A word for “gull” in the name S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” (WJ/379); its singular and plural forms would be the same. It might be derived from ✱miulē < ᴹ√MIW “whine”, the basis for other “gull” words, since iu became ȳ in Sindarin. I’d recommend using the better attested S. maew “gull” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.
Sindarin
maew
noun. gull
Cognates
- Q. maiwë “gull”
Derivations
- ᴹ√MIW “whine”
Element in
- S. glim maewion “(the) voices of gulls” ✧ PE17/097
- S. Ras Mewrim “*Cape of the Gulls” ✧ WJ/190
gwael
noun. gull
mŷl
noun. gull
mŷl
noun. gull
Derivations
- ᴹ√MIW “whine”
Element in
- S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” ✧ WJ/379
maew
gull
1) maew (i vaew), no distinct pl. except with article (i maew), coll. pl. maewrim; 2) gwael (i **wael), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwael), 3) mŷl (i vŷl, construct myl), no distinct pl. form except with article (i mŷl**).
maew
gull
(i vaew), no distinct pl. except with article (i maew), coll. pl. maewrim
paen
small gull
(i baen, o phaen) (petrel), no distinct pl. form except with article (i phaen). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” poen, VT45:24.
gwael
gull
(i ’wael), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwael)
m
gull
ŷl (i vŷl, construct myl), no distinct pl. form except with article (i mŷl).
cuen
small gull
(i guen, o chuen) (petrel), pl. ?cuin (?i chuin) (VT45:24)
A noun for “gull” first appearing as N. maew in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√MIW “whine” (Ety/MIW). It appeared in later notes as an archaic genitive plural maewion in the phrase S. †glim maewion “(the) voices of gulls” (PE17/97). Its class plural mewrim seems to have appeared in S. Ras Mewrim “✱Cape of the Gulls”, an alternate name for S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” (WJ/190). If so, the vowel e would be the result of the sound change whereby ae sometimes became e in polysyllables.