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Gnomish

-in

suffix. plural suffix

Cognates

  • Eq. -i “plural suffix” ✧ GG/10

Derivations

Variations

  • -in ✧ GG/10; GG/10

-in

suffix. adjective ending

Element in

  • G. gulin “patient, enduring, long suffering; (lit.) burdened” ✧ GL/38
  • G. orcômin “fierce and bloody minded”

Variations

  • -in ✧ GL/38

-(i)on

suffix. adjectival suffix

Element in

  • G. ailion “lake, pool” ✧ GL/17
  • G. agrecthion “despised” ✧ GL/27
  • G. alewthion “having fingers”
  • G. argulthion “equal, equivalent” ✧ GL/20
  • G. baron “from home, out, away, abroad” ✧ GL/21
  • G. carthion “complete, perfect” ✧ GL/25
  • G. far(o)n “separate, different, strange” ✧ GL/34
  • G. calon “grown (of plants), budd[ing], in blade (of corn)” ✧ GL/25
  • G. hebon “bound; (also) bounded, surrounded” ✧ GL/48
  • G. gwedhwion “bending, looping” ✧ GL/46
  • G. gwidhon “woven” ✧ GL/46
  • G. helon “frozen” ✧ GL/48
  • G. falon “naked” ✧ GL/33
  • G. gweron “spun, rounded, cylindrical” ✧ GL/46
  • G. furion “secret, concealed, hidden” ✧ GL/36

Variations

  • -ion ✧ GL/17 (-ion); GL/20 (-ion); GL/25 (-ion); GL/27 (-ion); GL/36 (-ion); GL/46 (-ion)
  • -on ✧ GL/21 (-on); GL/25 (-on); GL/33 (-on); GL/34 (-on); GL/46 (-on); GL/46 (-on); GL/48 (-on); GL/48 (-on)
Gnomish [GL/17; GL/20; GL/21; GL/25; GL/27; GL/33; GL/34; GL/36; GL/46; GL/48] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-(r)in

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. angrin “of iron, iron” ✧ GL/19
  • G. anothrin “adult (of men), fullgrown; manly” ✧ GL/19
  • G. aulin “wrong” ✧ GL/20
  • G. baldrin “mighty” ✧ GL/21
  • G. belin “expanded, unrolled, unfurled, set (of sails)” ✧ GL/22
  • G. benin “shapely, pretty” ✧ GL/22
  • G. bedhin “wedded, married” ✧ GL/22
  • G. felegrin “equable” ✧ GL/34
  • G. felthadrin “probable” ✧ GL/34
  • G. blethrin “gracious, kind” ✧ GL/23
  • G. celchin “of glass” ✧ GL/25
  • G. celebrin “of silver” ✧ GL/25
  • G. cîrin “present (place or time), modern” ✧ GL/26
  • G. clogrin “stony, stone-like” ✧ GL/26
  • G. codrin “nutty” ✧ GL/26
  • G. crogin “hooked” ✧ GL/27
  • G. culwin “golden” ✧ GL/27
  • G. curin “magical” ✧ GL/28 (curin)
  • G. dribin “worn out” ✧ GL/30
  • G. elegrin “different, strange” ✧ GL/32
  • G. Egladrin
  • G. egrin “wide, vast, broad; far” ✧ GL/32
  • G. erethrin “isolated, solitary, lonely” ✧ GL/33
  • G. embrin “by name, named” ✧ GL/32 (embrin)
  • G. fadrin “sufficient” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fadin “sated, saturated” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fathrin “tasselled” ✧ GL/34
  • G. fegrin “free” ✧ QL/037
  • G. fidhrin “haired”
  • G. flathrin “foamy, tasseled” ✧ GL/35
  • G. fofrin “foolish” ✧ GL/35
  • G. gaisin “of steel” ✧ GL/37
  • G. gaithrin “like steel” ✧ GL/37
  • G. gedrin “sib, akin” ✧ GL/38
  • G. gîrin “bygone, old, belonging to former days, olden, former, ancient” ✧ GL/38
  • G. glanthin “cleanly, pure” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glanwethrin “cleanly, pure” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glastrin “marble” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glathrin “brilliant, lucent” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glen(d)rin “slender” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glôrin “golden, of gold” ✧ GL/40
  • G. glothrin “white, clear white” ✧ GL/40
  • G. godaithri(o)n “learned, educated” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gudhrin “inflamed, burning hot” ✧ GL/42
  • G. haithin “gone, departed, lost” ✧ GL/47
  • G. fedhin “bound by agreement; ally, friend”
  • G. gwegrin “masculine” ✧ GL/44
  • G. ganothrin “youthful” ✧ GL/37
  • G. giothrin “embryonic” ✧ GL/39
  • G. celegrin “glassy, like glass” ✧ GL/25
  • G. hethrin “of the same family (in a close sense), consanguine” ✧ GL/48
  • G. haugrin “lowly, humble, mean” ✧ GL/48
  • G. cagrin “funny, amusing” ✧ GL/24
  • G. glingrin “musical” ✧ GL/39
  • G. ausin “rich; fortune” ✧ GL/20
  • G. gwethrin “welcome, acceptable” ✧ GL/47
  • G. fagin “cut” ✧ GL/33
  • G. singrin “salt”
  • G. aurin “made (by craft of hand), wrought, fashioned” ✧ GL/20
  • G. gerin “metallic” ✧ GL/38
  • G. fostrin “odorous” ✧ GL/36

