S. rîdh n. “sown field” (Category: Field for Cultivation)
A noun for a “sown field” in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) derived from primitive ✶reddā (PE19/91). The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. rîð “‘sown’, sown field, acre” also from primitive ᴹ✶reddā under the root ᴹ√RED “scatter, sow” (Ety/RED; EtyAC/RED). The form N. rîð did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/383), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne noted its existence in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/11).
Conceptual Development: There were several other “field” words in Tolkien’s earlier writings. G. garw “sown-field” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, also functioning as an adjective meaning “tilled” (GL/38). ᴱN. gwas “field” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/146).
References ✧ PE19/91-92
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| ✶reddā > rezdā > rîdh | [reddā] > [rezdā] > [rezda] > [rēda] > [rēða] > [rīða] > [rīð] | ✧ PE19/91 |
N. rîdh n. “‘sown’, sown field, acre” (Category: Field for Cultivation)
Reference ✧ EtyAC/RED ✧ rîð “‘sown’, sown field, acre”
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| ᴹ✶reddā/red-tā > rîð | [reddā] > [rezdā] > [rezda] > [reida] > [rīda] > [rīða] > [rīð] | ✧ EtyAC/RED |
ᴱN. gwas n. “field” (Category: Field for Cultivation)
References ✧ PE13/146
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| gwais | plural | ✧ PE13/146 |
G. garw n. and adj. “sown-field; tilled” (Category: Field for Cultivation)
References ✧ GL/38
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| garwin | plural | ✧ GL/38 |
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