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Gnomish

ren(d)

noun. cousin (m.), relative

G. ren(d) appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a word for a male cousin or relative based on the early root ᴱ√redh- (GL/65). It had poetic equivalents G. redhweg and redhos; and the first of these also appeared in the more elaborate form G. goredhweg (GL/41). Two more variants, G. hethren and G. {gedrend >>} gedren, referred to first and second male cousins respectively, with the prefixes G. heth (for close relation) and G. ged (a more distant relation) respectively (GL/38; GL/48).

Neo-Sindarin: I would retain ᴺS. rend as a Neo-Sindarin word for “male cousin or relative” as a derivative of the Neo-Root ᴺ√RE(N)D, but would abandon all the more elaborate variants.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√REÐE “kinsman” ✧ GL/65

Element in

  • G. bedhren “brother in law, kinsman by marriage” ✧ GL/22
  • G. gadren “*brother in law, kinsman by marriage” ✧ GL/36
  • G. gedren “second cousin (m.)” ✧ GL/38
  • G. hethren “first cousin (m.)” ✧ GL/48
  • G. renn hethrin “first cousin” ✧ GL/48

Variations

  • ren ✧ GL/22 (ren); GL/36 (ren); GL/38 (ren); GL/48 (ren)
  • renn ✧ GL/48 (renn)
Gnomish [GL/22; GL/36; GL/38; GL/48; GL/65] Group: Eldamo. Published by

goredhweg

noun. cousin (m.)