Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : cim

ᴺS. [G.] cim n. “blade” (Category: Blade, Share)

ᴺS. [G.] cim, n. “blade” [created by Paul Strack] (Category: Blade, Share)

See G. †cim for discussion.

Derivations

< √KIM “edge, brink of”

G. †cim n. “blade” (Category: Blade, Share)

An (archaic) noun appearing as G. †cim “blade” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/26). The noun G. caf “blade” also appeared in the same document, but it was deleted (GL/24).

Neo-Sindarin: The root √KIM “edge, brink of” appeared in Tolkien’s writing of the 1960s, with derivatives like Q. címa “edge of a cutting weapon/tool” (PE22/149). Therefore, I think this Gnomish noun might be retained for purposes of Neo-Sindarin as ᴺS. cim “blade”, perhaps derived from primitive *kimbē. I would also assume this Neo-Sindarin word was not archaic.

References ✧ GL/26

Glosses

“blade” ✧ GL/26 (†cim)

Variations

†cim ✧ GL/26

√KIM “edge, brink of” might be a later manifestation of †cim “blade”

Inflections

gim

soft-mutation; g-mutation

✧ GL/26

Element In

G. thasgim “*razor, (lit.) shave-blade” ✧ GL/26

G. caf n. “blade”

See G. †cim for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/24 ✧ “blade”

Element In

G. cautha-² “to shave” ✧ GL/24 (cautha-)