Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : gonneb

ᴺS. !gonneb adj. “stony, rocky” (Category: Rock, Stone)

ᴺS. !gonneb, adj. “stony, rocky” (Category: Rock, Stone): G. clochiol “stone”; G. clogrin “stony, stone-like”

A neologism coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo, an adjectival form of S. gond “stone, rock”, as a replacement for early Gnomish words like G. gonwed “rocky”.

!gonneb “stony, rocky” vs. S. sarn “(small) stone, pebble, gem; stony (place)”

Elements

S. gond

“stone, rock”

G. gonwed adj. “rocky” (Category: Rock, Stone)

A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s given as {gondriol “rock”} >> gonwen “rocky”, an adjectival form of G. gonn “great stone, rock” (GL/41).

References ✧ GL/41

Glosses

“rock” ✧ GL/41 (gonriol)
“rocky” ✧ GL/41

Variations

gonwed ✧ GL/41
gonriol ✧ GL/41

Changes

gonriol “rock” >> gonwed “rocky” ✧ GL/41

Elements

gonn	“(great) stone, rock”	✧ GL/41
#-wed	“adjective suffix”	✧ GL/41 (#-wed)

Cognates

ᴱQ. onwa “stony”