Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : gwidhren

ᴺS. !gwidhren adj. “adolescent, pre-adult” (Category: Child)

ᴺS. !gwidhren, adj. “adolescent, pre-adult” [created by Paul Strack] (Category: Child): G. calwed “flourishing, adolescent”

A neologism “adolescent” coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo to replace various Gnomish words of similar meaning, an adjectival form of gwîn “youth”.

Elements

S. gwîn

“youth”

G. hilwed adj. “adolescent” (Category: Child)

A set of similar words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “adolescent”, with variations {hildrin >>} hilwed, hithadrin and hilon, all based on the early root ᴱ√χili (GL/49). The last of these, hilon, might be a noun rather than an adjective.

References ✧ GL/49

Glosses

“adolescent” ✧ GL/49; GL/49 (hithadrin)

Variations

hilwed ✧ GL/49
hilon ✧ GL/49
hildrin ✧ GL/49
hithadrin ✧ GL/49

hithadrin “adolescent” = hilwed “adolescent” ✧ GL/49

Changes

hildrin >> hilwed “adolescent” ✧ GL/49

Elements

ᴱ√HILI	“*youth, offspring”	✧ GL/49 (χili)
#-wed	“adjective suffix”	✧ GL/49 (#-wed)

Derivations

< ᴱ√HILI “*youth, offspring” ✧ GL/49 (χili)