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N. gilith n. “starlight, *region of the stars” (Category: Starlight)

N. gilith, n. “starlight, *region of the stars” (Category: Starlight)

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “starlight” under the root ᴹ√GIL “shine (white or pale)” with variant forms Gilith and {?Gilwen >>} Gilfen (Ety/GIL; EtyAC/GIL). Elsewhere in The Etymologies, Tolkien compared gilith to N. gwilith “air as a region” and equated it to ᴹQ. Ilmen (Ety/WIL), so it seems Tolkien also intended it to mean “region of the stars”, though Gilfen is more likely as the direct cognate of ᴹQ. Ilmen.

References ✧ Ety/GIL, WIL; EtyAC/GIL

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geil “star” ✧ Ety/GIL (gíl)
#-th “abstract noun”
ᴹ√GIL “shine (white or pale)” ✧ Ety/WIL

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G. gilm n. “moonlight, silver light” (Category: Moon)

A word for “moonlight, silver light” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√Gil- (GL/48).

References ✧ GL/38; LT1A/Ingil

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ᴱ√Gil- > gilm [gilm] ✧ GL/38