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Gnomish

lais

noun. green sward, glade

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “green-sward, glade” from primitive ᴱ✶leχ-sa (GL/53), where the diphthong ei > ai arose from G. the vocalization of the spirant χ.

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶leχ-sa “green sward, glade” ✧ GL/53
    • ᴱ√LEHE “*smooth”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶leχ-sa > lais[lexsa] > [lexs] > [leis] > [lais]✧ GL/53