Gnomish
saigri
noun. hunger (great), famine
Cognates
- Eq. saikele “famine”
Elements
Word Gloss saig “hungry” -ri “abstract noun”
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A noun appearing as G. saigri “hunger (great), famine” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, an abstract noun formation based on G. saig “hungry” (GL/66).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I use ᴺS. saegon for “famine, (great) hunger”, an augmentative form of ᴺS. saeg “hunger”.