S. gordh¹ adj. “difficult, laborious” (Category: Difficult)
An adjective glossed “difficult, laborious” in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 derived from the root √GUR of similar meaning (PE17/154). Tolkien indicated it was used mainly “in a very strong sense of things very painful and horrible to do”; see the entry on its prefixal form gor- for discussion. A more ordinary adjective for “hard, difficult” was dîr.
Reference ✧ PE17/154 ✧ gorð “difficult, laborious”
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√GUR > gorð | [gurdā] > [gurda] > [gurða] > [gorða] > [gorð] | ✧ PE17/154 |