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| The oldest recorded name of the [[Moon]] was its [[Valarin]] name, '''Phanaikelūth'''. This was said to mean "bright mirror";<ref name="QaE">{{HM|WJ}}, "[[Quendi and Eldar]]", page 401</ref> making it the only name to accurately describe the origin of moonlight.
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| Tolkien used the letter ''þ'' (thorn) in Valarin to represent the dental sound [θ] written as ''th'' in [[Vanyarin]] and [[Sindarin]] (and English).
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| Since the word is spelled ''Phanaikelūth'' and not **''Phanaikelūþ'', it only means, that the final part of the name should not be pronounced as in ''[[Lúthien|'''Lúth'''ien]]'' ([luːθjen]), but rather as an aspirated ''t''.
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| [[fr:encyclo/geographie/astronomie/phanaikeluth]]
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