Gnomish
cwim(ri)
noun. body, flesh
Variations
- cwim² ✧ GL/28
- cwim{b}ri ✧ GL/28
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A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as cwim² “body, flesh” underneath G. cwim “awake, alert, alive”, with both apparently being derived from the early root ᴱ√QIV (GL/28); if so the sense “body” probably represent some amount of semantic drift, since the corresponding Qenya forms primarily had the sense “awake” (GL/29). The form cwim² had a variant cwimbri in which the b was deleted, though the editors said it was also possibly that cwimbri >> cwimru.