Gnomish
tuim
noun. steam
tuil
noun. spring
aithl
noun. spring
aithyl
noun. spring
hairen
feminine name. Spring
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A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s originally glossed “bud”, but this was revised to “steam” (GL/71). Before the change in gloss, this word was probably derived from the early root ᴱ√TUẎU which had various bud-related derivatives (QL/96), but after the change its etymology is unclear.