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| '''''ithil''''' is [[Sindarin]] for [[Isil]], the [[Moon]]. It appears in placenames, especially [[Minas Ithil]] "the [[Moontower]]", and [[Ithilien]], the land in which it stood.
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| ==Etymology==
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| Root ''[[SIL]]/[[THIL]]'', "to shine white", intensified by a prefix.<ref name="Etym">[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Christopher Tolkien]] (ed.), ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]'', "[[The Etymologies]]", especially entries I-, SIL and THIL</ref>
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| ==Cognates==
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| *[[Quenya]] ''[[Isil]]''
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| *[[Doriathrin]] ''[[Istil]]''
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