Quenya 

tyur

cheese

tyur noun "cheese" (QL:50 cf. GL:28)

tyurmë

noun. cheese

Cognates

  • ᴺS. cûr “cheese”

Derivations

  • ᴺ✶. KYUR “curdle”

Sindarin 

cûr

noun. cheese

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴺ✶. KYUR “curdle”

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Gnomish

cauri

noun. cheese

cûr

noun. cheese

Cognates

  • Eq. tyur “cheese”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KYURU “curdle” ✧ GL/28; PE13/111

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√tyuru- > cûr[tʲur] > [kur] > [kūr]✧ GL/28
ᴱ√kyus > cír[kjus] > [kīr]✧ PE13/111

Variations

  • cír ✧ PE13/111
  • cur ✧ PE13/111
Gnomish [GL/28; PE13/111] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cír

noun. cheese

Early Noldorin

corn

noun. cheese

The word for “cheese” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s was G. cûr, related to G. caura “sour (of milk)” and derived from the early root ᴱ√TYURU “curdle” (GL/26, 28; QL/50). In Gnomish Lexicon Slips added to that document, “cheese” was instead cír from primitive ᴱ√tyus, with an alternate form cur written in pencil above it (PE13/113). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, “cheese” became ᴱN. corn from primitive ᴱ✶kyurna (PE13/140).

Neo-Sindarin: Of these, I prefer ᴺS. cûr for “cheese”, since ᴱN. corn “cheese” collides with later N. corn “round”. I assume ᴺS. cûr is derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√KYUR “curdle”, perhaps from primitive ✱kyūrŭ.

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶kyurna ✧ PE13/140
    • ᴱ√KYURU “curdle” ✧ PE13/140

Variations

  • corn ✧ PE13/140
Early Noldorin [PE13/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

tyur

noun. cheese

The word for “cheese” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s was ᴱQ. tyur (tyurd-) derived from the early root ᴱ√TYURU “curdle” (QL/50). This became ᴱQ. tyurme “cheese” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/141).

Neo-Quenya: I’d use ᴺQ. tyurmë “cheese” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√KYUR.

Cognates

  • G. cûr “cheese”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KYURU “curdle” ✧ QL/050

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TYURU > tyur[tʲurd] > [tʲur]✧ QL/050

Variations

  • tyurme ✧ PE16/141
Early Quenya [PE16/141; QL/050] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tyurme

noun. cheese