Variations

  • -rin ✧ GL/19 (-rin); GL/19 (-rin); GL/21 (-rin); GL/23 (-rin); GL/24 (-rin); GL/25 (-rin); GL/25 (-rin); GL/26 (-rin); GL/26 (-rin); GL/26 (-rin); GL/32 (-rin); GL/32 (-rin); GL/32 (-rin); GL/33 (-rin); GL/33 (-rin); GL/34 (-rin); GL/34 (-rin); GL/34 (-rin); GL/35 (-rin); GL/35 (-rin); GL/36 (-rin); GL/37 (-rin); GL/37 (-rin); GL/38 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/39 (-rin); GL/40 (-rin); GL/40 (-rin); GL/44 (-rin); GL/47 (-rin); GL/48 (-rin); GL/48 (-rin); QL/037 (-rin)
  • -in ✧ GL/20 (-in); GL/20 (-in); GL/20 (-in); GL/22 (-in); GL/22 (-in); GL/22 (-in); GL/25 (-in); GL/27 (-in); GL/27 (-in); GL/28 (-in); GL/30 (-in); GL/33 (-in); GL/33 (-in); GL/37 (-in); GL/38 (-in); GL/38 (-in); GL/39 (-in); GL/40 (-in); GL/42 (-in); GL/47 (-in)
Gnomish [GL/19; GL/20; GL/21; GL/22; GL/23; GL/24; GL/25; GL/26; GL/27; GL/28; GL/30; GL/32; GL/33; GL/34; GL/35; GL/36; GL/37; GL/38; GL/39; GL/40; GL/42; GL/44; GL/47; GL/48; QL/037] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-li

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. fabli “sense of touch” ✧ GL/33
  • G. brigli “variation” ✧ GL/24
  • G. togli “cap”
  • G. cwathli “plume, spray, tassel” ✧ GL/28
  • G. dothli “drizzle” ✧ GL/30 (dothli)
  • G. egli(n) “needle” ✧ GL/32
  • G. faigli “hair, long tresses” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fathli “tasselled fringe” ✧ GL/34
  • G. fafli “bladder” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fimli “skill” ✧ GL/35
  • G. fingli “narrow place, straits, sound, pass in mountains” ✧ GL/35
  • G. gethli “friendship” ✧ GL/38
  • G. gobli “dell” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gwembel “weevil” ✧ GL/45
  • G. fwegli “brush” ✧ GL/36
  • G. gimli “(sense of) hearing” ✧ GL/38
  • G. curuthli “enchantments, sorcery” ✧ GL/28
  • G. cwinglios “archery” ✧ GL/28
  • G. sogli “a drinking-horn” ✧ GL/68
  • G. tuthli “match”
Gnomish [GL/24; GL/28; GL/30; GL/32; GL/33; GL/34; GL/35; GL/36; GL/38; GL/40; GL/45; GL/68] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-on

