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N. cef n. “soil” (Category: Ground, Soil)

N. cef, n. “soil” (Category: Ground, Soil)

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “soil” derived from the root ᴹ√KEM “soil, earth” (Ety/KEM). It had a rather unusual plural form ceif which shows i-intrusion but not the usual i-raising of e to i; under ordinary phonetic developments the expected plural would be *cif. I can think of no good reason for this abnormal plural, but it would be ^caif if adapted to Sindarin. It is mostly moot since this word is very unlikely to be used in the plural.

References ✧ Ety/KEM

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ceif plural ✧ Ety/KEM

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ᴹ√KEM > cef [keme] > [kem] > [kev] ✧ Ety/KEM
ᴹ√KEM > ceif [kemi] > [keim] > [keiv] ✧ Ety/KEM

G. grosgen n. “soil” (Category: Ground, Soil)

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “soil”, a combination of G. groth “earth, soil” and suffixal G. -gen from the root ᴱ√KEME (GL/42). This root was glossed “soil” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/46), so the actual meaning of this word seems to be something like “earthy soil”.

References ✧ GL/26, 42; LT1A/Kémi

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groth “earth, soil” ✧ GL/42
-gen “*earth” ✧ GL/42; LT1A/Kémi

G. groth n. “earth, soil” (Category: Ground, Soil)

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “earth, soil” (GL/42). Its derivation is unclear, but it might be from a strengthened form of the root ᴱ√ROTO “hollow”.

Reference ✧ GL/42 ✧ “earth, soil”

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