nyello noun "singer" (NYEL). Compare the final element of Falanyel, #Solonyel, q.v
Quenya
linda
proper name. Singer
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Lindalambë “Language of the Lindar”
- Q. Lindarin “*of the Lindar”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √lin- > Lindar [lindar] ✧ SA/lin² ✶Lindāi > Lindar [lindar] ✧ WJ/378 ✶lindā > Lindar [lindā] > [linda] ✧ WJ/380 ✶Lindā > Lindar [lindā] > [linda] ✧ WJ/382
nyello
singer
lírë
song
lírë noun "song", stem #líri- in the instrumental form lírinen "in [the] song" or *"by [the] song" (Nam, RGEO:67)
lírë
noun. song
Derivations
- √LIR “sing, warble, sing, warble, [ᴹ√] trill” ✧ PE17/067
Element in
- ᴺQ. airilírë “hymn”
- Q. ómaryo airetári-lírinen “in the song of her voice, holy and queenly” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. ómaryo lírinen airetário “in [by means of] her voice’s song, of the holy-queen” ✧ RGEO/59
- Q. lírinen ómo i·aire tário “by the song of the voice of the holy queen” ✧ PE17/076
- Q. lírinen ómo i·aire táríva “by the song of the voice of the holy queen” ✧ PE17/076
- Q. tintilar lirinen ómaryo Airë-tário ✧ PM/364
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LIR > līrĭ- [līri] > [līre] ✧ PE17/067 Variations
- líre ✧ PE17/067
lindo
singer, singing bird
lindo noun "singer, singing bird" (LIN2)
lindë
air, tune, singing, song
lindë noun "air, tune, singing, song" (SA:gond, (LIN2, [GLIN]); lindelorendor "music-dream-land"; see laurelindórenan lindelorendor... _(LotR2:III ch. 4, cf. Letters:308). _Also compare lindi- in lindimaitar, q.v. (but the other compounds here cited do not give a lindë a stem-form lindi-).
lindë
noun. singing, song, musical sound, singing, song, musical sound; [ᴹQ.] air, tune
Cognates
- S. lind “song, chant, singing; singer, song, chant, singing, [N.] air, tune; [N. and S.] singer”
Derivations
- √LIN “sing, make a musical sound, sing, make a musical sound, [ᴱ√] gentle”
Element in
- ᴺQ. airalindë “hymn, (lit.) holy song”
- Q. Laurelin “Song of Gold, Singing Gold”
- Q. Laurelindórenan “(Land of the) Valley of Singing Gold” ✧ Let/308; NM/351
- ᴺQ. lindëa “singing, *musical”
- ᴺQ. lindelin “melody, tune”
- Q. Lindelorendor “Singing-dream-land” ✧ Let/308; PE17/080
- ᴺQ. lindelos “laburnum, (lit.) singing cluster”
- Q. lindimaitar “composer, musician” ✧ PE17/163
- Q. Lindissë “*Singer (f.)”
- ᴺQ. lindista “music album”
- Q. Lindórië
- Q. lómelindë “nightingale, (lit.) dusk-singer”
- ᴺQ. nainalindë “dirge, (lit.) lament-song”
- ᴺQ. olindë “harmony”
- Q. Ondolindë “Rock of the Music of Water, (lit.) Singing Stone” ✧ SA/gond
vilwa
air, lower air
[vilwa < wilwa] noun "air, lower air" (distinct from the 'upper' air of the stars, or the 'outer') (WIL; in one place vilwa was not struck out, VT46:21) According to VT46:21, Tolkien considered vilda < wilda as a replacement form, but rejected it.
wilma
air, lower air
wilma noun "air, lower air" (distinct from the 'upper' air of the stars, or the 'outer') (WIL)
vilya
air, sky
vilya noun "air, sky", also name of tengwa #24. Older wilya. (Appendix E). Early "Qenya" has Vilya (changed from Vilna) "lower air" (LT1:273); also vilya "air" (MC:215)
lirusta
noun. singing, chant
lindëa
adjective. singing, *musical
Elements
Word Gloss lindë “singing, song, musical sound, singing, song, musical sound; [ᴹQ.] air, tune”
The name that the Teleri used to refer to themselves, usually appearing in the plural form Lindar and glossed “The Singers” (SI/Teleri, UT/286). They were so called because in legend, they sang before they could speak with words (WJ/382). The name was derived from the root √LIN “sing” (SA/lin, WJ/382).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name was used for the first tribe, with the gloss “The Fair” (LR/168). It usually appeared as a collective noun, but sometimes appeared in the singular (PE22/51). In The Etymologies, it is given as ᴹQ. linda “fair, beautiful (of sound)” used as a name (Ety/LIND). In later writings, the name of the first tribe became the Vanyar, and Tolkien repurposed this name as another name of the third tribe with a slightly different derivation and meaning.