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. gavon “harvest (time)” ✧ GL/38
  • G. glingon “song, chanting, chant” ✧ GL/39
Gnomish [GL/38; GL/39] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-wi

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. flathwi “scud, spray, spindrift” ✧ GL/35
  • G. hebwirol “circumspect” ✧ GL/48

Variations

  • -wi ✧ GL/35 (-wi); GL/48 (-wi)
Gnomish [GL/35; GL/48] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ing

noun. fish

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ√IWI “*fish”

Element in

  • G. igli “young of fish, small fry” ✧ GL/51

-thi

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. cailthi “kiss” ✧ GL/24
  • G. grilthi “finger-ring” ✧ GL/42
  • G. failthi “pallor” ✧ GL/33
  • G. finthi “idea, notion” ✧ GL/35
  • G. glant(hi) “cleanness” ✧ GL/39
  • G. gofelthi “exact similarity” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gwalthi “fortune, happiness” ✧ GL/44
  • G. gwanthi “fairness, beauty; a fair face, pretty” ✧ LT1A/Vána
  • G. gwilthi “peace” ✧ GL/45
  • G. halthi “sheath” ✧ GL/47

Variations

  • -thi ✧ GL/24 (-thi); GL/33 (-thi); GL/35 (-thi); GL/39 (-thi); GL/40 (-thi); GL/42 (-thi); GL/44 (-thi); GL/45 (-thi); GL/47 (-thi); LT1A/Vána (-thi)
Gnomish [GL/24; GL/33; GL/35; GL/39; GL/40; GL/42; GL/44; GL/45; GL/47; LT1A/Vána] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-wen

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

Variations

  • -wen ✧ GG/08 (-wen); GL/19 (-wen); GL/22 (-wen); GL/24 (-wen); GL/25 (-wen); GL/29 (-wen); GL/30 (-wen); GL/31 (-wen); GL/33 (-wen); GL/35 (-wen); GL/36 (-wen); GL/38 (-wen); GL/42 (-wen); GL/42 (-wen); GL/43 (-wen); GL/49 (-wen); LT1A/Palúrien (-wen); PE13/114 (-wen)
Gnomish [GG/08; GL/19; GL/22; GL/24; GL/25; GL/29; GL/30; GL/31; GL/33; GL/35; GL/36; GL/38; GL/42; GL/43; GL/49; LT1A/Palúrien; PE13/114] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-(i)ol

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. aglar(i)ol “glorious” ✧ GL/17
  • G. barchol “terrible, awful” ✧ GL/22
  • G. bodruithol “vengeful (by nature)” ✧ GL/23 (bodruithol)
  • G. bronniol “constant, faithful” ✧ GL/24
  • G. cancol “laughing” ✧ GL/24 (cancol)
  • G. cauthiol “tasteful, endowed with good taste; discreet, circumspect” ✧ GL/24
  • G. clochiol “stone” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gumriol “burdensome” ✧ GL/43
  • G. cucthol “painstaking” ✧ GL/27
  • G. cunghol “painstaking” ✧ GL/27
  • G. diriol “tedious” ✧ GL/30
  • G. drauthiol “arduous, labourious” ✧ GL/30
  • G. egriol “excessive”
  • G. enwiol “nominal” ✧ GL/32
  • G. dairiol “merry (of things), funny” ✧ GL/29
  • G. glarossiol “dazzling” ✧ GL/39
  • G. glôriol “golden, like gold” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gudhriol “inflamed, inflammatory” ✧ GL/42
  • G. gwassiol “rushing, noisy, loud, rustling or splashing” ✧ GL/44
  • G. gwenniniol “maiden(ly), girlish” ✧ GL/45
  • G. gwilbriniol “like a butterfly” ✧ GL/45
  • G. gwirthol “reluctant” ✧ GL/46
  • G. bridol “changing, varying, variable” ✧ GL/24
  • G. hadhol “abiding; enduring, constant, faithful” ✧ GL/47
  • G. hadruithol “vengeful” ✧ GL/47
  • G. hiriol “anxious” ✧ GL/49
  • G. gwiniol “feminine” ✧ GL/45
  • G. gimriol “audible, noticeable” ✧ GL/38
  • G. gwesol “affable” ✧ GL/47
  • G. gothriol “warlike” ✧ GL/42
  • G. brigol “afraid; fearful, timid” ✧ GL/24

