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Gnomish

idrisaith

noun. avarice, excessive love of gold and gems and beautiful and costly things

An element in the name Cûm an-Idrisaith “Mound of Avarice” in earliest The Lost Tales of the 1910s (LT2/223). The Gnomish Lexicon contrasted it with avosaith “avarice = money-greed”, whereas idrisaith meant “excessive love of gold and gems and beautiful and costly things” (GL/50). It was a combination of idri “treasure” and saith “hunger”.

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