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Gnomish

dîr

adjective. long (of time)

A word appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as dîr² “long (of time only)” (GL/30). Gnomish Lexicon Slips correctly that document had {duir >>} dir “long (of time)” derived from ᴱ√✶dēr (PE13/112).

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