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S. hîth n. “mist” (Category: Mist, Fog, Haze)

S. hîth, n. “mist” (Category: Mist, Fog, Haze)
N. mith² “white fog, wet mist”
G. usc “fog, mist”

The Sindarin word for “mist”, an element in many names, derived from the root √KHITH of the same meaning (SA/hîth; PE17/73).

Conceptual Development: N. hîth “mist” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s, already with the derivation given above (Ety/KHIS), though when Tolkien first defined the word, he first wrote (and then deleted) the gloss “fog” (EtyAC/KHIS). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien wrote hith (LR/364), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne confirmed that the actual form was hîth in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT45/22).

References ✧ RC/328; SA/hîth

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N. hîth n. “mist” (Category: Mist, Fog, Haze)

See S. hîth for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/KHIS; EtyAC/KHIS; TI/124

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ᴹ✶khīt(h)i > hîth [kʰītʰi] > [kʰītʰe] > [xītʰe] > [xīθe] > [xīθ] > [hīθ] ✧ Ety/KHIS