giwi

root. *germinate, impregnate

A root in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with various derivatives having to do with pregnancy, such as G. gaiw “pregnant” and G. gioth “germ, foetus, embryon” (GL/37, 39). It also seems to have been the basis for the root ᴱ√QIMI “✱woman” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/77) via G(I)WIMI > GWIM > KWIM; see that root for details. As the basis for female words it was almost certainly abandoned, but I think it may be worth retaining this root for Neo-Sindarin words for pregancy, for which we have no other attested alternatives in Tolkien’s later published writings.

Derivatives

• ᴱ✶gīwă
  • G. gaiw “pregnant” ✧ GL/37
• Eq. kiw- “*to germinate, impregnate” ✧ GL/39
• G. gwin “woman, female” ✧ GL/45
• G. giothra- “to germinate, be conceived” ✧ GL/39
• G. giol “fecund; conceiving, having conceived, just pregnant” ✧ GL/39
• G. gioth “germ, foetus, embryon” ✧ GL/39

Variations

• giu̯i ✧ GL/39; GL/45
• giwi- ✧ GL/45