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Gnomish

noss

noun. rain

Changes

  • nôsnoss ✧ GL/61

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NOSO “*damp, wet”

Variations

  • noss ✧ GL/61
  • noth ✧ GL/61
  • nôs ✧ GL/61 (nôs)

noss

noun. birthday

nôs

noun. birthday; nature

A word appearing as G. {noss >>} nôs “birthday” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/61), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√ “become, be born” (QL/66). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Grammar it appeared with the gloss “nature” in phrases like nôs mora “good by nature” (GG/10).

Neo-Sindarin: The usual Neo-Sindarin word for “birthday” is ᴺS. oronnad, a combination of aur “day” and [ᴺS.] onnad “birth”. The word has been floating around for long enough that I have no idea where it originated, but I first learned of it from Fiona Jallings’s Sindarin word lists.

Changes

  • nossnôs “birthday” ✧ GL/61
  • nossnôs “birthday” ✧ LT2A/Duilin

Cognates

  • Eq. nosta “birth, birthday”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ “become, be born”

Element in

Variations

  • noss ✧ GL/61; GL/61 (noss); LT2A/Duilin (noss)
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noth

noun. rain

baur

noun. house

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶mbāră ✧ PE13/116; PE13/116

Variations

  • bawr ✧ PE13/116

dana nosteg

birthday

Changes

  • dana nossegdana nosteg ✧ GL/61

Variations

  • dana nosseg ✧ GL/61 (dana nosseg)

eithlos

noun. family

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips of the 1910s glossed “family, etc.” of unclear derivation, though it may be related to G. eithog “ancestor, †father, sire” (PE13/113).

uch

noun. rain

A noun for “rain” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from primitive ᴱ✶ukko (GL/74), probably based on the early root ᴱ√UQU “wet” which had derivatives like ᴱQ. ukku “rainbow” (QL/98).

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ukko “rain” ✧ GL/74
    • ᴱ√UQU “wet”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ukko > uch[ukko] > [ukk] > [uxx] > [ux]✧ GL/74

renni

noun. family

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a family”, derived from the early root ᴱ√redh- having to do with kin (GL/65).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√REÐE “kinsman” ✧ GL/65

gwaren

noun. family

gwarin(n)

noun. family

The word G. {gwaren >>} gwarin(n) “family” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from primitive ᴱ✶ŋuarenđā (GL/44). It was a combination of G. gwa- “together” and G. renni “family” (GL/65), but it is not clear why the e became i in the compound.

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin I would adapt this word as ᴺS. gwaren as a combination of later prefix gwa- “together” and the Neo-Root ᴺ√RE(N)D “kin”. Furthermore, I would use it specifically for a nuclear family (just the parents and children), as opposed to S. nos(s) which seems to refer to an extended family or clan.

Changes

  • gwarengwarin(n) ✧ GL/44

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ŋuarenđā > gwarin(n)[ŋʷarenðā] > [ŋgʷarenðā] > [gʷarenðā] > [gʷarenða] > [gʷarenda] > [gʷarenna] > [gʷaren] > [gʷarin]✧ GL/44

Variations

  • gwaren ✧ GL/44 (gwaren); GL/65
  • gwarin ✧ GL/65
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