gorthad

noun. wraith, spirit of Dead

A word for “wraith, spirit of Dead” in the name Tyrn Gorthad “Barrow-downs”, more literally “✱mounds of wraith/spirit of the dead” (LotR/1040; PE17/116). The initial element of this word is clearly gorth “dead” and its second element might just be the abstract noun ending -ad; hat-tip to Vyacheslav Stepanov for this suggestion. Hammond and Scull suggested it might instead be gorth “dread” + sad “place”, or “dread place = barrow” (RC/691), but they did not cite a source for this etymology.

gorthad

noun. wraith

n. wraith, spirit of Dead. >> Tyrn Gorthad

gorthad

noun. barrow

gorthad

barrow

1) gorthad (i ngorthad = i ñorthad, o n**gorthad = o ñgorthad), pl. gerthaid (in gerthaid = i ñgerthaid). The literal meaning may be ”place of the dead”: gorth ”dead” + sâd, -had ”place”. Archaic pl. ”goerthaid” = görthaid (PM:194), 2) haudh (i chaudh, o chaudh) (burial mound, grave, tomb), pl. hoedh (i choedh), coll. pl. hodhath**

gorthad

barrow

(i ngorthad = i ñorthad, o n’gorthad = o ñgorthad), pl. gerthaid (in gerthaid = i ñgerthaid). The literal meaning may be ”place of the dead”: gorth ”dead” + sâd, -had ”place”. Archaic pl. ”goerthaid” = görthaid (PM:194)

haudh

barrow

(i chaudh, o chaudh) (burial mound, grave, tomb), pl. hoedh (i choedh), coll. pl. hodhath