Eldamo : Early Quenya : irmin

ᴱQ. irmin n. “the inhabited world” (Category: World)

⚠️ᴱQ. irmin, n. “the inhabited world” (Category: World): Q. Ambar “The World, Earth, (lit.) Habitation, Settlement”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “the inhabited world” and derived from the root ᴱ√IŘI [IÐI] “dwell”, with the usual change of ancient ð > z > r (QL/43). It also appeared in the phrase ᴱQ. Irmina Telume “End of the World, Great End” in a list of names from the same period (PE13/104). In later writings it seems to have been supplanted by Q. Ambar of similar meaning.

References ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Idril; PE13/104; QL/43

Glosses

“the inhabited world, the whole of the created world, not only earth” ✧ QL/43
“the world, all the regions inhabited by men” ✧ LT2A/Idril

Variations

irmin ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Idril; LT2A/Idril; QL/43

Inflections

Irmina

genitive; a-genitive

“of the World”

✧ PE13/104

Element In

ᴱQ. Irmaldi “Creatures of the Earth”
ᴱQ. Irmina Telume “End of the World, Great End” ✧ PE13/104

Cognates

G. Idhru “the world” ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Idril

Derivations

< ᴱ√IÐI “dwell‽” ✧ LT2A/Idril (IRI); QL/43 (IŘI)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√IŘI > irmin

[iðmin] > [izmin] > [irmin]

✧ QL/43