ᴺS. !gwanwas n. “the past, past days, olden times” (Category: Past, Ago)
A neologism for the “the past, past days, olden times” coined by Elaran, inspired by gwanwen “departed”. It refers to the past as a time period, as opposed to the past as a more abstract concept for which I would use [ᴺS.] gwenwi.
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ᴱN. #dimvorn n. “past ages” (Category: Past, Ago)
The word dimborn “the past, past days, olden times” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a combination of G. dim “former, past” and G. born “age” (GL/23, 30). In Gnomish Lexicon Slips it appeared as dimvorn but was deleted (PE13/112). Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. i dhimvorn “the past ages” (PE13/142).
References ✧ PE13/142
Inflections
| i dhimvorn | soft-mutation; d-mutation | “the past ages” | ✧ PE13/142 |
Elements
| dim | “bygone, past, ancient” | ✧ PE13/142 (dhim) | |
| born | “great age, age, period” | soft-mutation | ✧ PE13/142 (vorn) |