serni
place name. Serni
serni
noun. shingle, pebble bank
serni
place name. Pebble Bank
A river in Gondor appearing on the maps of The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1186). In his discussion of The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, Tolkien indicated this name was a collective noun or adjectival formation meaning “shingle, pebble bank” (VT42/11).
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, the name N. Serni appears in a list of rivers (TI/312, WR/436).
serni
shingle
serni (i herni, o serni) (pebble-bank), no distinct pl. form except with article (i serni)
serni
shingle
(i herni, o serni) (pebble-bank), no distinct pl. form except with article (i serni)
serni
pebble-bank
serni (i herni, o serni) (shingle), no distinct pl. form except with article (i serni)
serni
pebble-bank
(i herni, o serni) (shingle), no distinct pl. form except with article (i serni)
sarnië
noun. shingle, pebble bank
A noun for a “shingle, pebble bank” in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from 1967-69 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.
sarnië
shingle, pebble-bank
sarnië (sarniyë) noun "shingle, pebble-bank" (UT:463, VT42:11)
sarniye
noun. shingle, pebble bank
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
closs
noun. shingle
A word for “shingle” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, related to G. clog or cloch “a stone” and thus probably with the sense “mass of pebbles” (shingle bank) rather than “roof tile” (GL/26).
soraksa
noun. shingle
A noun for a “shingle, pebble bank” in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from 1967-69 from primitive ✶sarniye, the basis for the river name S. Serni (VT42/11). Here the gloss “shingle” is used in the sense of a mass of smell pebbles rather than as a roofing tile. This word is an unusual example of a final -i in Sindarin, because the i was protected by the final e that was itself lost. Tolkien indicated it might instead be an adjective formation (“pebbly”?) from the (rare) adjective suffix -i derived from primitive ✶-īya, -ēya (VT42/10-11).