Gnomish
mîr
noun. wine
miros
noun. wine
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
mîr
noun. wine
miros
noun. wine
The words for “wine” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s were (archaic) G. †mîr and (ordinary) G. miros (GL/57), both related to ᴱQ. miru “wine” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/61).
Neo-Sindarin: In Tolkien’s later writing, S. mîr was “jewel” and S. miruvor was a loan word from Q. miruvórë, where the initial element was based on Val. mirub “wine” (PE17/37-38; WJ/399). I use ᴺS. miru for “wine” as a loan word from Quenya and an element in S. miruvor. This allows us to salvage various wine-related Gnomish words like ᴺS. mirybin “grape” (G. mirobin). However, a Sindarin word herw “wine” was published in 2024, which can be used if you want to avoid using words from the 1910s.