, Tolkien compared gilith to N. gwilith “air as a region” and equated it to ᴹQ. Ilmen (Ety/WIL), so it seems Tolkien also intended it to mean “region of the stars”, though Gilfen is more likely as the direct cognate of ᴹQ. Ilmen.