What is "Yellow" in Sindarin?

[ZehnWaters]

All I can find is Gold or the primitive, base-stem of Yellow, or the Quenya version. Does anyone know what "Yellow" is in Sindarin?

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Malen

I think that's the one.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Malen

I think that's the one.

I looks like that's it's Quenya form.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Maidh

 

[ZehnWaters]

Maidh

Also Noldorin.

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

I looks like that's it's Quenya form.

Malina is Quenya...nay?

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Malina or Malen would be a Quenya translation.

The closest thing I can find aside from Maidh, which is a Noldorin or occasionally Sindarin form, is Malt.

Malt actually means 'gold' rather than 'yellow' yet it is the closest translation written.

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Malina or Malen would be a Quenya translation.

The closest thing I can find aside from Maidh, which is a Noldorin or occasionally Sindarin form, is Malt.

Malt actually means 'gold' rather than 'yellow' yet it is the closest translation written.

Again, you have proved you more about the Elven languages than I... 😂

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Ah! Avaro naeth!

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Ah! Avaro naeth!

I must say that I prefer Quenya over Sindarin. It seems more elegant in its writing and pronunciation.

(By the Grace of the High Elves...mayhap I still hold the Light of Valinóre within my féa, even though 'tis the Seventh Age? )

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

I am totally with you on that. It is a more archaic and I think more ornate language. My favorite form of Elvish is most likely Quenya, or Vanyarin, mayhaps even Telerin. Yet I think my favorite form of all the languages must be Valarin.

(Doubtful but possible.... Also, where is Vilisse, if now Ilmare speaks?)

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

I am totally with you on that. It is a more archaic and I think more ornate language. My favorite form of Elvish is most likely Quenya, or Vanyarin, mayhaps even Telerin. Yet I think my favorite form of all the languages must be Valarin.

(Doubtful but possible.... Also, where is Vilisse, if now Ilmare speaks?)

Valarin? Fitting for you as a Valar - however, to me, I find it too complicated. I far prefer Quenya.

(And are you referring to the Divergence RP?)

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Ubōz.
Valarin has ever been my most favored, yet Quenya I speak most.

(Yes, I am.)

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Nice to see we have similarities amongst differences...

 

[Elthir]

I prefer Sindarin.

Noldorin Maidhros meant "Pale Glitter" back in Etymologies, with MAD- yielding [for example] Noldorin maidh "pale, fallow, fawn" [before the change to Maedros "Shapely
+ red-haired [reddish-brown]", based on his Quenya names].

This Noldorin form appears to be acceptable in Sindarin to those better informed than me or I -- that is, at least it appears on Parf Edhellen in the Sindarin section.

So you've got some "yellow" in there! Assuming Elves named their colours like this . . .

fallow: of a light yellowish-brown colour
fawn: a grayish yellow-brown to moderate reddish brown.

Plus, if you choose this word, you could write it like maið which looks cool.

Although that said, even if any of this post is correct, I'd pick a different colour . . .
like a light yellowish-brown colour, for example.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

I might also mention for a golden or yellow hue, this color may be defined:

Laurea

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

That is Quenya, nay?

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Yes it is indeed.

 

[ZehnWaters]

I must say that I prefer Quenya over Sindarin. It seems more elegant in its writing and pronunciation.

It's more complicated and long. Too many accented letters.

I prefer Sindarin.

And I.

This Noldorin form appears to be acceptable in Sindarin to those better informed than me or I -- that is, at least it appears on Parf Edhellen in the Sindarin section.

Maidh is acceptable in Sindarin?

fallow: of a light yellowish-brown colour
fawn: a grayish yellow-brown to moderate reddish brown.

Although that said, even if any of this post is correct, I'd pick a different colour . . .
like a light yellowish-brown colour, for example.

That...actually works now that I've done some revisions to the character.

 

[Elthir]

Maidh is acceptable in Sindarin?

All I can say is that Parf Edhellen still includes it under their Sindarin section, albeit (just noticed) with an asterisk, about which the site explains: "These exist to inform you that the gloss originate from a source which might be outdated or questionable."

The source for maidh [Tolkienian at least] would seem to be Etymologies. And generally speaking, in the sphere of Neo-elvish word-making, there have been Noldorin words that have been [again generally] accepted into Sindarin, as long as the phonology fits, and nothing published later appears to create a problematic scenario . . .

. . . so here I'm assuming [!] that if anything new makes this problematic, that someone at PE would have taken it out "by now", or at least warned the reader beyond the general "asterisk warning."

Unless I missed something, there's no MAD- or maidh in Words, Phrases and Passages [post Lord of the Rings], but again, maybe there's some other source that provides some argument that this word simply cannot exist in the updated linguistic scenario.

I only [happily] dabble in the Elvish tongues and nomenclature.

No expert me