Q. sarnië n. “shingle, pebble bank” (Category: Rock, Stone)
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.
References ✧ UTI/Serni; VT42/11
Glosses
Elements
| #sar | “stone (small)” |
| -ië¹ | “abstract noun, adverb” |
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ✶sarniye > sarnie | [sarnije] > [sarnie] | ✧ VT42/11 |