sinyë (þ) noun "evening" (THIN)
Quenya
tindómë
starry twilight, starlit dusk
sinyë
evening
vinyë
evening
[vinyë noun "evening" (VT46:21)]
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
histë
dusk
histë noun "dusk" (LT1:255)
hísë
dusk
hísë (2) noun "dusk" (LT1:255). A "Qenya" form possibly obsoleted by #1 above.
usque
noun. dusk
dusk
usque
noun. dusk, twilight
lómë
dusk, twilight
lómë noun "dusk, twilight", also "night"; according to SD:415, the stem is lómi- (contrast the "Qenya" genitive lómen rather than **lómin in VT45:28). According to PE17:152, lómë refers to night "when viewed favourably, as a rule, but it became the general rule" (cf. SD:414-415 regarding lōmi as an Adûnaic loan-word based on lómë, meaning "fair night, a night of stars" with "no connotations of gloom or fear"). In the battle-cry auta i lómë "the night is passing" (Silm. ch. 20), the "night" would however seem to refer metaphorically to the reign of Morgoth. As for the gloss, cf. Lómion masc. name "Child of Twilight [dusk]", the Quenya name Aredhel secretly gave to Maeglin _(SA). Otherwise lómë is usually defined as "night" (Letters:308, LR:41, SD:302 cf.414-15, SA:dú)_; the _Etymologies defines lómë as "Night [as phenomenon], night-time, shades of night, Dark" (DO3/DŌ, LUM, DOMO, VT45:28), or "night-light" (VT45:28, reading of _lómë uncertain). In early "Qenya" the gloss was "dusk, gloom, darkness" (LT1:255). Cf. lómelindëpl. lómelindi "nightingale" _(SA:dú, LR:41; SD:302, MR:172, DO3/DŌ, LIN2, TIN). _Derived adjective #lómëa "gloomy" in Lómëanor "Gloomyland"; see Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna...
tindómë noun "starry twilight, starlit dusk" (DOMO, TIN, SA:tin), usually of the time near dawn, not near evening (SA:tin)