Quenya 

timpinë

spray

timpinë noun "spray" (LT1:268)

Sindarin 

gwing

spray

1) (blown off wave-tops) gwing (i **wing) (foam, spindrift, spume), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing); 2) (of fall or fountain) ross (construct ros) (foam, rain, dew), pl. ryss (idh ryss**). (Letters:282) Note: homophones mean ”reddish, russet, copper-coloured, red-haired” and also ”polished metal, glitter”.

gwing

spray

(i ’wing) (foam, spindrift, spume), no distinct pl. form except with article (in gwing)

ross

spray

(construct ros) (foam, rain, dew), pl. ryss (idh ryss). (Letters:282) Note: homophones mean ”reddish, russet, copper-coloured, red-haired” and also ”polished metal, glitter”.


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Early Quenya

timpine

noun. spray

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “spray”, derived from the root ᴱ√TIPI (QL/92).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TIPI “*spray” ✧ LT1A/Timpinen; QL/092

Element in

  • Eq. timpina “fine, powdered, sprayed” ✧ QL/092
  • Eq. timpínea “made of spray, full of fine showers, showery (of weather)” ✧ QL/092

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TIPI > timpine[timpinē] > [timpine]✧ QL/092

Variations

  • timpinë ✧ LT1A/Timpinen
Early Quenya [LT1A/Timpinen; PME/092; QL/092] Group: Eldamo. Published by