Sindarin 

terchil

noun. 'high-Men'

pl1. n. 'high-Men', ancient name of the Edain. A S. form not used. Q. tarcildi, prob. Orkish tark. >> Adan

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terchil

collective name. High-men

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.

Cognates

  • Q. Tarcil “High Man, Númenórean” ✧ PE17/101

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
tarkhildī > terchil[tarkʰildī] > [tarkʰildi] > [tarxildi] > [tarxilði] > [terxilði] > [terxilð] > [terxill] > [terxil]✧ PE17/101

Variations

  • terchil ✧ PE17/101 (terchil)
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