Gnomish
ger
noun. ore, metal
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ger
noun. ore, metal
A word appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as G. ger “ore, metal” related to ᴱQ. yere(n) “pig iron” (GL/38; QL/105), since in Gnomish ancient initial y became g.
Neo-Sindarin: In a 2024-08-17 post in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Luinyelle suggested restoring ᴺQ. yeren “pig iron” with the added meaning “✱ore”, which also implies the preservation of ᴺS. [G.] ger “ore, [unrefined] metal”. Presumably these words would be derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√GYEREN of similar meaning.