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Gnomish

hethir

noun. sister

A word for “sister” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a feminized form of G. heth “brother or sister, ✱sibling”, along with several (archaic) variant forms hethwin, hestril, and hethril (GL/48). It was ultimately derived from the early root ᴱ√HESE [HEÞE?] (QL/40).

Cognates

Variations

  • hethwin ✧ GL/48 (hethwin)
  • hestril ✧ GL/48 (hestril)
  • hethril ✧ GL/48 (hethril)