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Gnomish

bedhgad

noun. wedlock

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as G. bedhgad “wedlock”, a combination of the early root ᴱ√Beđ- for marriage words and G. gad “joint” (GL/22, 36). It replaced a more archaic form G. †bedhiod. It also had a variant form besgad whose origin is less clear, but I suspect it is a feminized variant based on G. bess “wife”.

Cognates

  • Eq. vesta “state of marriage”

Variations

  • besgad ✧ GL/22; GL/36
Gnomish [GL/22; GL/36] Group: Eldamo. Published by

besgad

noun. wedlock

bedhiod

noun. wedlock

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√Beđ > bedhiod[βeðjat] > [beðjat] > [beðiat] > [beðiad]✧ GL/22