Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : GWINI

ᴱ√GWINI root. “sparkle”

⚠️ᴱ√GWINI root. “sparkle”: √TIN “sparkle, spark, [ᴱ√] twinkle, [ᴹ√] emit slender (silver pale) beams”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variant forms ᴱ√GWIMI and ᴱ√GWINI and glossed “sparkle” (QL/104). They had derivatives in both Qenya and Gnomish such as ᴱQ. wimpele “a twinkling”, ᴱQ. wintil “a glint”, G. gwim “a spark, wink”, and G. gwinc “a spark, flash” (QL/104, GL/45). There are no signs of these roots in Tolkien’s later writing.

References ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon; QL/104

Glosses

“sparkle” ✧ QL/104 (GWIMI); QL/104

Variations

GWINI ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon; QL/104; QL/104
GWIMI ✧ QL/104; QL/104
WINI ✧ QL/104; QL/104
WIMI ✧ QL/104

GWIMI “sparkle” & GWINI ✧ QL/104
GWINI “sparkle” = GWIMI ✧ QL/104

Changes

WINI >> GWINI ✧ QL/104; QL/104
WIMI >> GWIMI “sparkle” ✧ QL/104

Derivatives

⇒ ᴱQ. Morwinyon “Glint at Dusk, Glint in the Dark; Arcturus” ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon
> ᴱQ. wimpele “a twinkling” ✧ QL/104
> ᴱQ. wintele “*twinkling” ✧ QL/104
> ᴱQ. wintil “a glint” ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon; QL/104
> ᴱQ. winwe “a sparkling, flash” ✧ QL/104
- ⇒ ᴱQ. winwinoite “glittering” ✧ QL/104
> ᴱQ. winya- “to flash, glint” ✧ QL/104
> G. gwim “spark, wink” ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon
- ⇒ G. gwimla- “to wink, twinkle” ✧ GL/45; LT1A/Morwinyon
- ⇒ G. gwimpel “sparkling (n.), scintillation” ✧ GL/45
> G. gwinc “spark, flash” ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon
⇒ G. Morwinthi “Arcturus” ✧ LT1A/Morwinyon