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S. serni n. “shingle, pebble bank” (Category: Rock, Stone)

S. serni, n. “shingle, pebble bank” (Category: Rock, Stone)
G. clogod “shingle beach”

A noun for a “shingle, pebble bank” in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s from primitive ✶sarniye, the basis for the river name S. Serni (VT42/11). Here the gloss “shingle” is used in the sense of a mass of smell pebbles rather than as a roofing tile. This word is an unusual example of a final -i in Sindarin, because the i was protected by the final e that was itself lost. Tolkien indicated it might instead be an adjective formation (“pebbly”?) from the (rare) adjective suffix -i derived from primitive ✶-īya, -ēya (VT42/10-11).

References ✧ UTI/Serni; VT42/10-11

Glosses

Elements

sarn “(small) stone, pebble; stony (place)” ✧ UTI/Serni; VT42/11 (sern)
-i “adjectival suffix” ✧ VT42/10

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

sarniye > Serni [sarnije] > [sarnīe] > [sernīe] > [sernī] > [serni] ✧ VT42/11