gimil
collective noun. (all) stars; ?silver
Derivations
- √Ad. GIMIL “*star”
Element in
- Ad. Gimilkhâd
- Ad. Gimilnitîr “Star-kindler” ✧ SD/427
- Ad. Gimilzagar “?Sword of Stars”
- Ad. Gimilzôr “Star-?foam”
- Ad. Gimlad “Starwards”
gimil
gimil
Perhaps related to Khuzdul kibil "silver"
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gimil
root. *star
One of the roots Tolkien used to illustrate various processes of Primitive Adûnaic word formation (SD/422-5). It also seems to be the basis of words related to stars, such as gimli.
Derivatives
Variations
- GIM’L ✧ SD/434
A collective-noun meaning “all the stars of the heavens”, as opposed to gimli which was used for an individual star (SD/427). The element gimil appears in many names, including several later names in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne suggested (AAD/15) that it may be related to the Elvish root √(Ñ)GIL “shine (white)”.
Andreas Moehn suggested (EotAL/KH-B-L) that if the later name Gimilzôr means “Silver-fire”, its initial element gimil could instead mean “silver”, perhaps as a cognate of Dwarvish kibil. If so, this alternate meaning could either be a homonym of gimil “stars”, or a new meaning for gimil in Tolkien’s later works.