thin

root. *grey

tin

root. sparkle, emit slender (silver pale) beams

nindi

root. fragile, thin

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fragile, thin” with derivatives like ᴹQ. ninde/N. ninn “slender” (Ety/NIN-DI), replacing deleted ᴹ√NIN-DA “blue” (EtyAC/NIN-DI) which was probably a later manifestation of ᴱ√NINI “✱blue” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/66). ᴱ√NINI had derivatives in both Qenya and Gnomish in the 1910s, but there are no signs of nin- as “blue” in Tolkien’s later writing.

slinyā

adjective. lean, thin, meagre

akrā

adjective. narrow

andā

adjective. long

span

root. white

tainā

adjective. long

terēn(ē)

adjective. slender

winyē

noun. evening