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N. cuil n. “life” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

N. cuil, n. “life, [G.] lifetime” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

A noun for “life” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: This word dates back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where Tolkien clarified that G. cuil “life” was “usually [the] quality of being alive, but [was] also used = lifetime” (GL/27). ᴱN. cuil “life” also appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141).

Reference ✧ Ety/KUY ✧ “life”

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ᴹ√KUY > cuil [kujle] > [kuile] > [kuil] ✧ Ety/KUY

ᴱN. cuil n. “life” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

See N. cuil for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/141, 155-156

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#chuil nasal-mutation; c-mutation “life” ✧ PE13/155
#guil soft-mutation; c-mutation “life” ✧ PE13/156

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G. cuil n. “life, lifetime” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

See N. cuil for discussion.

References ✧ GL/27; LT1A/Koivië-néni

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ᴱ√KOYO > cuil [koile] > [koil] > [kuil] ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni