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sarnië

shingle, pebble-bank

sarnië (sarniyë) noun "shingle, pebble-bank" (UT:463, VT42:11)

sarnië

noun. shingle, pebble bank

A noun for a “shingle, pebble bank” in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s from primitive ✶sarniye, also the basis for the river name S. Serni (VT42/11). It is clearly an abstract noun formation based on Q. sar (sarn-) “(small) stone”. Here the gloss “shingle” is used in the sense of a mass of smell pebbles rather than as a roofing tile.

Cognates

  • S. serni “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ UTI/Serni; VT42/11

Derivations

  • sarniye “shingle, pebble bank” ✧ VT42/11

Elements

WordGloss
sar“stone (small)”
-ië“abstract noun, adverb”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
sarniye > sarnie[sarnije] > [sarnie]✧ VT42/11

Variations

  • sarnie ✧ VT42/11
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