S. #tinnu n. “*twilight” (Category: Dusk)
A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “starry twilight” or “dusk, twilight, early night (without moon)” derived from a combination of ᴹ√TIN “sparkle” and ᴹ✶dōmi “night” (Ety/DOMO, TIN). Its ongoing validity is implied by the unmodified Sindarin name Tinnúviel < ✶tindōmi-sel(dĕ) “nightingale” in notes from the 1950s (PE19/73). Presumably in the ordinary form of the name Tinúviel, the double nn shortened due to the long ú surviving in the compound.
Reference ✧ PE19/73 ✧ #Tinnú
Elements
| √TIN | “sparkle, spark” |
| dû | “night, dimness; dim, dark” |
Element In
Cognates
N. tinnu n. “(starry) twilight, dusk, early night (without moon)” (Category: Dusk)
References ✧ Ety/DOMO, THIN, TIN
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| Dinnu | soft-mutation; t-mutation | “Twilight” | ✧ Ety/THIN |
Elements
| ᴹ√TIN | “sparkle, emit slender (silver pale) beams” | ✧ Ety/DOMO |
| ᴹ✶dōmi | “night, twilight, gloom” | ✧ Ety/DOMO |
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√DOM > tindumh > tindu > tinnu | [tindōmi] > [tindōme] > [tindūme] > [tindūm] > [tindum] > [tinduv] > [tindu] > [tinnu] | ✧ Ety/TIN |