lairemírë

noun. daisy, (lit.) meadow-jewel *(or summer-jewel)

A neologism for “daisy” coined by Tamas Ferencz, a combination of [ᴱQ.] laire “meadow” and Q. mírë “jewel”. In Tolkien’s later writing, lairë became “summer”, but I think this neologism still works as “✱summer-jewel”.

Elements

Word	Gloss
laire	“meadow”
mírë	“jewel, gem, precious thing, treasure; precious”

eirien

feminine name. Daisy

A Sindarin translation of the name of Sam’s daughter “Daisy”, presumably of the same meaning, appearing in Tolkien’s unpublished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings and in the King’s Letter (SD/126, 129). Presumably it is eirien “daisy” used as a name.

Conceptual Development: In earlier versions of the epilogue the name appeared as N. Arien or Erien (SD/117, 121).

Element in

• S. ar Meril bess dîn, ar Elanor, Meril, Glorfinniel, ar Eirien sellath dîn “and Rose his wife; and Elanor, Rose, Goldilocks and Daisy his daughters” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129

eirien

noun. daisy

A word for “daisy” as the name of one of the daughters of Samwise (SD/126). Its origin is unclear, but David Salo suggested it might be a loan from Q. Arien “Sun-maiden” (GS/228).

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s the word for “daisy” was G. hetheglon derived from primitive {ᴱ✶heth·seg·glôn >>} ᴱ✶heth·thed·’lon, effectively a combination of G. heth “white”, G. thed “eye”, and the genitive glôn of G. glâ “day” (GL/49), so literally “✱white eye-of-day”. G. glonthen “dandelion” from the same document had a similar derivation = “eye of the day” (GL/40).

Element in

• S. Eirien “Daisy” ✧ SD/126

Variations

• Eirien ✧ SD/126

eirien

noun. daisy (flower)

eirien

daisy

eirien (pl. eirin) (SD:128:31)

eirien

daisy

(pl. eirin) (SD:128:31)

arien

feminine name. Daisy

Changes

• Arien → Eirien “Daisy” ✧ SD/126

Variations

• Erien ✧ SD/121; SDI1/Erien