Q. cirya² n. “cleft, pass” (Category: Ravine, Pass)
A noun for a “cleft”, most notably in Calacirya “Light-cleft” as mentioned in the Namárië poem (RGEO/62; LotR/377).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name was ᴹQ. Kalakilya (LR/173; MR/102), and the word ᴹQ. kilya “cleft, pass between hills, gorge” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√KIL “divide” (Ety/KIL). The word kilya also appeared with the gloss “chasm” in Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s (LR/47, 56; SD/247, 310), but at some point when composing the final versions of the Namárië poem Tolkien switched to Calacirya, and he made the same change in later versions of Silmarillion drafts (MR/102).
Neo-Quenya: I’d avoid this word for Neo-Quenya, as it is too easily confused with cirya “ship”.
Reference ✧ RGEO/62 ✧ cirya “cleft”
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ᴹQ. kilya n. “cleft, pass between hills, gorge; chasm” (Category: Ravine, Pass)
References ✧ Ety/KIL; LR/47, 56; MR/471; SD/247, 310
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| kilyanna | allative | “in-Chasm” | ✧ LR/47; SD/310 |
| kilyanna | allative | “into-Chasm” | ✧ LR/56 |
| ikilyanna | definite allative | “into chasm” | ✧ SD/247 |
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| ᴹ√KIL > kilya | [kilya] | ✧ Ety/KIL |