S. celebrin adj. “like silver (in hue or worth)” (Category: Silver)
An adjectival form of celeb “silver”. In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien described it as: “celebrin, adj. from celeb ‘silver’, not implying ‘made of silver’ but ‘like silver’ in hue, or worth” (PE17/42).
Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, G. celebrin meant “of silver” while G. celebriol meant “like silver” (GL/25). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s the form became ᴱN. celebren “of silver” (PE13/140). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien first equated N. celebren with ᴹQ. telpina “of silver” (Ety/KYELEP) but he revised the entry and updated its gloss to “like silver” (EtyAC/KYELEP). This new gloss did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/367), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne provided it in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT45/25). This new gloss is consistent with the meaning of celebrin in Tolkien’s later writings (see above).
References ✧ PE17/42; PM/179, 318; SA/celeb; VT47/8
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| celeb | “silver” | ✧ PE17/42; SA/celeb |
| #-ren | “adjective suffix” |
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N. celebren adj. “of silver, like silver” (Category: Silver)
References ✧ Ety/KYELEP; EtyAC/KYELEP
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| celeb | “silver” | ✧ Ety/KYELEP (celeb); Ety/KYELEP |
| #-ren | “adjective suffix” | ✧ Ety/KYELEP (#-ren) |
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ᴱN. celebren adj. “of silver” (Category: Silver)
References ✧ PE13/140
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| celebrin | plural | ✧ PE13/140 |
| cilibrin | plural | ✧ PE13/140 |
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| celeb | “silver” | ✧ PE13/140 |
G. celebrin adj. “of silver” (Category: Silver)
References ✧ GL/25; LT1A/Telimpë
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| celeb | “silver” | ✧ GL/25; LT1A/Telimpë |
| #-(r)in | “adjective suffix” | ✧ GL/25 (#-rin) |
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