Saturday, October 15, 2011

Black, in my words (revised)

nibel : black

The Illunse word for the color black is nibel. Nibel is a unusual last name. Nibel is unusual masculine name, variant of Nibal. In Romansch (Sursilvan) nibel means cloud.

This word is a mixture of the Latin word for black (black, dark-colored, blackening) which is niger, and the Old English word for black (black, dark; ink) which is blæc (blaec), which is close to the Modern English word black.

My previous Illunse word for black was nabel.

Here's a link to Black, in Tolkien's words.

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