S. ereb adj. “single, alone, lonely” (Category: Alone, Only)
A word for “single, alone, [N.] isolated” derived from primitive ✶erikwa base on √ER “one” (VT42/10; Ety/ERE). It is an element in names like Erebor “Lonely Mountain” and Amon Ereb “Lonely Hill”.
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s its primitive form was ᴹ✶ereqa (Ety/ERE). The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s instead had G. ereg “alone, only” along with G. erethrin “isolated, solitary, lonely” (GL/33). The latter was a noun form of ereth “solitude, oneness, loneliness” and it had a variant erethog originally glossed “united, one” before being assigned the same meaning as erethrin.
References ✧ SA/er; UT/153; VT42/10
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| erib | plural | ✧ UT/153 |
Elements
| er | “one, alone” | ✧ SA/er |
| -eb | “adjective suffix” |
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ✶erikwa > ereb | [erikwā] > [eripā] > [eripa] > [erepa] > [erep] > [ereb] | ✧ VT42/10 |
N. ereb adj. “isolated” (Category: Alone, Only)
References ✧ Ety/ERE, TOL²
Glosses
Elements
| *er | “one, alone” |
| -eb | “adjective suffix” |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶ereqa > ereb | [erekwa] > [erepa] > [erep] > [ereb] | ✧ Ety/ERE |
G. ereg adj. “alone, only” (Category: Alone, Only)
Reference ✧ GL/33 ✧ “alone, only”
Elements
| er | “one” | ✧ GL/32 |
| #-og | “adjectival suffix” | ✧ GL/33 (#-eg) |
G. erethrin adj. “isolated, solitary, lonely” (Category: Alone, Only)
References ✧ GL/33; LT1A/Tol Eressëa; PE13/93
Glosses
Variations
Changes
Elements
| ereth | “solitude, oneness, loneliness” | ✧ GL/32; LT1A/Tol Eressëa |
| #-(r)in | “adjective suffix” | ✧ GL/33 (#-rin) |
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