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?

 

[ZehnWaters]

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about which the site explains: "These exist to inform you that the gloss originate from a source which might be outdated or questionable."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

Hm....Maidh+coll. Maidhcoll. Maigol?

Originally it was going to be "yellow blossom" but I changed which Istar was a woman*, so "fallow mantle" makes more sense for the Yellow(ish) Istar.

*Seregarn is now the female. Thought she's not actually an Istari, she's Míirel who asked to go to Middle-Earth to be with her sole surviving descendant, Celebrimbor. She carries a similar charge, however: to weave the dooms of those in Middle-Earth, as warnings.

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

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

So do I - yet you seem far more knowledgeable on it than I.

 

[ZehnWaters]

Hm....Maidh+coll. Maidhcoll. Maigol?

Building on this, I suppose he does interact more with Silvan elves than Sindar, but I was trying to give the new 3 Istari Sindarin names as I prefer Sindarin to Quenya.

 

[Elthir]

So do I - yet you seem far more knowledgeable on it than I.

Ah, I bet I'm not more knowledgeable than you. A good magician might seem to pull a rabbit out of any empty hat.



Abracadabra . . . nasal mutation!

 

[ZehnWaters]

Hm....Maidh+coll. Maidhcoll. Maigol?

Originally it was going to be "yellow blossom" but I changed which Istar was a woman*, so "fallow mantle" makes more sense for the Yellow(ish) Istar.

*Seregarn is now the female. Thought she's not actually an Istari, she's Míirel who asked to go to Middle-Earth to be with her sole surviving descendant, Celebrimbor. She carries a similar charge, however: to weave the dooms of those in Middle-Earth, as warnings.

@Gilruin Thoughts? Yellow-mantle? Or Fallow-mantle? In Sindarin. Malengol? Maidhgol?

 

[Gilruin]

√MAL- + coll → Malchol wold be the clearest option, I think, cp. Malduin ‘Yellow river’. With the example of Golodhbaeth ‘Ñoldo-speech’, I’d assume that maidh + coll → Meidhgol would be phonetically sound as well, but that is quite a mouth full.

 

[Elthir]

Just noticed on the re-read that one of my posts is marked as a "solution" for some reason (?)

Anywho, I'm here to say that I disagree that it is (a solution)!