Gnomish
bess
noun. wife
Cognates
- Eq. veri “wife”
Derivations
- ᴱ√VEÐE ✧ GL/22
Element in
- G. bessin moron “good wives” ✧ GG/15
- G. bess mora “a good wife” ✧ GG/15
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√Beđ > bess [βeðs] > [beðs] > [bess] ✧ GL/22
bedhril
noun. wife
nîr
noun. woman
Cognates
- Eq. nî “woman” ✧ GL/60
A noun appearing as (archaic) G. †bedhril “wife” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, replaced in ordinary speech by G. bess (GL/22). It is a combination of the early root ᴱ√Beđ that was the basis for marriage words and the feminine agental suffix G. -(r)il (GL/22).
Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this into Neo-Sindarin as ᴺS. bethril “spouse (f.)”, a combination of the later root ᴹ√BES “wed” and the same agental suffix, where sr became thr.