marilla

pearl

marilla noun "pearl" (LT1:265)

ëarsil

noun. pearl, (lit.) sea-sheen

A neologism for a “pearl” coined by Paul Strack on 2022-04-10 on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) as a combination of ëar “sea” and √SIL “shine”, so literally “sea-sheen”. It replaced an earlier neologism ëassar by Elaran where the second element was sar “(small) stone”, because “sea-stone” is a bit too prosaic.

Elements

Word	Gloss
ëar	“sea, great sea, sea, great sea, [ᴹQ.] open sea; water”
SIL	“shine (white or silver)”

ëassar

noun. pearl, (lit.) sea-pebble/stone

Cognates

• ᴺS. gaessarn “pearl, (lit.) sea-pebble”

Elements

Word	Gloss
ëar	“sea, great sea, sea, great sea, [ᴹQ.] open sea; water”
sar	“stone (small)”

gaessarn

noun. pearl, (lit.) sea-pebble

A neologism for “pearl” coined by Elaran on 2021-09-21 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), a combination of gaear “sea” and sarn “pebble”, with rs becoming ss as usual. A possible alternate form is aessarn, depending on whether you think the Sindarin word for “sea” is gae(a)r or ae(a)r.

Cognates

• ᴺQ. ëassar “pearl, (lit.) sea-pebble/stone”

Elements

Word	Gloss
gaear	“sea”
sarn	“(small) stone, pebble; stony (place), (small) stone, pebble; stony (place); [N.] stone as a material”