A noun for a “shingle, pebble bank” in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s from primitive ✶sarniye, also the basis for the river name S. Serni (VT42/11). It is clearly an abstract noun formation based on Q. sar (sarn-) “(small) stone”. Here the gloss “shingle” is used in the sense of a mass of smell pebbles rather than as a roofing tile.
Quenya
sarnië
shingle, pebble-bank
sarnië
noun. shingle, pebble bank
Cognates
- S. serni “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ UTI/Serni; VT42/11
Derivations
- ✶sarniye “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ VT42/11
Elements
Word Gloss sar “stone (small)” -ië “abstract noun, adverb” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶sarniye > sarnie [sarnije] > [sarnie] ✧ VT42/11 Variations
- sarnie ✧ VT42/11
sarnië (sarniyë) noun "shingle, pebble-bank" (UT:463, VT42:11)