Dan. Gochressiel loc.

Dan. Gochressiel loc.

Earliest name of S. Crissaegrim from Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/285, 301). In The Etymologies, it was marked as Danian and contained the element Dan. hrassa “precipice” (Ety/KHARÁS), where the older “ch” [x] did not become [h] because it was not an initial consonant, and the [a] was mutated to [e] by the following [i] in the suffix -iel. The [a] also appeared unmutated in the shorter form Gochrass. The meanings of the prefix go- and suffix -iel are unclear.

References ✧ Ety/KHARÁS; LR/285, 301; LRI; SDI1/Gochressiel; WJ/239; WJI

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hrassa “precipice” ✧ Ety/KHARÁS