Gnomish
ham
noun. ground, level of Earth’s service [surface]
-bar
suffix. dweller; home, -ham
pel
suffix. village, hamlet, -ham
pridwir
noun. judge
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ham
noun. ground, level of Earth’s service [surface]
-bar
suffix. dweller; home, -ham
pel
suffix. village, hamlet, -ham
pridwir
noun. judge
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “ground, level of Earth’s service” (GL/48); the editors suggested that “service” is almost certainly a slip for “surface”. It is clearly a cognate of ᴱQ. han (ham-) “ground, earth”, and so must be derived from the same root ᴱ√HAMA (QL/39).