S. #fern n. and adj. “dead” (Category: to Die; Dead; Death)
An adjective in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “dead (of mortals)” under the root ᴹ√PHIR “die of natural causes”, used as a plural noun in the name Dor Firn i Guinar “Land of the Dead that Live” (Ety/PHIR). Christopher Tolkien choose to include the name Dor Firn-i-Guinar in the published version of The Silmarillion (S/188), and most Sindarin writers accept its ongoing validity.
References ✧ S/188
Inflections
| Firn | plural | “dead” | ✧ S/188 |
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N. fern n. and adj. “dead (of mortals)” (Category: to Die; Dead; Death)
References ✧ Ety/PHIR
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| firn | plural | ✧ Ety/PHIR |
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√PHIR > fern | [pʰirna] > [ɸirna] > [ɸerna] > [ferna] > [fern] | ✧ Ety/PHIR |