Quenya
sar
(small) stone
sardincë
noun. pebble
Elements
- sar “stone; stone (small)”
sardincë
noun. pebble
Elements
Word Gloss sar “stone (small)” -incë “diminutive ending”
Sindarin
sarn
noun/adjective. (small) stone, pebble; stony (place), (small) stone, pebble; stony (place), *with many stones; [N.] stone as a material
Variations
- Sarn ✧ RC/775
- sern ✧ VT42/11
Cognates
- Q. sar “stone (small)”
Element in
- S. Edhelharn “Elfstone”
- ᴺS. gaessarn “pearl, (lit.) sea-pebble/stone”
- S. Sarn Athrad “Ford of Stones” ✧ RC/163; RC/775; SA/sarn
- S. Sarn Gebir “Stone-spikes” ✧ RC/327; RC/775; SA/sarn
- S. Serni “Pebble Bank” ✧ SA/sarn
- S. serni “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ UTI/Serni; VT42/11
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Early Quenya
hyelle
noun. pebble
tolot
noun. pebble, cobble-stone
Inflections
Word Form Gloss Source [tolo]kta stem - ✧ PE15/77
lalle
noun. pebble
Derivations
- ᴱ√LALA “*babble” ✧ QL/050
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√LALA > lalle [lalli] > [lalle] ✧ QL/050 Inflections
Word Form Gloss Source lalli- stem - ✧ QL/050
sar (sard-, as in pl. sardi) noun "(small) stone" (SAR). In Elessar, q.v. Since Tolkien let this name have a stem in -sarn- (genitive Ele[s]sarno, VT49:28), he may seem to have changed the stem-form of sar from sard- to sarn-.