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ᴱN. corn² n. “cheese” (Category: Cheese)

⚠️ᴱN. corn², n. “cheese” (Category: Cheese)
ᴺS. cûr “cheese”
N. corn “round, globed”

The word for “cheese” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s was G. cûr, related to G. caura “sour (of milk)” and derived from the early root ᴱ√TYURU “curdle” (GL/26, 28; QL/50). In Gnomish Lexicon Slips added to that document, “cheese” was instead cír from primitive ᴱ√tyus, with an alternate form cur written in pencil above it (PE13/113). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, “cheese” became ᴱN. corn from primitive ᴱ✶kyurna (PE13/140).

Neo-Sindarin: Of these, I prefer ᴺS. cûr for “cheese”, since ᴱN. corn “cheese” collides with later N. corn “round”. I assume ᴺS. cûr is derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√KYUR “curdle”, perhaps from primitive *kyūrŭ.

References ✧ PE13/140

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cyrn plural ✧ PE13/140

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G. cûr n. “cheese” (Category: Cheese)

See ᴱN. corn² for discussion.

References ✧ GL/28; PE13/111

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#ᴱ√tyuru- > cûr [tʲur] > [kur] ? [kūr] ✧ GL/28
ᴱ√kyus > cír [kjus] !!! [kīr] ✧ PE13/111