Ad. nîlu n. (strong-II neut) “moon” (Category: Moon)
A noun translated as “moon” and fully declined as an example of a Strong II noun (SD/431). It appears with both a short and long final -u, but Tolkien indicated that the form with long û is actually the personified form Nîlû “Man in the Moon” (SD/426), perhaps the Adûnaic name of Tilion. Tolkien also listed the “later forms Nil, Njūl” (SD/306), one of which may be the Westron word for “moon”, most likely Wes. nil. Andreas Moehn suggested (EotAL/NUL) that this noun may be related to nûlo/nûlu/nâlu, but given the evil connotations of these words (SD/306) and the different stem vowels, this seems unlikely to me.
References ✧ SD/241, 306, 426, 428, 431; SDI2/Nîlû
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| nīl(uw)at | dual | ✧ SD/428 | |
| †nīlat | dual; archaic-strong-dual | ✧ SD/431 | |
| nīluwat | dual | ✧ SD/431 | |
| nīluwāt | dual subjective | ✧ SD/431 | |
| †nīlāt | dual subjective; archaic-strong-dual | ✧ SD/431 | |
| nīlu | objective | ✧ SD/431 | |
| nīlī | plural | ✧ SD/431 | |
| nīlīya | plural subjective | ✧ SD/431 | |
| nīlō | subjective | “moon” | ✧ SD/426; SD/428 |
| nīlō | subjective | ✧ SD/431 |
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