S. dúlin n. “nightingale” (Category: Bird (other))
A word for “nightingale” appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a combination of N. dû “night” and N. lhinn “tune” (Ety/DOƷ, Ety/LIN², TIN). It appeared as both dúlinn (Ety/LIN²) and dúlin (Ety/TIN). In The Notion Club Papers of the 1940s, Tolkien instead gave duilin “nightingale” as a derivative of primitive ᴹ✶dōmilindē, demonstrating a phonetic development whereby the ancient m became v and then vanished after the u, but the medial i was preserved. However, Christopher Tolkien used the form dúlin in The Silmarillion appendix (SA/dú), and that form is thus better known.
Reference ✧ SA/dú ✧ “nightingale”
Elements
| dû | “night, dimness; dim, dark” | ✧ SA/dú (dú) |
| lind¹ | “song, chant, singing; singer” |
Cognates
N. dúlin(n) n. “nightingale” (Category: Bird (other))
References ✧ Ety/DOƷ, LIN², TIN; EtyAC/LIN²; SD/302
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Elements
| dû | “night, night-fall, late evening” | ✧ Ety/DOƷ; SD/302 (dū) | |
| lhinn | “air, tune” | soft-mutation | ✧ Ety/LIN² (linn); Ety/TIN (#lin) |
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√DOƷ/DÔ > dúlind > dúlin(n) | [dōlindē] > [dūlindē] > [dūlinde] > [dūlind] > [dūlinn] > [dūlin] | ✧ Ety/DOƷ |
| ᴹ√DOM > dúlind > dúlin | [dūvlinde] > [dūvlind] > [dūlind] > [dūlinn] > [dūlin] | ✧ Ety/TIN |
| ᴹ✶dōmilindē > duilin | [dōmilindē] > [dūmilindē] > [dūmilinde] > [dūmilind] > [dūvilind] > [duilind] > [duilinn] > [duilin] | ✧ SD/302 |