Eldamo : Gnomish : ilon

G. ilon n. “sky” (Category: Sky, Heavens)

⚠️G. ilon, n. “sky” (Category: Sky, Heavens): N. #ell “sky”

A word for “sky” in an early name list from the 1910s and appearing in a couple early names: G. Thlim Quing Ilon “*Folk of the Heavenly Arc” and G. Cris o Teld Quing Ilon “Gully of the Rainbow Roof” (PE13/101, 104), the latter revised to G. Cris Ilbranteloth (LT2/202). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, however, G. Ilon was the name of Ilúvatar (GL/50).

References ✧ LT2A/Teld Quing Ilon; PE13/104; PE15/27

Glosses

“sky” ✧ LT2A/Teld Quing Ilon; PE13/104; PE15/27 (Ilon)

Element In

G. Cris a Teld Quing Ilon “Gully of the Rainbow Roof” ✧ LT2A/Teld Quing Ilon
G. Ilon “Ilúvatar, God” ✧ LT2A/Teld Quing Ilon
G. Thlim Quing Ilon “*Folk of the Heavenly Arc” ✧ PE13/104

Derivations

< ᴱ√ILU “ether, the slender airs among the stars”