Gnomish
mineth
noun. island
Derivations
- ᴱ√MINI “*tower” ✧ LT1A/Minethlos
Element in
- G. Minethlos “Argent Isle” ✧ GL/57; LT1A/Minethlos
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A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “island” (GL/57), probably connected to the root ᴱ√MINI in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon as suggested by Christopher Tolkien, as it was the basis of other words for raised objects like ᴱQ. mindon “turret” (LT1A/Minethlos; QL/061).