Variations

  • -ol ✧ GL/17 (-ol); GL/22 (-ol); GL/23 (-ol); GL/24 (-ol); GL/24 (-ol); GL/24 (-ol); GL/27 (-ol); GL/27 (-ol); GL/38 (-ol); GL/42 (-ol); GL/42 (-ol); GL/43 (-ol); GL/46 (-ol); GL/47 (-ol); GL/47 (-ol); GL/47 (-ol)
  • -iol ✧ GL/24 (-iol); GL/24 (-iol); GL/29 (-iol); GL/30 (-iol); GL/30 (-iol); GL/32 (-iol); GL/39 (-iol); GL/40 (-iol); GL/40 (-iol); GL/44 (-iol); GL/45 (-iol); GL/45 (-iol); GL/45 (-iol); GL/49 (-iol)
Gnomish [GL/17; GL/22; GL/23; GL/24; GL/27; GL/29; GL/30; GL/32; GL/38; GL/39; GL/40; GL/42; GL/43; GL/44; GL/45; GL/46; GL/47; GL/49] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-r(i)ol

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

Variations

  • -rol ✧ GL/17 (-rol); GL/25 (-rol); GL/48 (-rol)
  • -riol ✧ GL/24 (-riol); GL/25 (-riol); GL/29 (-riol); GL/32 (-riol); GL/42 (-riol)
Gnomish [GL/17; GL/24; GL/25; GL/29; GL/32; GL/42; GL/48] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-eg

suffix. adjectival suffix

-la

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

Variations

  • -la ✧ GL/24 (-la)

-od

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. archod “difficulty” ✧ PE13/110
  • G. cariod(wen) “activity” ✧ GL/25
  • G. driod “heroism, valour” ✧ GL/30
  • G. drogod “slavery, bondage, thraldom” ✧ GL/31
  • G. gruithod “ferocious wrath” ✧ GL/42
  • G. golod “stink, stench” ✧ GL/41
Gnomish [GL/25; GL/30; GL/31; GL/41; GL/42; PE13/110] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-og

suffix. adjectival suffix

Element in

  • G. aistog “holy, revered, awful” ✧ GL/18
  • G. alepthog “fingered, having fingers”
  • G. feleg “equal” ✧ GL/34
  • G. bodruithog “thirsting for vengeance (for a particular act)” ✧ GL/23 (bodruithog)
  • G. crithog “circular” ✧ GL/27
  • G. cuilog “alive, lively” ✧ GL/27
  • G. cwiliog “bright-hued” ✧ GL/28
  • G. driog “valiant” ✧ GL/30
  • G. duileg “having power of flight, fledged” ✧ GL/31
  • G. durog “wooden” ✧ GL/31
  • G. eleg “other, else” ✧ GL/32
  • G. aithog “thorny” ✧ GL/18
  • G. ereg “alone, only” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fadrog “tiresome” ✧ GL/33
  • G. dairog “merry (of persons)” ✧ GL/29
  • G. glamog “loathsome” ✧ GL/39
  • G. golog “stinking” ✧ GL/41
  • G. grileg “ringed, hooped shape” ✧ GL/42
  • G. hadruithog “thirsting for vengeance” ✧ GL/47
  • G. flanthog “scornful” ✧ GL/35
  • G. fenog “venomous” ✧ GL/34
  • G. gwedhweg “meandering, twisting, winding, intricate” ✧ GL/46
  • G. elfeg “half” ✧ GL/32
  • G. gruithog “ferocious, mad with wrath” ✧ GL/42
  • G. âlog “of wood, wooden” ✧ GL/19
  • G. ufestog “breathless”

