Spelled over a dozen different ways, this word is more likely to come from Latin ager – area, acre – than it is to come from “air”.  It’s not only the high nest of a raptor but in its second meaning is the collective noun for the brood of nestlings of such a bird.

• 06.088 and fell onto the rough platform of an eagle’s eyrie.
• 06.090 in his eyrie at night!
• 07.007 till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!’
• 17.064 from all the eyries of the North.
• 18.027 but most have gone back to their eyries.

I’m trying to parse the difference between enchant (verb) and incantation (noun).  “Enchanting” is the adjective.  “Enchantment” seems to be the noun of just as much lineage as “incantation“, both from the Latin root incantare – through French “enchanter” in this case and “incantation” in the other.  Hmmm.

To exert magical influence upon; to bewitch, lay under a spell. Also, to endow with magical powers or properties.

• 01.072 To seek the pale enchanted gold.
• 07.023 he is under no enchantment but his own.
• 07.107 in enchanted shape,
• 07.126 for I have heard that it carries enchantment
• 08.029 safe across the enchanted stream.
• 08.035 They had crossed the enchanted stream;
• 08.037 About four days from the enchanted stream
• 08.059 was so enchanting that,
• 08.130 and as the lights went out he fell like a stone enchanted.
• 12.007 when the hobbit crept through the enchanted door
• 12.015 and pierced with enchantment
• 12.098 But the enchanted desire of the hoard
• 13.020 drawn by its enchantment.

“enchant, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.

“enchantment, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.

This delightful word has clear cognates in Germanic and Romantic language families as well as Sanskrit.

• 12.096 made of five hundred emeralds
• 18.034 To the Elvenking he gave the emeralds of Girion,

“smaragd, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.