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Gnomish

bar

noun. home, dwelling

Cognates

  • Eq. mar “house, home, dwelling (of men); -land, the Earth” ✧ PE15/21; LT1A/Eldamar

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MBARA “dwell, live” ✧ LT1A/Eldamar

Element in

  • G. -bar “dweller; home, -ham” ✧ GL/21; LT1A/Eldamar
  • G. barod “homewards, home” ✧ GL/21
  • G. baron “from home, out, away, abroad” ✧ GL/21
  • G. baros “hamlet” ✧ GG/08; GL/21; LT1A/Eldamar
  • G. barwen “homestead” ✧ GG/08; GL/21

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√mbar > bar[mbar] > [bar]✧ LT1A/Eldamar

Variations

  • Bar ✧ PE15/21
Gnomish [GG/08; GL/21; LT1A/Eldamar; PE15/21] Group: Eldamo. Published by

baur

noun. house

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶mbāră ✧ PE13/116; PE13/116

Variations

  • bawr ✧ PE13/116

bridhil

feminine name. *Queen

Changes

  • BridhilBredhil ✧ SMI/Bridhil

Cognates

  • Eq. Varda ✧ GL/18; GL/24; LT1A/Tinwetári; LT1A/Varda; PE14/014

Derivations

Element in

  • G. Timbridhil “Queen of Stars” ✧ GL/24; GL/71; LT1A/Tinwetári
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/24; GL/56; GL/71; LT1A/Tinwetári; LT1A/Varda; PE14/014; SMI/Bridhil] Group: Eldamo. Published by

man

masculine name. Man

Changes

  • ManwMan ✧ PE13/104

Cognates

  • Eq. Manwe ✧ GL/18; LT1A/Manwë; PE13/104

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MANA “*good (moral)”

Element in

Variations

  • Manw ✧ PE13/104 (Manw)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/20; GL/43; GL/56; GL/68; LT1A/Manwë; PE13/104; PE15/26] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hermon

noun. lord

Cognates

malc

noun. lord

Cognates

  • Eq. malko “lord, sir”

Derivations

Element in

  • G. malcos “lordship, power, a province or principality” ✧ GL/56
  • G. malcrin “lordly, noble, mighty” ✧ GL/56

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶malkŭ- > malc[malku] > [malk]✧ GL/56

Variations

  • malc ✧ GL/56

redhos

noun. land

túrin

masculine name. Lord

Gnomish [LT2I/Túrin; PE15/61] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-vran

suffix. dwelling

A suffixal form of G. brann (GL/24); see S. barthan for discussion.

Cognates

Variations

  • -vron ✧ GL/24

-vron

suffix. dwelling

gwast

noun. dwelling

A noun for “dwelling” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√[[ep|ŋwa[ð]-]] (GL/47).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ŊWAÐA “tarry, linger” ✧ GL/47

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√ŋwa- > gwast[ŋʷaðt] > [ŋgʷaðt] > [gʷaðt] > [gʷaðt]✧ GL/47

turinthir

noun. *queen