Variations

  • -eg ✧ GL/31 (-eg); GL/32 (-eg); GL/32 (-eg); GL/33 (-eg); GL/34 (-eg); GL/42 (-eg); GL/46 (-eg)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/19; GL/23; GL/27; GL/28; GL/29; GL/30; GL/31; GL/32; GL/33; GL/34; GL/35; GL/39; GL/41; GL/42; GL/46; GL/47] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ra

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. gwandra “beautiful” ✧ LT1A/Vána
  • G. gwadhra “habitable” ✧ GL/47
  • G. bodra “back(ward), hinder, rear” ✧ GL/23
  • G. cingra “plaited” ✧ GL/26
  • G. hadra “opposing, facing, opposite; equivalent” ✧ GL/47
  • G. egra “distant, far away” ✧ GL/32
  • G. aithra “piercing, sharp; thorny” ✧ GL/18
  • G. fodra “the last, latest, endmost” ✧ GL/35
  • G. hamra “lowly, lowlying; base” ✧ GL/48
  • G. hagra “seated” ✧ GL/47

Variations

  • -ra ✧ GL/18 (-ra); GL/23 (-ra); GL/26 (-ra); GL/32 (-ra); GL/35 (-ra); GL/47 (-ra); GL/47 (-ra); GL/47 (-ra); GL/48 (-ra); LT1A/Vána (-ra)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/23; GL/26; GL/32; GL/35; GL/47; GL/48; LT1A/Vána] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-st

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. haurost “dawn” ✧ GL/20 (aurost)

-th

suffix. plural suffix

Cognates

  • Eq. -r “plural suffix” ✧ GG/10

Derivations

  • G. -tt “dual” ✧ GG/10
    • ᴱ✶-ttǝ “dual” ✧ GG/10

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
G. -tt > -th[-tt] > [-θθ] > [-θ]✧ GG/10

-wed

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in

  • G. caithonwed “original” ✧ GL/24
  • G. celchwed “glassy” ✧ GL/25
  • G. clogwed “stony, stone-covered” ✧ GL/26
  • G. codwed “nutbearing” ✧ GL/26
  • G. dairwed “merry, funny (common)” ✧ GL/29
  • G. deldrinwed “beechen” ✧ GL/30
  • G. drogwed “servile, slavish; base, mean” ✧ GL/31
  • G. faronwed “foreign” ✧ GL/34
  • G. egwed “far, distant” ✧ PE13/113
  • G. fathwed “tasselled” ✧ GL/34
  • G. galwed “brilliant, shining” ✧ PE13/114
  • G. godaithrinwed “grammatical” ✧ GL/40
  • G. gonwed “rocky” ✧ GL/41
  • G. grithonwed “thoughtful, careful; unselfish” ✧ GL/42
  • G. gwavwed “windy” ✧ GL/43
  • G. gwegwed “male” ✧ GL/44
  • G. hilwed “adolescent” ✧ GL/49
  • G. in(d)wed “indoors, at home; homely, domestic(ated)”
  • G. gwinwed “female” ✧ GL/45
  • G. erwed “unique” ✧ GL/33
  • G. fedhwed “lawful”
  • G. calwed “flourishing, adolescent” ✧ GL/25
  • G. fabwed “corpulent” ✧ GL/34
Gnomish [GL/24; GL/25; GL/26; GL/29; GL/30; GL/31; GL/33; GL/34; GL/40; GL/41; GL/42; GL/43; GL/44; GL/45; GL/49; PE13/113; PE13/114] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-weth

suffix. noun suffix

Element in

  • G. bronweth “constancy” ✧ GL/24
  • G. gedweth “kinship†, friendship” ✧ GL/38
  • G. glanweth “cleanliness, purity” ✧ GL/39
  • G. gwalweth “fortune, happiness” ✧ GL/44
  • G. gwegweth “male sex, manhood (state)” ✧ GL/44
  • G. gwinweth “female sex, womanhood (state)” ✧ GL/45
  • G. glenweth “thinness” ✧ GL/39
  • G. nigweth “(snow) storm”
Gnomish [GL/24; GL/38; GL/39; GL/44; GL/45] Group: Eldamo. Published by

to

proper name. To

Cognates

  • Eq. Tombo “Gong (of the Children)” ✧ PE15/07

-thol Reconstructed

suffix. adjective suffix

Element in