Gnomish
dorm
noun. summit
Cognates
- Eq. torme “mountain (peak)”
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶daormĕ- > dorm [daorme] > [dorme] > [dorm] ✧ GL/30
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A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “summit” derived from ᴱ✶daormĕ- (GL/42). It is probably the cognate of ᴱQ. torme “mountain peak” and thus a derivative of ᴱ√TAHA (QL/87), which based on its Gnomish derivatives is probably ✱ᴱ√DAHA.