Early Noldorin
girdh
noun. entrails, bowels, inwards
Derivations
- ᴱ✶ʒirdǝ “entrails, bowels” ✧ PE13/161
Element in
- En. olerdh “pitiless, cruel, (lit.) without bowels” ✧ PE13/144; PE13/161
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A word appearing as ᴱN. girdh in Early Noldorin Word Lists of the 1920s, glossed either “inwards, entrails” (PE13/144) or “entrails, bowels” (PE13/161), with “inwards” being an archaic English variant of “innards” according to the editors. This word was originally a plural form of ᴱN. gir “interior”, from primitive ᴱ✶ʒirdǝ.
Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this word as ᴺS. irdh “entrails, bowels” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin based on this primitive form, since the ʒ vanished in Sindarin.