Eldamo : Sindarin : till

S. till n. “point, spike, (sharp) horn, tine, ending” (Category: Point)

S. till, n. “point, spike, (sharp) horn, tine, ending” (Category: Point): G. eg¹ “point”

A word meaning “tine, spike, point” (PE17/36) or “spike, sharp horn” (RC/775) as an element in names like S. Celebdil “Silvertine”. In a discussion of the word niphredil, Tolkien said til or -il meant “point, ending” (PE17/55).

Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. till “horn” as the cognate of ᴹQ. tilde “point, horn” under the root ᴹ√TIL “point, horn” (Ety/TIL).

References ✧ PE17/36, 55; RC/775; TI/174

Glosses

“tine, spike, point” ✧ PE17/36; TI/174

Variations

till ✧ PE17/36; TI/174

Inflections

dil	soft-mutation; t-mutation	“spike, sharp horn”	✧ RC/775
-il	suffix		✧ PE17/55
til	suffix	“point, ending”	✧ PE17/55

Element In

ᴺS. !canthil “square”
S. Celebdil “Silvertine” ✧ PE17/36; RC/775 (Celeb-dil); TI/174
S. Egladil “Elven-point”
S. niphredil “white flower (similar to a snowdrop); *(lit.) pale point” ✧ PE17/55
S. Ras Morthil “Andrast”

Derivations

< √TIL “point, horn”

N. till n. “horn” (Category: Horn (animal))

Reference ✧ Ety/TIL ✧ “horn”

Element In

N. Calendil “Green-tine”
N. Celebdil “Silvertine”
N. nelthil “triangle” ✧ Ety/TIL
N. nifredil “(green) snowdrop; *(lit.) pale point”
N. Nimdil “White Horn”
N. Tor-dilluin
N. Tilion “Horned” ✧ Ety/TIL

Cognates

ᴹQ. tilde “spike, horn” ✧ Ety/TIL

Derivations

< ᴹ√TIL “point, horn” ✧ Ety/TIL
- < tild < TIL ✧ Ety/TIL

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√TIL > tild > till

[tilde] > [tilðe] > [tilð] > [till]

✧ Ety/TIL