tindómë

starry twilight, starlit dusk

tindómë noun "starry twilight, starlit dusk" (DOMO, TIN, SA:tin), usually of the time near dawn, not near evening (SA:tin)

tindómë

noun. (starry) twilight, (usually) time near dawn, (starry) twilight, time near dawn, [ᴹQ.] starlit dusk

Cognates

• S. minuial “(dawn) twilight” ✧ LotR/1111
• S. tinnu “*twilight, [N.] (starry) twilight, dusk, early night (without moon)”

Element in

• Q. Tindómerel “Daughter of Twilight” ✧ SA/tin
• Q. Tindómiel “*Daughter of Twilight”

Elements

Word	Gloss
tinwë	“spark, [apparent] star”
lómë	“night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness, night, dimness, twilight, dusk, darkness, [ᴹQ.] night-time, shades of night, gloom; [ᴱQ.] shadow, cloud”

Variations

• Tindómë ✧ NM/280

Tindómiel

daughter of twilight

Tindómiel, fem. name (UT:210), probably *"daughter of twilight" (tindómë + -iel) and thus the equivalent of Sindarin Tinúviel. Compare tindómerel.

tindómerel

daughter of twilight

tindómerel (also capitalized Tindómerel) fem. name "daughter of twilight", a kenning (poetic name) of the nightingale; = Sindarin Tinúviel. (TIN, SEL-D, SA:tin; "Tindómrl" in mirrored Tengwar in VT47:37 would seem to be an incomplete annotation of the same word). The form Tindómiel (UT:210) could well be an alternative Quenya equivalent of Tinúviel, and it is possibly to be preferred because the status of the ending -rel "daughter" is uncertain (it was to represent older -zel, -sel corresponding to the independent word seldë, but Tolkien changed the meaning of this word from "daughter" to "child", and since the word for "child" appears as hína in later texts, it may be that seldë and the corresponding ending -rel were dropped altogether).

tindómerel

feminine name. Daughter of Twilight

The Quenya name of Tinúviel (SA/tin, PE19/73). Since she was a Sindarin elf, this name is largely theoretical, as a development from the same primitive form: ✶Tindōmiselde. This name is a compound of tindómë and a suffixal form -rel of seldë “daughter”. In a couple places, Tolkien used this name to illustrated the development of primitive intervocalic ✶[s] into Quenya [r] (PE19/33, 73).

Conceptual Development: The earliest “Qenya” name for Tinúviel was ᴹQ. Tinúviel in linguistic notes from the early 1930s; it was declined in various noun cases, and was clearly intended to be a purely Qenya name rather than an adaptation of the Noldorin Tinúviel (PE21/35). The name ᴹQ. Tindómerel appeared in The Etymologies from the mid-1930s, where it already had the derivation described above (Ety/SEL-D, TIN). In some notes on Quenya phonology from the 1930s, this name appeared as Tindómirel with a medial i (PE19/33), but in a revision of those notes from the 1950s it was reverted back to Tindómerel (PE19/73). It appeared as (Tindómrl) in some examples of left-handed tengwar writing from the 1960s (VT47/37); Tolkien probably neglected to add the vowel diacritics in this case.

Cognates

• S. Tinúviel “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight” ✧ PE19/073; SA/tin

Derivations

• ✶Tindōmiselde “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight” ✧ PE19/073

Elements

Word	Gloss
tindómë	“(starry) twilight, (usually) time near dawn, (starry) twilight, time near dawn, [ᴹQ.] starlit dusk”
seldë	“daughter, daughter; [ᴹQ.] child [f.], *girl”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶tindōmi-sel(dĕ) > tindómizel > tindómerel	[tindōmiselde] > [tindōmiseld] > [tindōmizeld] > [tindōmizel] > [tindōmirel] > [tindōmerel]	✧ PE19/073

Variations

• tindómerel ✧ PE19/073; SA/tin
• Tindómrl ✧ VT47/37

undómë

twilight

undómë noun "twilight", usually of the time near evening, not near dawn (that is tindómë)

yualë

twilight

yualë noun "twilight" (KAL). Also yúcalë. Cf. yúyal.

yúcalë

twilight

yúcalë ("k")noun "twilight" (KAL, VT45:13). Also yualë.

yúyal

twilight

yúyal noun "twilight" (PE17:169); cf. yualë, yúcalë, q.v.

yúyal

noun. twilight

Cognates

• S. uial “twilight, evendim” ✧ PE17/153; PE17/169

Derivations

• ✶yuyuñal “twilight” ✧ PE17/169

Elements

Word	Gloss
yu-	“both, both, [ᴱQ.] twice”
GAL	“light; shine, be bright”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶yuy(u)ŋal > yúyal	[jujŋal] > [jujɣal] > [jujal] > [jūjal]	✧ PE17/169

Variations

• úyale ✧ PE17/153

úyalë

noun. twilight

uial

noun. twilight

uial

noun. twilight

_ n. _twilight. Q. úyale, yúyal.

tinnu

twilight

(i** dinnu, o thinnu) (dusk, starlit evening, early night without a moon, starry twilight), pl. tinny (i** thynny) if there is a pl.

tinnu

starry twilight

tinnu (i dinnu, o thinnu) (dusk, twilight, starlit evening, early night without a moon), pl. tinny (i thynny) if there is a pl.

minuial

twilight

(i vinuial) (dawn, morrowdim), pl. minuiail (i minuiail).

muil

twilight

(i vuil) (dreariness, shadow, vagueness), no distinct pl. except with article (i muil)

uial

twilight

1) uial (pl. uiail if there is a pl.). This can be specified as: 1) (morning twilight) minuial (i vinuial) (dawn, morrowdim), pl. minuiail (i minuiail). 2) (second twilight, before nightfall) aduial (evendim, the time of evening when the stars come out), pl. aduiail. Other terms for twilight: 1) tinnu (i dinnu, o thinnu) (dusk, starlit evening, early night without a moon, starry twilight), pl. tinny (i thynny) if there is a pl. 2) muil (i vuil) (dreariness, shadow, vagueness), no distinct pl. except with article (i muil)

yuyuñal

noun. twilight

Derivatives

• Q. yúyal “twilight” ✧ PE17/169
• S. uial “twilight, evendim” ✧ PE17/169

Elements

Word	Gloss
YU	“both, both, [ᴹ√] two”
Ñ(G)AL	“gleam, sheen, shine (by reflection)”

Variations

• yuy(u)ŋal ✧ PE17/169

uial

noun. twilight

uial

noun. twilight

Cognates

• ᴹQ. yúkale “twilight” ✧ Ety/KAL

Derivations

• ᴹ√YŪ “two, both” ✧ Ety/KAL
• ᴹ√KAL “shine” ✧ Ety/KAL

Element in

• N. Oelinuial “Pools of Twilight”
• N. Nenuial “Evendimmer”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√YŪ > uial	[juigal] > [uigal] > [uiɣal] > [uial]	✧ Ety/KAL
ᴹ√KAL > uigâl	[juikal] > [uikal] > [uigal] > [uigāl]	✧ Ety/KAL

Variations

• uigâl ✧ EtyAC/KAL (uigâl)