Eldamo : Sindarin : uimallen

S. ^uimallen adj. “ever-golden” (Category: Tree (other))

S. ^uimallen, adj. “ever-golden” (Category: Tree (other))

Another name of the mallorn tree in notes on the Common Eldarin Article (CEA) from 1969, appearing as uimallhen “ever-golden” < ✶oio-maltinā (PE23/140). This word is unusual in that the medial m does not mutate to v, but in CEA Tolkien was exploring the idea that m did not always mutate in later Sindarin compounts (PE23/138 note #12). In normal Sindarin orthography the voiceless llh would be represented as ll: *uimallen. Compare malhorn from CEA (PE23/140) vs. mallorn from The Lord of the Rings (LotR/346).

Reference ✧ PE23/140 ✧ uimallhen “ever-golden”

Elements

ui	“ever”
mallen	“golden”

Derivations

< ✶oio-maltinā “ever-golden” ✧ PE23/140

Phonetic Developments

✶oio-maltinā > uimallhen

[oiomaltinā] > [oiomaltina] > [oiomaltʰina] > [oiomalθina] > [uiomalθina] > [uiomalθena] > [uiomalθen] > [uimalθen] > [uimallen]

✧ PE23/140