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Gnomish

dauth

noun. skin, hide

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “skin, hide”, related to the verb G. daf- “strip, flay, peel skin” (GL/29).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√DAVA “*skin”

Element in

past

noun. skin

A word for “skin” appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s under G. path “peel, skin, bark” with pl. padhin (GL/63), hence probably related to ᴱQ. parma “skin, bark; parchment; book” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√PARA [✱PAÐA] (QL/72).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√PARA “*peel”