Qenya
tingilya
noun. twinkling star
Elements
Word Gloss TIN “sparkle, emit slender (silver pale) beams” gilya “star” Variations
- tingilinde ✧ Ety/TIN; EtyAC/GIL
- ting-ilya ✧ EtyAC/GIL
tingilinde
noun. twinkling star
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A noun glossed “a twinkling star” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with variants tingilya and tingilinde, combining elements of the roots ᴹ√TIN and ᴹ√GIL, themselves both the basis for other star words (Ety/GIL, TIN; EtyAC/GIL).