gīwă

noun. gīwă

giwi

root. *germinate, impregnate

A root in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with various derivatives having to do with pregnancy, such as G. gaiw “pregnant” and G. gioth “germ, foetus, embryon” (GL/37, 39). It also seems to have been the basis for the root ᴱ√QIMI “✱woman” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/77) via G(I)WIMI > GWIM > KWIM; see that root for details. As the basis for female words it was almost certainly abandoned, but I think it may be worth retaining this root for Neo-Sindarin words for pregancy, for which we have no other attested alternatives in Tolkien’s later published writings.

giwl

adjective. fecund; conceiving, having conceived, just pregnant

giwol

adjective. fecund; conceiving, having conceived, just pregnant

giwth

noun. germ, foetus, embryon

giol

adjective. fecund; conceiving, having conceived, just pregnant

An adjective in the Gnomish Lexicon with variant forms G. giol, giwol, and giwl as well as glosses “fecund; conceiving, having conceived, just pregnant”, a derivative of the early root ᴱ√giu̯i having to do with pregnancy (GL/39). It demonstrated the Gnomish sound change of iu to io.

Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this word as ᴺS. gŷl “fecund; having conceived” based on the Neo-Root ᴺ√GIW, since in Sindarin the sound change was iu > ȳ.

gioth

noun. germ, foetus, embryon

A noun appearing as G. gioth or giwth “germ, foetus, embryon” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√giu̯i [GIWI] which was the basis for a number of words having to do with pregnancy (GL/39), where iu to io as usual in Gnomish.

Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this word into Neo-Sindarin as ᴺS. gŷth, using the later sound change whereby iu > ȳ.