Sindarin
terchil
collective name. High-men
Cognates
- Q. Tarcil “High Man, Númenórean” ✧ PE17/101
Derivations
- ✶tarkhilde “high-Men” ✧ PE17/101
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tarkhildī > terchil [tarkʰildī] > [tarkʰildi] > [tarxildi] > [tarxilði] > [terxilði] > [terxilð] > [terxill] > [terxil] ✧ PE17/101 Variations
- terchil ✧ PE17/101 (terchil)
A hypothetical Sindarin equivalent of Q. Tarcil(di) (PE17/101). This term was not used, but is what the Sindarin word would have been if it had developed from the primitive plural ✶tarkhildī.
Conceptual Development: A similar term N. Torfir appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s, probably a combination of taur “high” and feir “mortal man” (EtyAC/TĀ). Torfir also appeared in an earlier version of Glorfindel’s greeting to Aragorn in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/61), where it was a precursor to S. Dúnadan. It seems that in Tolkien’s later conception, Tolkien only used the term Dúnedain to refer to the High Men of the West in Sindarin.