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Gnomish

madri

noun. food, edibles; a meal

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “food, edibles” also with the sense “a meal” (GL/55), a combination of the early root ᴱ√MATA “eat” (QL/59) with the abstract noun suffix -ri.

Cognates

Element in

  • G. madrin “edible, fit for food, wholesome” ✧ GL/55
  • G. authmadri “midday meal” ✧ GL/20
  • G. haimadri “lunch, food in morning, elevens” ✧ GL/47

Elements

WordGloss
MATA“eat”
-ri“abstract noun”
Gnomish [GL/20; GL/47; GL/55] Group: Eldamo. Published by