Quettaparma Quenyallo

cildo ("k") vb. "one saw" (MC:220; this is "Qenya"; cf. cildë, ciluva)

cilin noun “glass” (“often used as in English (“often used as in English for any thing or implement made of glass”) (PE17:37). Compare calca, hyellë.

cilintilla or cilintír noun “looking-glass” (i.e. mirror?) (PE17:37)

cilinyul noun “drinking-vessel” (made of glass) (PE17:37)

#cilmë noun "choosing" (isolated from Essecilmë "name-choosing", q.v.) (MR:214); also in #cilmessë pl. cilmessi ("k") "self-names", literally names of personal choice (PM:339) (cilmë + essi, hence *"choice-names").

ciluva ("k") vb. "shall see" (MC:213, 214; this is "Qenya")

cilya noun "chasm", allative cilyanna ("k") "in-Chasm" (sc. "into [the] chasm") (LR:47, 56). In MR:471, cilya is defined as "cleft, gorge". Spelt kilya in Etym, there defined as "cleft, pass between hills, gorge" (KIL)

cim- vb. "heed" (GL:39)

cinta adj. “small” (PE17:157)

#cir-, see círa

círa ("k") vb. "sail" (apparently the continuative stem of #cir-) (Markirya)

circa ("k") noun "sickle" (KIRIK)

círier ("k") pa.t. vb. "clove" (MC:216; this is "Qenya")

cirinci ("k"), sg. *cirincë, noun: a species of birds, "no bigger than wrens, but all scarlet, with piping voices on the edge of human hearing" (UT:169). The word seems to incorporate the diminutive ending -incë.

ciris ("k") noun "cleft, crack" (LT2:337 - obsoleted by cirissë?)

cirissë ("k") noun "slash, gash" (KIRIS; the glosses "cleft" and maybe ?"crevasse" occurred in deleted material, VT45:23)

*cirtë see certa

cirya ("k") noun "ship" (MC:213, 214, 220, 221), "(sharp-prowed) ship" (SA:kir-, where the word is misspelt círya with a long í; Christopher Tolkien probably confused it with the first element of the Sindarin name Círdan. It seems that Círyon, the name of Isildur's son, is likewise misspelt; read Ciryon as in the index and the main text of the Silmarillion. Cf. also kirya in Etym, stem KIR.) Also in Markirya. In the Plotz letter, cirya is inflected for all cases except plural possessive (*ciryaiva). The curious dual form ciriat occurs in Letters:427, whereas Plotz gives the expected form ciryat. Locative ciryasse "upon a ship" (MC:216). Compounded in ciryaquen "shipman, sailor" (WJ:372), also ciryando (PE17:58), cf. also ciryamo “mariner” (UT:8). Masc. names Ciryaher *"Ship-lord" (Appendix A), Ciryandil *"Ship-friend" (Appendix A), Ciryatan *"Ship-builder" (Appendix A), also Tar-Ciryatan, name of a Númenórean king, "King Shipbuilder" (SA:kir-)

ciryamo noun "mariner", nominative and genitive are identical since the noun already ends in -o, cf. Indis i-Ciryamo "the Mariner's Wife" (UT:8)

ciryando (“k”) noun “sailor” (PE17:58).