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Gnomish

marol

noun. sand

A noun with variants marol and mara in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “sand”, probably a derivative of the root ᴱ√MARA (GL/56); see the entry on the root for further discussion. In later writings, Tolkien used N. lith for “sand”.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MARA “*sand, soil” ✧ GL/56

Variations

  • mara ✧ GL/56

mara

noun. sand