S. nim adj. “white” (Category: White)

S. nim, adj. “white” (Category: White)

References ✧ PE17/19, 168; SA/nim

Glosses

• “white” ✧ PE17/19; PE17/168; SA/nim

Related

• nim “white” is evidently influenced by √(N)DIP/B “bending and drooping” ✧ PE17/168
• Q. ninque “white, chill, cold, pallid” [similar sense, different derivation] nim “white” ✧ PE17/168

Element In

• S. Barad Nimras “White Horn Tower” ✧ SA/nim
• S. Nimbrethil “Silver-birches” ✧ PE17/19; PE17/19; SA/nim
• S. Nimloth “White Blossom, Pale Blossom” ✧ SA/nim
• S. Nimras “White Horn” ✧ PE17/168
• S. Nimrodel “Lady of the White Cave”
• S. Ered Nimrais “White Mountains, (lit.) White-horns Mountains” ✧ SA/nim

Cognates

• Q. ninquë “white; chill, cold; pallid” ✧ SA/nim

Derivations

• < ✶ninkwi “white, pale” ✧ PE17/168 (nimpĭ)
  • < nimbĭ < nimpĭ, early Sindarin alteration due to apparent phonetic unsuitability ✧ PE17/168
  • < √NIK(W) “(also of) snow, ice” ✧ PE17/168 (NIK)
• < S. nimp “pale, pallid, white” ✧ SA/nim (†nimf)
  • < nimp < nimf ✧ SA/nim
  • < √NIK(W) “(also of) snow, ice” ✧ PE17/168 (NIK)
  • < ✶nimpĭ “small” ✧ VT48/18
    • < √NIP “small (usually with connotation of weakness)” ✧ VT48/18
• < AT. nimbi “white” ✧ PE17/19
  • < ✶ninkwi “white, pale”
    • < √NIK(W) “(also of) snow, ice” ✧ PE17/168 (NIK)

Phonetic Developments

AT. nimbi > nim

[nimbi] > [nimbe] > [nimb] > [nimm] > [nimm] > [nim]

✧ PE17/19