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Gnomish

gomintha

adverb. together

An adverb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a combination of G. go- “together” and G. mintha “in one place” (GL/41).

cinga-

verb. to go wrong, get tangled

failtha-

verb. go pale

hai

interjection. go!, hence, begone, away

in

noun. go, move, turn, occasion

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a go, a move, turn, occasion” (GL/51). It is not clear how this word was derived.

lith-

verb. to go, depart, be over, finish, end, die

A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “go, depart, be over, finish, end, die” (GL/54). The early root ᴱ√lith- also seems to have been related to time (see G. laith “time, the course of time”), so the meaning of this verb may have originally been exclusively temporal, only later spatial.

mútha-

verb. to depart, go, leave; (c. gen.) to leave the place of or time of speaker; to go forward

A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with various glosses: “depart, go, leave”, “c. gen. leave the place of, time of, speaker”, and “go forward” (GL/58). Below it Tolkien wrote another word G. mu whose gloss may be “flow” or “from” according to the editors. This mu may be the basis of the verb mútha-, especially if mu means “from”.

suthra-

verb. to hush, to make or go quiet

a

preposition. from

Gnomish [GG/11; GL/17; PE13/115] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cangi-

verb. to go wrong, get tangled

haitha-

verb. to hie, go, fare, walk

A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “hie, go, fare, walk”, related to G. hai “go!” and probably also G. hai “there” (GL/47).

Gnomish [GL/47; LT2A/Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva] Group: Eldamo. Published by

intha-

verb. to go (indefinite), fare, proceed

A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with glosses “go, indefinite, fare, proceed” and a past form aini, along with a Qenya cognate ᴱQ. inta- which had a past form īne (GL/51). Its derivation is unclear.

Gnomish [GL/18; GL/51] Group: Eldamo. Published by

o

preposition. from