S. mîr n. “jewel, precious thing, treasure” (Category: Gem, Jewel)
The noun N. mîr “jewel, precious thing, treasure” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√MIR (Ety/MIR), and continued to appear regularly in Tolkien’s later writings with similar derivations and glosses (LotR/1115; PE17/37, 165; PM/348; RGEO/65). It is a frequent element in names.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s instead had G. idri “a treasure, a thing of great worth, a jewel” below a more archaic form of the same word G. †îd, both related to the name Idril (GL/50). Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. himp “jewel” (PE13/147), probably related to ᴱQ. sinqe “jewel” from this same period (PE14/42, 71), where initial s usually became h in Noldorin of the 1920s and labialized velars became labials (nq > mp).
References ✧ LB/354; LotR/1115; PE17/24, 37, 73, 165; PM/348; RGEO/65; SA/mîr
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| vîr | soft-mutation; m-mutation | ✧ LB/354 |
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| ✶mīrĭ > mîr | [mīri] > [mīre] > [mīr] | ✧ PE17/165 |
N. mîr n. “jewel, precious thing, treasure” (Category: Gem, Jewel)
References ✧ Ety/MIR, NAUK
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| ON. mîre > mîr | [mīre] > [mīr] | ✧ Ety/MIR |
ᴱN. himp n. “jewel” (Category: Gem, Jewel)
Reference ✧ PE13/147 ✧ “jewel”
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G. idri n. “treasure, thing of great worth, jewel” (Category: Treasure)
References ✧ GL/50; LT2A/Cûm an-Idrisaith
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